face the world from tyranny. the 80s and 90s. they will all be done. this is a good time. dwight eisenhower told his troops poised near the benches of normandy they were about to embark upon a great crusade. the eyes of the world are upon you. hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere. the company was brave allies and brothers in arms on the front. they will bring about the destruction of german war machine. the elimination of the nazi tyranny over the oppressed people of europe and security for ourselves in a free world. ronald reagan called them the

men who took the cliffs. the champions who helped free a continent. the heroes who helped end war. those men are now our heroes forever a part of the greatness of america. when we gather sins for thanksgiving let us be grateful for the blessings of america and the sacrifices of those who built it and let it to us. my father was doing his part fighting the nazis working as a civil servant in western nevada. when i was 11 years old, his death came after a long and painful battle with lung disease. and hazardous chemicals and toxic fumes.

even in this end my dad struggled for breath, he never regretted serving his country and i am proud to tell you of his patriotism. i am also proud, the most important mentor of my life was my mother. i know what it is like to be a single mom struggling to make ends meet. i saw my mother doodad as of my father died. she never worked outside the home but my mother knew she had to support her family. my brother and me. with meager savings. i worked side by side with her until the time she sold it when i was 20 years old. really a classroom for me. when i learned the importance of

hard work, responsibility, honesty, integrity and yes, courage from my mother's example. i think about my mother every day especially since i was challenged with the opportunity to become governor of arizona. i see a challenge because i inherited the worst state budget deficit in the nation. i was up to the challenge. i am a problem solver. i made a lot of painful decisions. some still weigh heavily on my heart. expenditures the down 20%. the number of state employees is down 15% and state employees including me took a 5% pay cut during the crisis but you know what? we now have a balanced budget and a positive cash balance for

the first time in years. [applause] >> our state government is smaller. our state government is more efficient. our state government is focused on the future. arizona is poised to move into our second century with the creation of a new model to advance our economy. the arizona commerce authority of the public/private entity focused solely on quality job retention and improvement. meanwhile, education in arizona is being transformed. is the transformation supported by education and business leaders. all across america. called arizona ready. in gauge in families across the state to take charge of children's education and accept

more. these reform initiatives include adoption of higher academic standards and elimination of teacher tenure. they include employment policies that prohibit giving retention priority to teachers based on seniority and approve instructions so that they can be held accountable for their results. now fixing the nation will not be easy. however, if there's one thing i learned from my mother in my years of public service it is that life is about choices. doing the right thing almost always means doing the hard thing.

choosing what is tough over what is tempting. choosing the truthful over the false. speaking about choices, voters had before the 1984 election, president ronald reagan said and i quote, the choices this year are not just between two different personalities or between 3 to political parties but between two visions of the future. their government of pessimism, fear and limits, and hope, confidence and growth. it seems to me different visions of the future. we face increasing economic and military challenges and yet we

have a president more inclined to apologize for america than uphold the principles, we have a president has a vision to class warfare, calculated politics of envy and cynical appeal to racial grievance. and a call for stability. we confront persistent economic instability. and yet we have a president who has more big government excess that triggered it. what should bother us most is we have a president who suggests that america is not an exceptional nation.

imagine. what other countries sent its finest young men and women to fight on a distant battlefields for justice and peace? and yet rose not to conquer the protect. what other nation has acted not to dominate but to liberate? we are an exceptional nation, all right. [applause] >> written in blood and sacrifice of american patriots and their families. president obama doesn't have much in common with ronald reagan. the difference between the two men is fairly simple. was a long to spread the wealth.

the other to spread freedom. in my book "scorpions for breakfast" i tell of my meeting with president obama in the oval office. one 9 look him in the eye and i told him i didn't want to talk about his so-called comprehensive immigration reform. our border with out of control. i stand here today aiming to make a case on the subject of america's border with mexico and immigration policy. i know my words will be distorted by those who disagree. my opponents have already painted me as hardest and and compassionate. they are wrong. my record, my life, how long the critics are.

it has nothing to do with skin color, nothing to do with extremism. instead it is rooted in freedom. it shares the spirit of our founding fathers request to form a more perfect union leaders will establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty. we must secure arizona's and america's southern border. that is my true. the key power citizens safe. we secure our border because we are a nation of laws. we must secure our borders to secure our future relationship with mexico. there is no other choice, know better option, no next step to

truth. there are those in washington who will tell us from 3,000 miles away, our border is more secure than ever. tell that to the survivors and friends of a dedicated community minded man shot to death on the same ranch his family called home for 100 years. tells that to the friends and relatives of brave and noble patrol agent brian kerri, a victim of a border gang that was alarmed by our own federal government allowing guns to be shipped into mexico in the scandalous fast and furious operation. tell that to the arizona who wake of to find rage in progress or witness high-speed chases on our freeways and neighborhoods

or spend hours in an overburden the emergency room saturday night while waiting and consoling a suffering child. tell that to our taxpayers at the expense of federal prison cells overflowing with more than 630,000 illegal alien felons at a cost of more than $1.6 billion this year. those are the facts, plain and simple. our opponent, self-styled do-gooder's try to bury them. they hate and denounce. to disagree with them i have learned is to suffer incredible verbal abuse. let me assure you i can live with those consequences because i believe in the truth, i believe in taking action to

protect our hard won freedom. i sometimes wonder whether the present time was inevitable and whether in fact the struggle will make us stronger. you will see it obscured in our left tilted the media but i believe the american people like taking this in right now and moving to correct the course. the 2010 election was historic and consequential and if we continue to pull together and work hard there is going to be another like it in a year from now. [applause] if >> when i was here in february with president reagan's birthday party senator john danforth

described ronald reagan as an example of someone who lived the life given to him. on a lamp stand, loft on himself but on america and into the world. it is ronald reagan's america that is a special city on a hill. i believe it is in that shining city we might meet ronald reagan again one day and be able to take his hand and thank him for the nation he preserved for us. as a western governor let me close with a famous prophecy of an english poet who margaret thatcher quoted ronald reagan as he headed to his california ranch in his retirement. not by the eastern window when they might comes comes into light. when the sun climbs slowly, how

slowly but west would look the land is bright. thank you and may god bless you and your families and always bless the united states of america. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you so very much. [applause]

>> we have time for a few questions. the governor will be signing books until we get one. i can just ask one favor before u.s. your question if you raise your hand. we have a staff in each of the aisles. will of your hand and give you a microphone and introduce yourself. right here. >> i am john from burbank. i was wondering if there was any possibility of you using different sources to prosecute some of the people involved in fast and furious. [applause] >> first to find the details. the investigation is going on. it was handled on the federal level. i will tell you as you all know, of course we are getting our budgets under control. we don't have a lot of money but

certainly persons will be held accountable for what has taken place in arizona. and america. >> over here. >> hello. i just want to thank you for 1070. i know you have a recent press all the way to the supreme court. would you consider your championing of the immigration issue within the gop and other governors? who are facing the same situation arizona faces? >> each state we believe certainly in the new federalism where our state has all the rights that we're all doing it together, certainly what america is facing and i had some many governors not only close to the western area of america but throughout that have been very

supportive and we reach out and support them and i am sure if we get sins sins that it will be a national movement. i am really looking forward to this next election and it will count on a lot of people and if we see an exceptional election year in 2012 we might have the battle won. [applause] >> i am victor. my impression of the current administration is their belief system is this is an unfair world and the only way to get ahead is somebody else to accomplish something. there was a recent statement, part of the administration that as you said earlier america has lost an exceptional demand specialists. the ten are are in concert with each other. you can't have one or the other at the same time.

if you were running things what would be some things to turn the country and around somewhat effectively? >> first and foremost we have to remember -- we all know that america is all about freedom. i believe so strongly and every president and every administration should look to the states and give them the federal responsibility given to them in the constitution and i believe the federal government should have a strong defense. i see complete division between the federal government and state government and -- [laughter] -- the federal government cannot do at all. we don't want them. we know better in our state what is best for our people than the federal government knows 3,000 miles away from us but they keep inflicting upon us -- this administration continues to continually mandate mandates.

i say no way. not under any circumstances will we do that. we hear from every governor, republican and democrat, get the government out of our lives. we have to get our health situation under control and it certainly isn't obamacare. [applause] >> arizona was one of the state that led the charge and we will continue to do what we believe is right. we get back to the principles of what this country was founded on america will be that great country that we know so well. that exceptional country we have fought for and we need to maintain and you and i and everyone in america fighting hard for the truth. i will again tell you doing the

right thing almost always means doing the hard thing but americans are up to it. [applause] >> i am -- that don't have a specific question but you are the reason i got involved locally in politics. i started writing for the reagan report and my video show. i was terrified in california, the role it played. after i saw you standing next to that sign that said in america saying stay out, is dangerous in our own country. when i saw you standing up to obama and did back down i kept thinking she can't keep going like this. she is going to give in and chicken out and you never did.

all you wanted was to defend your own state. you are such an inspiration to me and i can shut up any more. i never will again. [applause] >> thank you so very much. the republican party needs -- i so much appreciate your comments. it is amazing when you think of our federal government coming in to my state and putting signs in my desert where we walk and i take saying travel at your own risk and if you see anything call 911. it is not a federal issue. who is answering those phone calls on 911? that is not protecting my state. that is flat out surrender.

[applause] >> coming here and being with all of you tonight is like being in a state court in the storm. if we don't come together and end on our principles and get the right people elected where are we going to be? we will have no one to blame for ourselves. [applause] >> i can't see [talking over each other] >> thank you. an honor to be here. i am tony. just curious if you plan to get yourself -- generally make an endorsement for the nomination. >> i have been asked that by lot of people. i have been traveling around the

united states and people have been calling and were you going to do? i keeps a i am going to wait until i have my debate in arizona which we are working on and hopefully have some really fine questions answered that will satisfy me. i think we have a great bunch of candidates to stand-up and share with us what they believe they can do for this great country of ours. i am going to hold out and wait until i am totally satisfied to what their answers are in regards to our jobs and the economy and in regards to what they are going to do about our defense and how are they going to handle health care and water they going to do about illegal immigrants. [applause] >> i will tell you it is going

to take this all again -- i can't say much more because i have been a grass-roots worker for the republican party for probably 45 years. i believe strongly in our principles and philosophy. i won't stop. i don't want to stop. jan hack asking people to participate so that we can work collectively together across the united states to get the right people into the right offices to protect us and our principles. [applause] >> senators continue their recess this week. we are featuring a booktv weekend programs in prime time on c-span2. discussions about a writer's life that a:00 eastern, sonya sanchez discuss their eyes are watching god. after 9:30 charles shields on

his book about kurt vonnegut and at 10:15 p.m. eastern a loaded joseph heller's novel catch-22 with christopher buckley. the book's editor robert gottlieb and the director of the film version. booktv in prime time this week on c-span2. >> several live events to tell you about on c-span2. the national network convention will hear about the criminal justice system from attorney-general eric holder and reverend al sharpton. the major league baseball association speaking and collective bargaining and owners labor agreements. this evening the supreme court historical society will mark the 30th anniversary of san read a o'connor's appointment to the

supreme court joined by three justices currently on the court. ruth debater ginsberg and elena kagan live at 6:30 eastern. >> april 13th, 1912, >> caller: hundred perished on a ship called unsinkable. >> the look of bills were sounded. the look out cited an iceberg and struck the bells and the crows nest three times which is a warning saying there's an object ahead. it doesn't say what kind of options. what the lookout did after they struck the bill is went to the telephone and called down to the officer on the bridge to tell them what it is that they saw. when the film was finally answered the entire conversation was what do you see? response was iceberg right ahead. response from the officer was

thank you. >> samuel halpern on the truth and myth of that night at 4:00 eastern. part of american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> now a debate over civil liberties and the role of the aclu. this forum, benjamin cardozo law school with health care, same-sex marriage and national security. we will show you as much as we can enjoy our live event at 9:00 eastern. >> we had a grander larger subject tonight as soon as i sat down in this chair. i remember the feeling last year

and is the helm of the starship enterprise panel here. i do want to thank jean mathew dillard and my friend john donna kelley for putting this together and inviting me. i am on live television all the time and people always ask me if i get nervous. the answer is no. two things in life make me nervous. one is coaching ethan allen ecology. college. that can only go wrong. that can only go back and did. the other thing that makes me nervous is walking into a law school. it is a long story but i went to law school at long time ago for two years. i won't bore you with the details. i never finished. things worked out okay. i walk-in and this was at berkeley, i was out very few weeks ago visi