think that he was committed as a strong supporter of labor although not an on critical one. he was also very careful on civil rights as i mentioned and was very politically attuned. i don't really feel like i'm quite -- i read a lot about the presidency but the final view on what were the main political goals of john f. kennedy that will be the next book but it's a great question. a really is an important one. >> thank you so much for the great presentation. i have more of a general question from your presentation it seems like jfk became a president through some kind of a

predetermined pass rather than any success in the senate. would you agree with that opinion? in the success and not much for the election but it was part of the ad that he was going through the final rule. >> i do think the senate changed him and transformed him and i do think he developed expertise in areas he had not before and he did a kind of a deep dive on some complicated issues so it was like an advanced graduate school from kennedy and i think that he did use his senate years to learn more and he kind of form a political identity in which he presented himself as both a modern male politician, the young guest candidate but also someone who was very familiar with the american history and understood its traditions and was very steep in american history.

so i think that he put together a very powerful political presence that was a force, but i think it does raise profound -- what are the kind of ironies about the political system seems to be that the times that you are most elected may not be the times that you are most ready to be president. whether it was jfk or president obama or another four or six years in the senate might have done them good but i think they both realize, you know, clearly that additional time would not make them more politically viable, so they had to sort of decide this is my time. kennedy often said i looker now that everyone else that this fighting and i am just as qualified as they are and so that was sort of his assessment. so, thank you. >> that's fascinating --

>> can you order them on amazon? >> anno salon.com yes. my publisher is paul macmillian and you can purchase it from them. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you. you can >> you are watching booktv, nonfiction authors and books every weekend on c-span2. >> you are watching booktv.atch. next, newt gingrich argues thate we are at the dawn of the age on great breakthrough breakthroughn technology, medicine, transportation and other fields, ndt warns that this new age maya not be reached if we allow the a government and other gatekeepers to get in the way. this is about an hour and 10.

minutes. >> one thing i will give sandy, he knows how to have an entrance.ve callista and i both want to wologize because we were on ane airplane which is going to land with plenty of time and they th learned this from the airplane wasn't going to leave. [laughter] w and i do want to say a brief commercial for american airlines commercial for american airlines. it was not fair airplane, but instead of flying direct from washington they have a plane through dallas and they went overboard to get us here, make the connections. we had a barely legal connection in dallas. they did everything they could to be helpful. our luggage didn't make the connection so it is on the way here now. then we had a few more complications. we apologize running late. for those of you in the reception, always enjoy having a chance to see and hope we can

get a picture or say something out from later on. i don't think i realized it had been 12 times the we had been here. it is always meant a lot of me to come here. first presidential campaign i ever got involved in as a volunteer was the nixon lodge campaign in 1960 and for those who may sometimes despair of republicans in california i might point out in georgia in 1960 the number of people who were willing to publicly campaign for richard nixon or for any republican was a remarkably small number. we had no state legislative offices outside the mountains and the seats we had in the mountains were a function of the civil war. you can understand my whole career has been a series of climbing mountains and that was one of the longest political nights of my life, listening as

the democrats stole texas and illinois, remarkably close election. i always come out here with a lot of different emotions. talk about american exceptionalism, really intrigued -- i will talk a little bit about -- this is aimed at teaching 4 to 8-year-olds about american history, something which we tragically find more young people are not learning in school, as they need help learning it. i will talk briefly about lincoln and the 150st anniversary, what may have been one of the most important speeches in american history and one of the most important speeches in american history, described a standard we should meet and talk about breakout which in some ways is the culmination of my 55 years going

back to 1958. my dad was stationed in france, convinced me that somebody had to take responsibility from understanding what america had to do, and explain it to the american people to give you permission to do it and implement it if they gave you permission. it is a very important model and "breakout" is the most important book i have written because it says to adults and the children here is how we got to be an exceptional nation. i say to adults here is how we can continue to be an exceptional nation. if you do think it is important i hope you will use facebook and twitter and e-mail addresses and what have you and try to spread the word. the more people telling each other, the better off they will be because the scale of this change i will describe can only

come from the grass roots and never from sacramento, never from washington. it is impossible to ask bureaucrats and politicians and lobbyists to get together to voluntarily disarm and we won't do it. the only way to get change on that scale is to run over them by arousing the american people when they have no choice. and republican congressman fred upton had a terrific idea. [applause] >> we did a book and a movie about ronald reagan. a great line where reagan says his job was to shows light to the american people so it would turn up the heat on congress. at -- "breakout" is in that tradition, we get enough americans to decide this is the right direction with able get their political figures to follow. it is a function of figuring out where it is going and try to get

in it. as opposed to reading it. alice the elephant is a time traveling pachyderm who is not a republican pachyderm. he is a 4 to 8-year-old universal pachyderm at costco saturday signing books and if you had seen these little kids, somebody who plays at us, seen those little kids running up to as you would understand exactly why she invented this character but her goal has been first, to talk about all of american history and then to talk about the colonial period andean yankee doodle dandy to talk about the american revolution and is already beginning to work on a book for next year which will be called from sea to shining sea, helping lewis and clark go to the pacific. her goal, this is by the way very hard, "breakout" is my 27th

book, watching her right the yellow ceres, have to take facts, we want our history books to be factual, we have a very useful model. take a set of facts, 4 to 8-year-olds, when you have to describe them in rhyme cities easy for them to remember and with the help of her terrific artist, you have got to have the scene which explains what the rhyme is describing. each of her page sections is the equivalent of one of my chapters. i didn't know this. it turned out to be really important but it is extraordinarily important that young americans learn why we are in fact an exceptional nation.

[applause] >> it is interesting and very appropriate to talk about yankee doodle dandy for a second. the american revolution, describing the declaration of independence and what makes tomorrow's anniversary of lincoln's speech so special is it is at gettysburg in a two minutes speech, lincoln really reunites the country with the declaration of independence. for most of our first hundred years or 80 years of history the constitution had been the dominant document, the document which framed our law and people looked at in terms of what does it mean to be an american and

how to restructure this complex country? lincoln comes along, and lincoln says the constitution defines the structure of who we are but the declaration of independence describes the spirit of who we are. it is important in the current presidency, and president obama did not go -- because there's almost nothing in his current pattern which would be worthy of being near abraham lincoln. [applause] >> i don't want to be partisan but i do think it is very important to look in context, lincoln was all about the rule of law.

somebody who had grown up very poor who had only had a year-and-a-half of schooling, literally learned how to read by the light of a fireplace because his family couldn't afford candles and lincoln understood it is the rule of law which protect the weak. it is the rule of law which protects the average person. without the rule of law it is the predators, the vicious and a powerful. so he saw what we were fighting over, as the very essence of freedom. whether or not freedom would survive. egos -- the war had gotten much longer, much bloodier, much more difficult than anybody expected. it was a 30 to 90 day war, people thought. and lincoln is having to explain

to the north, why is it worth the struggle and pain? gettysburg was the bloodiest battle of the war, three days, enormous number of casualties on both sides and lincoln is having to talk to be bland in virtually every village in america a family lost somebody. he is going to run for reelection. nobody had been reelected since andrew jackson. lincoln is going to run for reelection having failed to win the war. go back and read the gettysburg address as a campaign document because he is having to reach out to people and say to them do not let your son or your cousin or your nephew have died in vain. don't flinch, don't back off because this is central to the future of the human race.

it is an important thing. this is what candidly made the stunning -- dishonesty of president obama about yes, you can keep your policy with which we now know he said at least 39 times on video tape commack least 39 times. you can't have a government of the people, lincoln is clever with this. supposedly talking with great lincoln experts and i have written a novel on gettysburg, jackson got dressed up in an 1860s outfit, i was a congressman, the congressman's wife, appeared at one of the others as a housewife whose house has become a hospital, she says some hostile things to the soldiers about having brought these 4 dying guys into her home but spent a lot of time looking at gettysburg and being in

gettysburg. you have to understand that lincoln apparently said government of the people, by the people, for the people and to him it meant the very heart of american exceptionalism. that we are endow by our creator with certain inalienable rights among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. that is why if you can't have an honest debate and honest conversation you can't have an executive officer who you can believe in you begin to undermine the whole system. we were teetering right at the edge of a pattern of such an ending lawlessness, waving laws, waiving rules, picking winners and losers, fundamentally antithetical to the entire

american experience. every american tomorrow taking a minute to read the gettysburg address, and hopefully that will lead them to go back and read the preamble to the declaration of independence, to be reminded what does it mean to be an american, and it is in that context that i set out to write "breakout" because it struck me we are mired down in sacramento, frankly most of the city and county governments, most of our school boards, and washington d.c. we are mired down in such petty, destructive, negative politics, surrounded by campaigns of such an ending viciousness and dishonesty, the entire fabric of our system is at stake. we need to break out from this moment of american history.

this is truly what makes this to me one of the most extraordinary periods in american history. everywhere you go, there are hard-working, intelligent people who were pioneers of the future, inventing things in energy, inventing things in transportation, inventing things in learning, inventing things in going into space, inventing things in beam dramatically more effective, and you go around and say show me the most interesting things that are happening right here in california. a self driving car which covered over 600,000 miles given where we came down today i am not sure how many hours that took. [laughter] >> 600,000 miles it has been in one accident and was remanded by human him. ..

truck. 24 from a self driving trucks to a mine in western australia which is saving a million dollars a year kirkuk. because it goes down into the mind, gets filled up, goes up, drops the material off, goes back down into the mind. the truck goes 24/7 minus maintenance and filling up with diesel fuel. different world. the army is actually in oshkosh, wisconsin, working with the manufacture to design army trucks that would be self driving because then if you hit a roadside bomb you don't hurt anybody. one more effort to try to figur out how can we risk fewer americans on the battlefield. peacings a but these things are coming down the road.ough on energy, of course with a breakthrough in hydraulic

fracturing and then placli horizontally, you take a place like north dakota which went from 800 million barrels of2 to reserves in 2002, to over 24 billion today, and rising.as north dakota has such a high goe unemployment rate, wages have gone up 50% in the last eight pa years. and mcdonald's now pays a bonus if you'll sign up to work. conservative answer to income and equality. we would like everybody to rise up. we're not in the business of tearing down. we should be in the business of helping every person rise up. and north dakota is a pretty good case study. if the federal government were actually encouraging it. we would be astonished how many additional jobs you would be creating right now. we are -- this year the largest gas producer in the world by 2015 we'll be the largest oil producer in the world.

that's an enormous shift of power away from russia and the middle east. it increase our national security. but creates hundreds of thousand of new jobs. it lowers the price of energy. natural gas today is three times as expensive in china as in the united states. and that just affects all the manufacturing cost, you see also ripple effect are pretty remarkable. the system called regenerative medicine, which is almost like science fiction. regenerative medicine when they take your cells and they grow a large number of them. and they then take 3-d prints in the most recent version and they print out the organ you need. if you need a kidney, they can print out a heart. if you need a heart print out a heart. doctor whose specialty is growing hearts. you'll see in a few years.

remember the young lay i did who had a hard time getting a lung transplant because she was too young. ten years from now, if we're smart. if we encourage this. ten years from now there will be no waiting lines. you'll retransplant. you don't reject you. so the knelt effect -- it's important. what it means is if you don't take any of the antirejection medicines. you increase the likelihood of success, eliminate waiting lists. it's a different world. number one problem food and drug administration. virtually every regenerative scientist i talk to almost certainly have to take their product to singapore, china, or europe because the fda is hopeless. if give use a sense what we talk about the pioneer of the future. then we talk about prison guards of the past.

and imagine the 1840s and we had government in the modern format. the stage coaches pass a law to say that railroad could not go faster than a horse. [laughter] because it's an unfair competitive advantage. [laughter] you think i'm exaggerating. in the 1920s the newspaper got it illegal to have radio news. there was a brief period when you could not legally have radio news. because we have people protect their own self-interest. very few people go out voluntarily and give their interest up for the greater good. i hear a constant tension of the pioneer of the future and the prison guards of the past. one of the areas is going to become the most fascinating is online learning. this is being streamed on youtube, for example, tonight. well, one of my favorite

examples is here in california. again, when you talk about pioneer of the future. just as henry ford was amazing and edison was amazing, the wright brothers were amazing. the people wandering around today were amazing. one is a guy named intan shan. he's german but now an american. he wanted to come to an entrepreneurial, open society where he could do exciting things but he thought you couldn't -- it was too stuffy, too closed to new ideas. he started working on artificial intelligence at carnegie. he participated in the earliest experiments that building a self-driving car as a project that research project agency set up a prize. they didn't go very far. they were in the mo vaf -- mohave cease earth. he moved to google.

he decided he would teach a course on advanced computing. and he and the vice president of research for google announced they were going to hold the future course at stanford and make it available online. they had 400 students in the classroom. they had 151,000 sign up. drove the stanford administration crazy, was how do you regulate it? and how do you know they are getting a stanford-quality course. why aren't they paying tuition? [laughter] they had -- i don't know the exact number. i think it was 43,000 completed the course. on the final exam, the highest-rated student in the course, in the stanford class, was number 441. that is 440 people not in the class got a higher score on the final than the best student at stanford in the class.

i saw him after the experiment was over and said it was humbling. he said he always thought he was a great lecturer and always loved his lectures. he suddenly discovered if you took the online course, which was a problem-based course, you did better than if you spent the same amount of time listening to lectures. now, he then from took from that and found a firm awe disty with the a gone. it's a good example of the pioneer of the future. a stated goal of udac blank is 90% reduction in cost. and so recently there amounts to georgia tech, the causety was going to take a 70,000 residential master degree in advanced computing. offered the master's degree online for $7,000.

first 77 all, think about what it does to student loans. second, if you're an adult and this is a class you really need but you live in minnesota or live in southern california, and your not going move to georgia tech, you can now take it in the morning, on the weekend, while you're on vacation. all of a sudden, we have begun to liberate you from the professor's schedule. most education is stunningly unefficient. the course will be offered from 10:20 to 1130 at the convenience of the professor three days a week. that's not -- that's the world is going rapidly disappear despite every effort of the prison guard of the university system to block it. the most famous -- you can look it up yourself. i'm not making it up. go look up duo lingo. it's a free sight that teaches

seven different languages. it raises an interesting question about the future of language education. it raises the question about ability to teach literacy on the smartphone. so nobody today who is ill literate has an excuse. we had a huge problem in detroit. the illiteracy rate is 47%. it's an enormous problem. we're never going have it fixed if we have literacy teachers from 5:00 to 7:00 two nights a week. you think about new structure of learning. the most famous is the khan academy. it's an financier who is doing well. he had nephews not doing well in math. he did six to eight minute youtube videos explaining one math problem at the time. one of the things they discovered very early on if he

talked directly to them live, they learned less. if he taped a video and sent it, partially because the pressure. partly because they could repeating it until they got it. which you can't -- it's hard to ask human being three, four, five, six, times. you get frustrated, they get frustrated, you get embarrassed, they get angry. if it is taped they don't care how long they watch it. that's what duo lingo. they take it eight times because they can't quite get. it the computer never minds. it doesn't say "boy, you're stupid." todayed at the khan academy 3,000 hours of material and they get 10 million visitors a month. now, i'm suggesting we're at the age of breakthrough. this san obvious example. every state should adopt a law, that says if you need

unemployment compensation, you have to sign up for online learning because we will pay to help you improve yourself. [cheering and applause] think about it's a perfect example of what i mean by breakout. the morning you say we're no longer going subsidize bass fishing and deer hunts. if you can't get a job -- they did it in the old conservativism. they said why don't we abolish it? well, you're not going abolish it. it's not plausible. you never get the votes. in the process you sound like you don't care what happens to the people. if you say to them, you know, i care about you. i care enough about you i want you to acquire new skills so you can get a better job. that's the answer to the crisis of the middle class. unless you upgrade our skill level as a country, you're not going to upgrade our income level.

what i did, i took $100 billion a year we've been throwing away and turn to the largest adult job training program in the american history without spending nymph your money. i suspect by, by the way, the morning you decided to something for it you'll see a substantial drop in the number of people taking unemployment compensation. because they have to work they might as well work. [laughter] and i think that will leave you if you can't makes work, after all, we have already paid for it. he said you're right, i can't make you work. you don't have to work. but we don't have any extra

margin for a brand new colony. if you don't work, there won't be any food for you. don't worry about it. you're right. luckily there weren't enough lawyers that the point for it them to get an injunction. [laughter] [cheering and applause] just a small -- let me carry you one other area. which, frankly, drives me nuts. i've been on this now for almost 20 years. i'll say to frame this for a second. i'm the only speaker of the house in your lifetime to help create four conservative balance budgets. [cheering and applause] i'm manhattan we adopt a balance budget as one of our goals. [applause]

that uses all the modern capabilities we've got. that's number one. because you can't avoid it. two, is this economy the best we can do? or are we going break tout pioneer of the future and liberating us once gone be the most dynamic, full-employment, society in the world. three, are we continue to steal from our children and grandchildren. or is it time to get to a balanced budget by fundmently changing the government? and the other issue, which i list as a half issue. it's not relevant right now every day but could bite us at any time. the current policy weakness

confusion really a very reliable national security policy? or is the world dangerous in doing in a more coherent form of national security policy. that's not on the front burner right now. unfortunately in the world you remember 9/11 that can get on the front burner every morning. notice i didn't say it should be the republican campaign. it should be the national conversation. every democrat, every republican, every independent, every libertarian, every socialist. this is really the best you think american ask -- can do? let me put it in context. you'll see why some grow inpatient with my friends in washington. recently the internal revenue service announced that it sent $4 billion last year to crooks. these are on refunds inspect is

your refund for your taxes. when i say crooks, they sent 585 checks to one address in singapore. [laughter] they sent over 850 checks to one address in lithuania. now, on one level you have to ask yourself, how you ended up with a government so mindless and so incompetent that it could cothis. $4 billion isn't big money, if you had to choose between giving it away to crooks in lit lithuania and singapore or spending it at national institute of research. i argue it would be dramatically better to spend on research. i know, this is a bold, "outside the box" unfair, you know, -- [laughter] it drives me crazy, the congress is, to the best of my knowledge,

no serious earth to think this through. i'm writing a paper right now i'm going to callover" sight hearings." a group of senators get together, senators or house member and they pontificate for the opening hour. it's really bad. i can't believe how bad it is. i'm embarrassed. then the bureaucrats come in and say, well, this is not quite as bad as it seems. it is pretty bad. we feel bad about how bad it is. we want you to know we take full responsibility for how bad it is. which has no meaning because we have lifetime jobs. we are happy for you to beat up on us for awhile if it means you feel better and we can continue to go whatever we were doing that was stupid before we came down here. nothing is going change anyway. and the congressmen say it's a highly meaningful hearing and i'm confident -- isn't it what you have watched for most of your lives [laughter] here is how a foresight hearing

go. you spent the first part of it describing what your -- you're trying to accomplish. for example, an irs system refund accuracy level to american express, visa, or mastercard. another "outside the box goal "these are constitutions that are alive. you can measure them. the second part, you bring in people who do it well. i list the three companies, for example. and, you know, i tell people, one of the great virtue of mcdonald and a similar constitution is a trainer of young people. they are crazy to attack working at mcdonalds. it is the first time young kids encounter the idea that the ak sit -- accuracy you have to have on the cash rebellinger is higher than 70%. [laughter] that 70% may be passing in

school because it has no real meaning in the real world. in the real world, they would like to you to be, say 100%. [laughter] this isn't an enormous shock and it's become a bigger shock the worse the schools have been. all of a sudden the kids have gone you mean every day? [laughter] you mean the change has to be accurate for every customer? can't you consult some slack. what if i can only do nine out of ten. don't you like me? this is kind of the problem, you know, with the federal government. we know how to solve this. you solve it by replacing the current bureaucratic structure. not by reforming it. it's 120-year model that doesn't work anymore. it may never have worked. it simply doesn't work now.

it's a model based on paper. so you have all the nice bureaucrats sitting around with the paper while all the crooks are side -- sitting around with ipad. you have a second grade virtue, but the crooks work after 5:00. [laughter] i first learned that from my best friend in high school. was a very successful tax lawyer. and i said, what is the key to what you do? he said i work later. he said the irs will issue a rule and it's a fairly less than think process to issue a rule. by the time they had the comment period and they have finalized the rule, i will have found a new loophole for my client to get around the rules. because i'll stay late enough at night i will figure it out and it will take them three years to discover the loophole i have found. by the time they issue the new rule. i will have found a new loophole. he said i make a lot of money

because my client thinks it's cool. almost every american corporation believes not paying the federal government is good thing. and frankly, almost every american believes not paying the federal government. i've had few people rush in and say i feel so bad. could i give them more? [laughter] so the second phase would be to bring in people who do it well. the third phos would be would be in a calm way to bring in the people currently in charge and say explain the system. this is a system -- this is what i learned from taking the tutorial of the father of the quality movement. not about bad people. these are decent people in a terrible system. tell me what the system is.

he began to explain the campaign could be effective because they weren't in the federal government. this is the most interesting thing that obama has said in a philosophical level over the most interesting thing he said, period, he never realized that buying insurance is hard. [laughter] and i sad -- said at the time, if you're 52 years old and just now learning that buying insurance is complicated, maybe you should

have tried to redo the entire country. [laughter] [applause] but he said two other things. the one press conference, when he was clearly totally rattled and it's almost painful the the washington post put up six pictures of different images between defeat, dismay, disillusion, and whatever the other words are. on a personal level is fascinating. he said, gee, he didn't realize it would be more complicated to go kayak or go on ebay or amazon . the founders of google supported him. the founders of facebook supported him.

the idea he didn't bring in a bunch of them two or three years ago and say how hard do you think it would be to design a highly complex system that requires do you give them the personal information to tell them the subsidize so they never know the real cost because they would be really mad. [laughter] apparently nobody who was competent. it's harder than amazon. it's not fair comparison. and then the last piece was, he said that he really did believe after the last week that it was going work. [laughter] two possibilities. a, if he's that out of touch with reality about the largest single domestic project, what grow think he understands about iran? [laughter] or north korea. and b, if this thing is as big as a mess as it seems to be, how

come no one has been fired. [applause] [laughter] [applause] if you want to talk about institutionalizing competence, it's having people fail on a grand scam and keeping them. it sends a signal there are no standards of matter, what matters is friendship and favoritism. this is an enormous, enormous problem. but the strategically bigger thing he said, and he goes on about three or four sentences on it. he says, you know, setting up an i. t. program was easy because we didn't have the federal regulations. [laughter] and then he goes on length at the federal -- the administration vimed to agree with him. and i told someone one of his assistants a couple of weeks ago it's actually a great excuse to look at all the federal

procurement regulations. if you continue get the f35 cost overrun they are as big as scandal of obamacare but they don't get the same level of coverage. we have a defense department that has to have a minimum of $200 billion a year. in every place you turn in the federal government, our estimation in medicare and medicaid we have between 70 and 1 -- $110 billion. it begins to be real money on a big scale and sickens the whole system. because you look around and say i could be an honest doctor or could be rich. i think i'll rip off the government for a few months. it's really dangerous to the fabric of our society. but there's a secondary part. it's nobody was fast enough to ask which will be coming up over and over. i should mention in pationz i will be raising raising it on cross fire for anyone who would like to watch.

it's on cnn 6:30 eastern time, five nights a week. [laughter] [applause] here is the question, i want to ask the supporters every time they come on board. if the federal government procurement system is a total mess, you couldn't get a website right. why would you think you can run the health system? because it's vastly more -- the website is easy. deciding what person gets kidney transplant, deciding who gets the right cancer treatment. these are not decisions you want made in washington that people who can't get a website up. and i think it may turn out obamacare may be one of the great trainer of conservativism in american history. we might a generation -- [applause] i think i'm allowed to take questions unless somebody tells me i can't.

i want do you understand how deeply i feel this. if all we cois being negative. if all we do is take advantage of every mistake they take. we will have totally failed to serve the country. the fact is, you need a positive model breakout to replace the prison guards. you need a vision of a dramatically better future to organize our energies and to get us moving forward again. and we have to have a conservative movement, which it dedicated to knitting together all the pioneer of the future. dedicating to developing an exciting sense of an american future. and dedicated to actually building a program so when we know what we're doing. and i'm tired of personality oriented campaigns dominated by negative attack ads whose net as a result nothing positive happens for america. and i wrote "breakout: pioneers of the future, preison guards of the past, and the epic battle that will decide america's fate"

as a starting point to have a conversation for the next few years to say to people, when you run to a politician ask them what they're for. they don't let government obamacare. what is the replacement. you don't like the current deficit spending fine. how do you get to a balanced budget. the current economy, what are you going get us to grow to 5 or 6%. coming out of the deep recession we are doing 5 or 6% a year. we pull people back to the middle class, solving a lot of our problem by the sheer dynamic of a recovery. we are getting none of that right now. so tell me what you're for. and i've been through all too many campaigns in the last 15 years that have been negative, petty, personality-oriented and i don't think they serve the country well. i don't think they solve our problems that approach. i hope you will read "breakout: pioneers of the future, preison guards of the past, and the epic battle that will decide america's fate." if you agree it's an important concept and if we can get people

to think about the pioneer of the future and prison guards of the past. we can begin a dialogue that is future-past and very powerful. and in term of bringing many people together who wouldn't normally think they're on the same side. i would appreciate if you decide that's true, if you would let all of your friends, neighbors, and facebook associates now you people that way. am i allowed to take questions? >> we are going a few questions, yes, sir. i have a microphone. if you will raise your hand, i will bring you the microphone and we'll start with the young lady right here. if you'll stand and state your name and ask a question. >> hello, my name is daniel. i'm with the chatman republicans. our question kind of as a whole group: how do you get students to stop paying attention to liberal idea which is is feel good and sound goo good and start listening to real issues and doing what is best for the country instead of what makes

them feel good about themselves. >> thank you. [applause] >> i think there are two parts to. one is margaret thatcher. first, you have to win the argument then you win the vote. you have to think about -- what i'm going say to a lot of liberals. it's so true across the board. they might have been great ideas. they don't work. so i would partly say, gee, you look at the poorest neighborhood in southern california. you think governments work? tell me about your job prospect compared to your parents' at your age. tell me about your student loans. you know, the obama people say, boy, you now get to stay on your participant's insurance until you are 26. my answer is i would like you to have a job so you have your own insurance before you are 26. [applause]

mr. speaker, my name is tom adams. who do you feel we have in government right now that could champion an action you're trying to promote? >> i think there are a lot of pretty smart people. first of all, i think there are some governors who are doing very interesting things. if you look at governor scott walker, for example, he's really -- plldz a -- [applause] a big impact. if you look at governor rick perry. texas creates routinely more jobs than about 25 other states combined. and has done so unendingingly and not been an accident. if you look at john who turned ohio around. you look at bobby gin dahl who has the widest school choice program in the country. there are a lot of interesting governors out there. candidly, although some conservatives aren't level. but christie deserves a lot of credit. he took on a very blue state and really has changed a lot about

trin ton in a way that is impressive. i think woe ought to start there. why work with specific people in congress, there are a lot of folks in the last couple of days, i've been talking, for example, with rob portman who knows a lot about the irs. ron johnson who is an manufacturer elected to the senate. mike burr guess who is a medical doctor who serves the u.s. house. he has a smartphone but his smartphone has an app that does cardiologist. so he put up and you are getting a electrode. so there are enough to be hopeful about. >> mr. speaker, we are taking questions from youtube. we've been online all week. so we have some that people have

e-mailed in. we'll start now with the first one. because you can't see the screen, i'm read it to you. how would you rate president obama's foreign policy compared to that of richard nixon. in is this from kevin jacobson in redlands. [laughter] um -- [laughter] i don't know. without getting myself in too much trouble, you would be like how do you compare a bun any rabbit and a german shepard. [laughter] [applause] i really do worry for the country forment next three years.

because if you watch the syrian fiasco, you watch what is happening in libya. there were 300 people killed in iraq last week. you look at what is happening in egypt, and around the world, you look at north korea, you know, the person who negotiated the north korean agreement so the north koreans would not get a nuclear weapon which they have exploded three since the agreement. is the person helping organize the iranian project. you talk about learning nothing. so i'm very concerned, i think, president obama has a "fantasy" view of the world reinforced by an inability to listen. and people around him who are at least out of touch with reality as he is. i think it's dangerous. and i think we are have been lucky up until now. we shouldn't kid ourselves. the relative importance in the united states and the world today is dramatically smaller than it was the day he took office. and every day that he's in office it's going keep

declining. because foreign leaders are taking mark of him and don't find much there. >> mr. speaker, in the back of the room a contractor from will -- laguna hills. >> i have a two-part question. one, are you running for president of the united states? [applause] >> i don't know. >> second part. [laughter] second part is: what would you do about job creation? >> -- well, look, this is not complicated. we have done this over and over in our history. the first thing do you is favor job creators. you know, that means and as big a problem for anywhere in the country. less red tape, less regulation. i would like to see the small business committee holding hearings on how many things do small businesses have to fill out that are totally unnecessary and just apolish them. i think we need to go through a period of liberating people. making it exciting to be in business.

exciting to go out and create jobs. the courage to defend business and free enterprise and as margaret thatcher once said. somebody doesn't earn it. you can't take it away from them and spend. so the problem with socialism you run out of other peoples' money to spend. we know how to create jobs. we have been very good at it historically. you don't do it by having another government agency invest billions of dollars in "fantasy" industries that go bankrupt. that's a misallocation of resources. and, by the way, it's a misallocation of talent. you are taking hundreds and hundreds of smart people and encouraging them to go off the trail that collapse and wasting time doing so that has no future. that's why, frankly, the main thing government can do well. i'm big for government doing basic research. i think it has a huge impact of basic research.

trying to pretended government can be a venture capitalist is a guarantee way to go broke. >> to the right, i'm going the screen for another question. this one is from julia of mesa, arizona. who were the prison guards of american society today? well, the primary -- it's a good question. the primary prison guards are interest groups, lobbyists, and bureaucracies. and to some extent, politicians. for example, the space program one of the major impediment is republican and democratic members of congress see it as a -- rather than a venture. they will defend the company or the government agency in their district or their state even if it's not longer competent. because it's jobs. this has been a major problem for nasa. which is basically now just a milk cow for a politicians to waste money as opposed to being

bold, i did nam, an vied venture use. i think you can go to city, county, and state, and federal government and say who is blocking the future and who is blocking competition. by the way, when obamacare explapses, i'm fairly certain it will. the great fight -- the left won't have a fight. the left wants single-payer. they think britain and canada work. even though the canada prime minister went to florida to get an operation they couldn't get in canada. and the great britain head died after the population of -- four times. but that doesn't matter if you're a genuine socialist. there are occasionally casualties in the wait of propex. it the real fight is on the way. it's between the prison guard faction of the republican and democratic party who say, oh, i hate government bureaucrats but insurance bureaucrats are

terrific. [laughter] and those of us who believe you want to break out dpowm a genuinely personal health system . there's a little farm in silicon valley which i get wrong. and the the -- i found young woman who was a soft more at stanford dropped out, took her education trust fund and started a company. they spent ten years designing a microtesting system take a tiny amount of your blood. you have been to the doctor and had them draw lots of blood. they take a tiny amount of your blood. they can rather than thousand different tests. they deal with 50 percent of the

current cost. the estimated saves ned care and medicaid combined. it's 157 billion over ten years. think to yourself, you want to see prison guards emerge? every hospital has its own lab. every national laboratory corporation. and they want to drop the prices 50%? you think they want to have to invest in new technology? and so every time you turn around you'll find there are plenty of prison guards around. and the key is to develop a more and more exciting future. and nobody voluntarily said to mcdonalds and walmart we would like to go out of business. they tboin the fight for customers. >> mr. speaker, a clothing designer from huntington, beach. >> thank you very much for being here. we appreciate it. i'm sure everybody can agree with that. my question for you is, as

millions more americans continue to lose their health care coverage because of obamacare what red light ramifications being in the 2014 election and the 2016 elections as well? >> well, i suspect it's a great question. i suspect there will be a very bold attempt sometime next spring to fundamentally start defunding obamacare. about half the democrats will be involved. when people realize, by the way, the number who may get letters next october is 93 billion. [laughter] so you see the amount of paying out of 5 brake light. well, the best estimate we have now from the government itself is 93 million if you're up for reelection in october. you think, i wonder how that will affect their vote in november.

you might see bold fight. he would rather wreck his own party try fog defend obamacare or whether he will in fact, decide he has no choice except to become flexible. it is so clearly not going to work. >> one more from the right side here. my question to you, mr. speaker, is this. what do you think of mark's constitutional convention he's calling for by the states to solve many of the problems which you spoke to early in the evening changing our constitution to deal with those inequities. explain to me who -- if you look at the last two

elections. dominated by people who supported obama. i'm not sure that's a constitutional convention. i particularly want to be part of. i'm very cautious about putting it up for bid. second, all decade. constitutionstate have written articles ofben you haveation. these guys nothing but there's a lot. there is nobody today, not a single person who has a depth ot understanding of practical self-government that those people have.anoth online >> another online question.

this one is we know the heavily bureaucrats, bureaucratic obamacare consequences if given the opportunity to formulate health care policy, how do you propose question approach american health care. the american health care debacle, from jeremy evans from boston, massachusetts. nirs of all, i'm impressed with your reach in term of the different places people write you from. i actually, on way out today, was writing a paper on this very topic. which starts with an assumption that obamacare is going collapse. and the real fight will be between single-payer and the right standing between the old order and the effort to create a new order. let me tell you u, if you're interested you can go gingrich

productions.com. we let you know when other things are published about this kind of stuff. i want to give you three core principles. i'll let you apply it. the first is, should be built from the individual back not from the larger system down. i'm give you two examples. and we're trying to write a health bill of rights right now for americans. you have the right to have your own medical record. you should have the right to know price inequality. virmingly none of the insurance companies will tell you price equality. none of the labs, by the way, will tell you what they charge. they are all contracted. none of the medical device companies who are upset about the tax -- none of them want to tell you the price of their equipment is.

if you went to a hospital for a hip replacement and had five circht -- different options you wouldn't have any idea what one looks better or costs more. you can't -- i tell people this, you can't have a market if there's no price and quality information. so you'll never deal with the pharmacist. in an ideal world you wouldn't have the current pattern where the insurance company creates a narrow networking and you find out the person who took care of you the last three years is no longer in the networking. now you go somebody you have never met before. the whole process becomes very depersonalized.

read that real time what it said. and said to the reporter, last year that was an $68 00 test. what if you designed the system to maximize the flow of information? and to maximize the ease and convenience. this is when you start getting to prison guard problems. you want to start saying, for example, everybody could have their own ekg on their cell phone if they wanted to. this would drive your doctor crazy. [laughter] but it doesn't mean you shouldn't be allowed to do it. finally, you want to maximize the rate of it and not minimize

it. you need a better independent life. and so regenerative medicine is a big deal. the other really big deal, which is hard to get through in washington, is brain research. you take autism, alzheimer's, parkinson, mental health you have a whole list. if we can make the kind of breakthrough possible in the next ten to 15 years, we will save trillions of dollars. and save millions of people fromming a ag any. you can't get it across.

so and maximize the rate of -- that's saves the most lives and most money. and also create the highest value of american jobs. if you had 80% of the world's breakthrough in health in the next 30 years in the united states you have more high value jobs than you can imagine. the -- >> one more question to go to the book signer. >> i was the speaker on the two-part question. under president washington's administration, -- [inaudible]

and the second part of the housing market crash compared by the crash of '29 both lead to big government influence and the people looking to them for hope. it's an important and sophisticated question. let me start by saying, i believe the federal reserve should be audited annually. [applause] and have no accountability. it's a very dangerous model.

we are gambling on creating -- unbelievable proportion. i the model which they have been floating more and more paper. at one point bernanke said he would get in a helicopter and throw money out. i think it's a remarkably one-sided and, frankly, wrong image of what the great depression was automatic -- all about. i think they are running enormous dangers of creating a crisis of too much money. the only reason inflation hasn't gone up is the economy is so weak. a brief side note. inflation essentially is two thing. the volume of money multiplied by the speed of money. it's quantity times velocity. so if you have lots and lots of money but nobody is spending it. the net of the two multiplying

is pretty small. the morning you see the economy improve you see inflation go through the roof. we've never had this much paper sitting out there floating. it allows you to -- a family that sending you in a huge credit on unlimited credit card and told, hey, nothing is due for ten years. it's hard to turn to the kids and say no, we're not going disney land because we can't afford it. we vent dealt with any of our underlying structure problems. we are nowhere close to dealing with a balanced budget. and what hamilton did was actually the first important manufacturers and the first report on the debt. he did two things. he created a tax code designed to maximize american manufacturing. and he insisted that we hon now our -- honor our debt and pay for it and do so in hard money. and this was a deliberate design

to get the world to trust us. and we are very close -- i'll be intsh intrigued to see how it does. it was very much on the proinflation, pro soft money side. it's the next three or four years are like. i do not like the federal reserve being this powerful or secretive. i think it's a grave danger to the entire fabric of our society. we need to have a serious significant reform of the system. and there is a, once again, you brilliant. you do a terrific job here. i'm looking forward to meeting people and signing books. we always seem to have a great time when we come here. we thank you for coming out tonight. tonight. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, he has

been here 12 times but we want him back 12 more. and help give them an incentive for coming back, yes, i'm presenting this one of the kind numbered limited edition, limited to the number we can sell in the gift shop, what would nixon do coffee mug. [applause] >> thank you. spent take it right out there and a way to go. ♪ ♪ >> with a few weeks left in 2013, many publications are putting out their year end lists of notable books. these titles were included in amazon.com's best books of the year.

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