[laughter] >> i think the glamour of reagan though had less to do with his hollywood roots per se. it wasn't the glamour of hollywood exactly but did have something to do with the skills and the grace that he is quiet as an actor that always hit his marks so he looks like he made being out there and fielding those questions look effortless which is another aspect of glamour. people who were likely to support him politically could see in him sort of the ideal representation of their views because he didn't make them embarrassed in anyway any way. they weren't waiting for him to fail. as he got older that became more of an issue but especially in those early days he had this kind of --

which is a word i use in the book that comes from the 16th century look about how to be a successful politician of the day and successful italian career. .

michele bachmann from minnesota. ♪ >> and all of recorded history there's only been one nation, one people that have had a dream made for them. throughout the world the american dream is synonymous with everything good.

pursuing the american dream is the right and privilege of every united states citizen. >> i've been in business for 33 years. we do that by working seven days a week, 15 to 16 hour days sacrificing and saving to build something from nothing. >> ever dream is not the same but every dream is important. it's never easy to obtain. hard work, perseverance, stamina and a willingness to hold fast to core beliefs are the building blocks of achieving. >> the entrepreneurial spirit of america is what brought it to its greatness. >> today an out-of-control government has put the american dream in jeopardy. eight out of 10 americans think it's harder to achieve the dream now than before. they see it was akel system consistently completely unresponsive to their needs.

they see fundamental economic changes that work to erode this free enterprise system. they struggle to see a better path forward for themselves and their children. five years ago today, pursuit of that american dream awaken the passion in people they knew was deep inside them but had never been brought to the forefront. they are dream was in jeopardy. >> i'm tired of the government taking my money was my money with remy and spending it irresponsibly. >> when i get older i don't want my children to be in debt or my great-grandchildren. >> we need some fiscal accountability. >> aren't individual freedoms are being taken away. >> somebody has to tell the government we have had enough of this. >> the first spark of a brushfire that was spread across america in downtown seattle. hundred stood up and said enough is enough. >> this is about freedom

individual liberty and the government getting out of our lives. >> the government is promoting bad behavior. >> ishaq khan go tea party in july. i'm going to start organizing. >> one day later a single conference call fanned the flames and one week later on february 27, 2009 in 48 small towns and big cities across the country over 30,000 people he can the modern-damodern-da y tea party revolution. >> it's the american dream. >> i will tell you what i'm sensing out there. i am sensing the effervescence, the pulse of backlash of a revolution. >> rush was right. six weeks later over 800 taxpaying tea party protests were held nationwide. people who had never to four in their lives joined the cause

lifted their voices and objection to an out of control government. >> i have never done anything like this. i think it's gotten to a point where it got to do something. >> in september american dreamers came by car, by the us, by plane and by foot to the center of washington d.c. and made their voices heard in one of the largest protests in u.s. history. >> can you hear us now? patriots took their cause and consternation from the halls of congress to the streets of their hometowns. health care, cap-and-trade, stimulus spending, free markets and other issues gave impetus to more and more people getting more and more involved. wherever a rally they showed up to join. in wisconsin, in washington state, in places north, south,

east and west. in campaign after campaign they succeeded in sending new voices to state capitols as well as capitol hill. five years later our dreams are alive. our hopes are high. our pursuit of the american dream is stronger than ever but for our children, for their children and for every generation to come, the hard work has just begun. let's build on five explosive and successful years. let's make sure you and your family continued to have the opportunity to pursue your american dream. tea party patriots, pursue your american dream.

♪ >> ladies and gentlemen please welcome tea party patriots co-founder jenny beth martin. [applause] ♪ [applause] [applause] >> thank you. good morning. happy anniversary and welcome to washington d.c.. as visitors we walk along constitution avenue toward the white house and we see on the left a mall, national monuments and from orioles to those who defended our freedom and on the right we see block after block after block after block of

government office buildings, another kind of monument to the vast and powerful government that consumes and spends our tax dollars. really? this is what gave rise to the tea party and as we are here today and we think about what we see in washington d.c. we know we still have a lot of work to do. still, we have so many reasons to be excited and today is an exciting day. our movement has become so influential and so good we attract influential speakers like mark levin. [applause] senators mike lee and ted cruz.

[applause] congressman jim jordan and michele bachmann. [applause] and at the same tone and we will not lose focus on our members. we wouldn't be here today if it were not for you. let's give you a round of applause. [applause] you want to pursue your american dream. every day you champion freedom. remember in 2009 at the stimulus passed our own kelly had the protests in seattle washington. [applause] shortly thereafter rick santelli had a call to action is that our founding fathers would be turning over in their graves in the out-of-control government spending. he said let's have a tea party and did we ever.

eric got us going. rob appel and michael patrick leahy got us talking to conservatives on twitter and michael god is on their first conference call where debbie dooley and others were on it as we planned and organized. moms like me carry kristof and stacy motz got us organizing through smart girl politics. together these people helped you turn a moment in time into a movement and today we celebrate what you have done. you are going to hear from leaders like miracle worker herzog. he did what many said could not be done. he went in the state of washington and got fiscally responsible candidates elected in the metro seattle area.

the state legislature there is no longer deep blue. he has shown that when you talk to others about our values you can win even in one of the most liberal states in the country. you will also hear from mary an. she is one of our ohioan state coordinators and she was recently elected to her school board. she cares so much about our country that she has turned her passion into public service at the local level. and you will hear from man who delivers henry mclendon. he works for a huge shipping company and he volunteers his time at night and on the weekends. this vietnam vet and ham radio operator has organized some of the most inspirational and tea parties around the country and it has become a well-known tea party speaker.

we have had a great day ahead if you hear so get excited and be expired -- inspired. [applause] most of all think about how you can take what you are learning here and share it with others beyond normal circles. most americans want the same things we do. most americans want personal freedom, economic freedom and a debt-free future. [applause] let's take what we have learned here today and share it with them so that they can understand that together we can get there. thank you. [applause] ♪

>> ladies and gentlemen please welcome host of the david webb show in father of tea party 365, david webb. [applause] ladies and gentlemen please welcome the national grassroots coordinator kelly carender. ladies and gentlemen please welcome author of government for liberty micropatrick leahy. ladies and gentlemen please welcome the president and founder of smart girl politics, stacy will lott. >> why are you people standing?

first thing, this is serious business but not that serious. let me go little right part on you for a minute. all of the years causing trouble before the tea party movement the one thing we had to do was to learn your craft to have to do it right. you had to be involved and be committed and you have to have funds of the first thing i want you to do is remember that this is not some need a barrel of cracker brand crowd so you can laugh and you can smile. so if you free to enjoy a good go free to do all the things we tell you. talk low if you have to. this movement was never about a bunch of stick in the mud people. they were happy warriors. remember that phrase? how many of you remember happy warrior's? [applause]

are you happy warrior's? all right than we are in the right place. we have a great panel and i play moderator which means i get to watch the clock and they tell me when my time is up and their time is up. let's get started. first founder and president of smart girl politics. the smart girl that she is. michael patrick leahy founder of talk conservatives on twitter. i put up with hemap right part and he tells me in writing everything i do is wrong and kelly former improv person. be yourself and let loose. let's get right to it however because we all talk about rick santelli's granted now that played out. it was a moment in america and i want you all to go back and watch the video. it's the people around him. people who are in the fine

chilled -- financial industry. people who watch economic progress actually sat around him and cheered and no party registration mattered at that moment. he talked about something fundamental, very fundamental, the numbers. the redistribution, what it means so the words are important, the video matters and oftentimes we don't pay attention to that. but it led to why we are here right now because it just a cold. it's one of those moments and you guys all of you who came late to the game, days later months later whatever that is the success of the tea party movement because more people today and tomorrow will come to it. so let's get started. first there was a phonecall. ladies first. it's kind of my rule.

tell us what happened. >> one of the things we were talking on the panel yesterday is how organic it was. i know we hear the liberal media talk about how the coke druthers founded movement but i didn't hear rick that morning. what i did here was my e-mail lighting up from members. what are we going to do about this? this is something we need to do. i had just met michael leahy and eric odum and i reached out to these guys and said listen this is new for us pray. this is not something we have done before what should we do? michael put together that first phonecall and i will let you take it from there but it really was an organic thing. people were all over twitter that day saying this is the start of something and we need to capitalize on this. >> lets start with kelly actually. kelly held the first protest on

february 16 i think it was that you called it the porkulus event. >> we were protesting the stimulus bill and i went back and i was looking at my log at the time. >> bloggers and their phones. i love that. >> one don't have time anymore but on the morning of that protest like many of you i'd never been involved in politics or done anything like this before but i wrote make no mistake the president will be signing that bill tomorrow. i've no illusions that he will actually listen to us but just maybe we can start a movement that will snowball across the nation and get people out of their homes meeting each other and working together to redirect this country towards its truly radical founding principles of individual liberty and freedom. i was like --

[applause] >> it how to get a message across. i said it with sarcasm but to the point. michael go ahead and talk. >> i think we had 120 people in seattle and the a big donation was $300 that your parents spent on the microphone for you. >> course it was out of the koch brothers checkbook. >> so we have a model. michelle malkin had coverage of kelly's protestant glenn reynolds covered the protests. now america, most americans you i am sure have been unhappy with what had been going on in washington since the bailout and i think everybody remembers what happened when president bush famously said and i'm paraphrasing, i have abandoned the principles of free-market. do you remember that?

did that make any sense to you? it made sense to john mccain. it made sense to barack obama so we had an election and we lost. what i knew and what stacy knew and what kelly knew is this, that americans did not agree with that. there were millions of americans who believed in constitutional limited government but nobody in washington was representing us so what we did is we started three separate on line communities of conservatives. eric odum started a group called don't go hashtag don't go in the summer which was basically telling congress don't go before you do your business and then in late november after the election night put up a list on twitter. i just put a list of

conservatives who were on twitter because at the time the left supposedly on the internet. >> they still do. >> al gore invented it, how could they not? i knew we had something. that list went from 25 people to 1500 people in 72 hours. does that tell you something? of course i was trying to do this manually and i couldn't sort put out a call on twitter and i got a couple of folks that created technology solutions and we had a list that was automatically updated so every day there were hundreds of people added to this. then one of the members of that group at the time 78-year-old from west waco texas started suggesting hey we should have a hashtag and he embedded the famous hashtag. that stands for top

conservatives on twitter and that came from him. >> which by the way shows that this was not a movement of limited people. did you get a check from the coke brother's? let's go through this. let's start with stacy on the other end because this movement surprised the nation. i said it wasn't much of a surprise. what surprised you about this entire organic explosion? >> a couple of different things surprise me. first of all how quickly it grew from the first tea party on february 27 tour should view short months later on april 15 tripling in size and going from 20 or 30 people to several hundred hosting thousands of people that kelly and i talked yesterday one of the biggest surprises was the attacks towards us personally. i had only been in politics for not quite a year and just the

e-mails and the hate mail that we started to get. the coordinate attacks on us from the media and the liberals and whether with social media e-mail or whatever it was just the personal attacks on us and being moms and their children. that was very surprising. >> women who by and large pay greater attention than i think us men to the home issues in the boardroom. they are at home as the ceos as i call it than they are in the ward room. women played a large role in this movement. for you what was a surprise like in a sea of people in new york? i saw mostly old white men with all the old white men in the audience but i saw a lot of women that were out there and involved in this. >> you now i think might take a

surprise to was the attacks. i had never been, i'd never been called a racist of my life before because i'm not and might parents, my parents marched for civil rights and they are tea partiers. they were dumbfounded. at how can we be these horrible people that they are saying we are and then it's stuck. we had to work so hard to overcome that but on the flip side i'm actually surprised with how much of a mirage of attacks that we are under constantly not only from the democrats but from the establishment republicans in the permanent political class. i am now surprised also that we still have an open door with so many people and we can still talk to them so i think that just shows the power of conservatism and the power of ideas. when they polled people agree with rds.

across-the-board huge majorities so the fact that we still agree with our ideas maybe they don't know a lot about us based on the name tea party but they definitely agree with us and so i think that is surprising considering how much work the other side his put into demonizing us. obviously it's because our ideas are the best. >> michael, we have covered this but then there was an evolution. like any movement the nascent stage was what happened to? people didn't even know why they were protesting but they knew there was a problem so we have an evolution in the tea party movement. i call it the nascent stage and it was a bit of the pubescent stage where we were getting things done but we weren't quite sure for those of you that remember what being a teenager was like. we begin studying the policies and the bills and do the things that they wouldn't do in washington on either side of the aisle.

michael what was that like? >> you said something very important. congress was not reading the bills. the constitution says congress should understand the bills that they write and they pass and they simply weren't doing that job. it started with an on line community, a really smart girl politics started. we formed a community of average americans who understood and agreed with american values constitution in the government and what was very interesting is the first thing we did is we have conference calls through technology. we had 50 people on the call. a lot of them are leaders today like jenny beth martin was on that call. stacy and kelly were on the call and bill hennessee and dana lash of the st. louis tea party. christina oteri who is your right hand on the coasts.

>> sally and debbie were on that call. >> big applause. [applause] >> they were also on the call and as it turns out these calls happen so quick lee. we had been having these calls for a couple of months before. that is why stacy and eric said hey mike start a call. all they did to start a call was i sent out a tweet. paul tonight here's the number and that's how those calls got started. congress was not listening so we started with the rallies. that was the first level of evolution. but since then the tea party patriots have all taken specific areas of focus and that is really where the direction we are going. >> i think an important point that you just said, we started and then it expanded.

there were tea partiers all over this country in just about every way possible. in new york city who would have thought there could have been a tea party in boston where you think there would he won. a very liberal city at this evolution really grew and i think that is why, i know that's why they had to start paying attention whether they were pretending to agree and let's face it there are people that try to use a tea party but this growth was never limited. we don't want them to government and limited citizen participation. ..

to make a difference. in that think it was is that evolution and what these tea partier is arguing in the communities. we don't seem to think there is a 10,000 people rallied, but it is better busy have these people and communities are on this report, running for office. making a difference on the ground or accounts. how many people here tried calling to tell there representatives of other senators that they did not want

this to melos bill to pass? and how many of you could not get through because they turned off their voice mails or stopped answering their phone? i am seeing this this morning. that was one of the reasons why it blew up so quickly because we were all experiencing the same thing at the same time which is what prompted me to hold that protesting the beginning. i have been taught as a kid. a, you have to do is call your representative. this is america. they listen to you. power of the people. i call than they did not listen and they actually deliberately did not listen which is when i realize something was broken in that think that -- we were all experiencing the same thing at the same time. >> let's wrap this. abcaeleven they flash this year. wrap this now. time for my producers honor. this is the future, and the find command open landscape, many of

you that the parts of groups, not parts of groups, agree with the principles as a lot of americans do. the independence, this is a worker like to put into that tea party movement. the independence regardless of whether they identified, principles matter. let's just go across. lightning rounds just like on my show starting from the end, what about the future of the tea party. give us the 30-2 future. >> as much as things have changed, a lot of things are still the same. still fighting the good fight. and until we see some of the changes that we try to push five years ago i think that our tactics may change. what we are working for in toward has not. there is still a lot of fight. >> michael, you are usually talking. but go for it. we are going to win.

[applause] >> five years ago today american >> it yesterday. by a long shot. the way we're going to win is with you. one front forest at the time. it is going to be the conservative ground game infrastructure. we are going to win your neighborhood and your precinct. talking person to person face-to-face with your neighbors expressing the three core values of the tea party movement -- >> see what i mean? by the way, another favorite on my show. give us your future. >> we're going to be more free. [applause] and i can go back to doing improv. >> this is your future. is your kid's future. think for a second.

they have been great. and self -- we look to something bigger checks for -- average, everyday americans to set up. great job, guys. [applause] book tv. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please

welcome bill gordon from tea party patriots. ♪ >> i hate politics, but i love principles. politics is a dirty rotten filthy business, and i hate it. but i love guiding principles which is why engage. i love the principles of liberty which is why i love our history, the founding fathers, and the constitution. early in 2008 as i had already been volunteering in the national center for constitutional study we started noticing an increase in requests for the making of american seminars. as we traveled the seminars, you could feel a sense that something was brewing in america little did we know it would be tea.

sure enough that tea party movement flooded the nation with a new awakening of liberty. people felt that something was wrong in the land of the free. people turned to the constitution and the founding fathers for answers. thomas jefferson said enlighten the people. enlighten the people in tyranny and oppression will vanish like evil spirits of the dawn monday. as we travel the nation's sicking the constitution it was exciting to see, the american people, they inherently understood the truth to stamp out tyranny we must learn and understand the principles of liberty. we inherently knew that if our nation wants freedom, peace, and prosperity we must live, learn, and teach the principles of liberty. principles that are at the heart of the miracle that we call america. in 16 of seven in jamestown there were using a plow, the

same way mankind had been plowing the fields for 5,000 years. it was about the same way that mankind had been traveling for 5,000 years. their medicines were made up more obnoxious concoctions and superstition and any kind of science. they thought alcohol was a staple food. some still think that. by adhering to the principles in the declaration of independence and the constitution, we went from oxcarts to space travel in less than 200 years. in effect, you can say that we have made a 5,000 year leap. many of you have read the book the 5,000 yearly. that book sold almost a million copies in 2009 and 2010 this great awakening in the people indicated that they are yearning to understand and learn the 28 fundamental principles of

liberty and learn that when you free the mind of man it results in a miracle that has changed the world. today we call this miracle the american dream. it is a dream that with freedom we can be and do whatever we set our minds to it really have been taught about this all allies by teachers, families, even popular culture. a quote from an unlikely source. i am the american dream. i am the epitome of what the american dream basically said. it said that you can come from anywhere and be anything as you want in this country. that is exactly what i have done. that is not from george washington or thomas jefferson or even ronald reagan. that is will be goldberg. isn't will be going to be surprised when she hears that she was quoted at a tea party event. [laughter] betsy is right. that is what the american dream is all about.

i have come to realize that the american dream on not be accomplished by restoring or returning back to what the founders had. they had the tyranny of the king and the oppression of parliament we don't want to return to what they had. we want to build upon what they created. thomas jefferson said, i like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. they laid the foundation. the next generation built upon it and the next in the next until their foundation gave rise to a light of liberty. this could never have happened without an enlightened and educated people. but early -- are we educated enough to keep and maintain the light of liberty today? perhaps not, but is a solution to take freedom from us? again, jefferson said i know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society that the people themselves, and if we think then night enlightened enough to exercise their control

with a wholesome discretion the remedy is not to take from them but to inform their discretion by education. this is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. politicians issues amendments which alone are not solutions. the true corrective of constitutional abuse is education, education on a guiding principle of liberty. the founders did not live in the past. it did not even well in the present. they looked to the future of greatness of all mankind, i greatness that comes by liberty and virtue, not by bondage and coercion. we too must learn these timeless principles of liberty, look to our future and reach for what mankind may become and pursue your american dream. thank you. [applause]

>> ladies and gentleman please welcome president mark heard. >> we are a people losing our inheritance and vision of the american dream. throughout history where there is no vision the people perish. no one seems to be able to communicate this dream, but it seems to be that no one can agree as to what the american dream is or how to reach it. and when we do try to communicate this dream to each other we are on such different sheets of music that our american harmony is shattered. historian james stovall said in his book, the american dream has

not been a dream of nearly mitt terry plenty but much more than that. is the american dream selfishness, selfishness that produces an ever increasing burden of centralizing governance or is the american dream selflessness? selflessness that produces a privilege of burden of a self-governing society. the american dream is an experiment, the capacity of mankind for self-government's. we the people are responsible for filling the american dream of a self-governing society. five years ago i realized i am responsible for losing the vision of the american dream. i ask myself a simple question, how do we keep our republic.

i ask everyone around me. i discovered something amazing. there is a light of liberty in the soul of every one around me. george washington said preserving the sacred fire of liberty is the responsibility of the american people. we are charged with speaking the language of self-government -- self-government's. what is the languages of governance? it is the difference between power and governance, the delicate balance between self governance and centralized governments, where rights come from. and you can take them away? this is what the center for self-government's teaches us.

we're sending thousands of men and women on fire with the system of government that we love. the system of government that is under threat. the system of government we have all that to keep many others for inspiration, it began as an experiment and worked as the center for self-government's we travel the country said trains citizens to break their manacles says, we'll their power to control their institute government. with the support of tea party patriots we grew from 71 students in 2012 to over 1,000 students in 2013. thank you. [applause]

exposing them to the internet at the center for self-government's we have a dream, to inspire help the discourse once again. at the dinner table, the street corners, and also our legislatures, only by speaking the language of self governance can we realize the dream of jefferson, all of the levers of liberty throughout history. a remington said i leave you a big that the land of liberty will burn in new. we leave you with the reality that the help of the american dream is not dead but is, in fact, burning brightly. our purpose has been formed, the discretion of others.

together we will keep them -- the american dream alive. join us in writing the sacred fire of liberty. join us in setting the brush fires of freedom in the minds of men. god bless america and let's keep our republic. [applause] ♪ vote -- >> good morning. one to pay a picture for a 18 years ago on a snowy november evening my boyfriend got down on

one knee and as we merriam. my response, of course, was yes, but he wanted children, and that it not. i told him, knowing this, that i'm not the one you want to spend the rest of your life with. for some reason they came back and we got married. we have to fantastic children. [applause] my son, anthony, is 16, and my daughter, amanda, will be 14 in march. for many of us like this novel we thought it would be. my life is nothing like i thought it would be, but i would not change a thing. my children or my world, like i'm sure your children are your world. we worry about what lies ahead. we want the best for them, every opportunity. we have dreams for our children.

my dream is this, that we live in a country where one's aspirations are limited only by one's self. if my son's desire is to be a world-class neurosurgeon, then he can be that neurosurgeon. my daughter's desire is to be a special artist, she can be that artist. it was stated so beautifully by thomas jefferson when he said, the policy of the american government is to lead its citizens free in their restrain them number 89 in their pursuit. what did he mean by that? it is up to the individual, the talents and desires of the individual, no one else. that is my dream for my children , from every recent. pursue your dreams without being shackled i started to see that dream slipping away in 2008.

we have become complacent. people were actually buying into this hope and change thing not even knowing what hope and change was. what did it really mean. i started the year phrases like distribution of wealth and leveling the playing field and fundamentally transforming america. one night my husband and i were watching tv and listening to then senator obama, and it hit me. people are really buying this. they believe what this man is saying. then i heard about the tea party movement, and i had to be a part of it. i was new to the area, a totally new to the political scene. i did not know what to expect, but i knew that it had to be done. i started a local group, on april 15th, 2009, we had our first rally. i was amazed at the number of people that came out on this cold, rainy, windy day and

stayed right until the end. little did i know that this was only the beginning. since then i have learned many things. one thing that continues to hit home is our children. we are starting to late in educating and instilling virtues in our children how about what made this country so great. we need to counter the progressive movement that has invaded our schools through textbooks and curriculum's. how do we do this? i had been a tutor for several years. that was not enough. i started essay contests, dress in time correct costumes, greeting visuals for them and bring to life the sacrifices the forefathers had made. the kids and teachers loved it.

that still was not enough. i decided to take the next that

to join the ranks of the conservative movement. i contend that the greatest asset we have to save this nation is not being utilized and i'm referring to white conservatives. in our frederick douglass liberty messenger seminars we dispel the myth the white conservatives cannot engage someone over different ethnicity. let me ask you a question. who established the diversity outreach program that still has a major impact in the world today? it was jehovah god when he commissioned paul to take the gospel to the gentiles. paul was jewish.

he was commissioned to take the gospel to people of different ethnicities and different races. as conservatives we have the same situation. predominately white and what we are trying to do, we are trying to share the life empowering message of the conservative philosophy to different people of different ethnicities. you can do it but you must be trained in something that works. you must be trained in something that works. what we need is a conservative hero. we need someone who can spark an emotional appeal for conservative values. the answer is frederick douglass. to save our nation and to turn things around all of us need to become frederick douglass liberty messengers. thank you so much and god bless you. [applause]

>> ladies and gentlemen please welcome co-founder of southwest tea party patriots and state representative from minnesota, cindy hugh. [applause] >> before two thou think the only political activity i had ever taken was voting. ..

: americans to be in washington d.c. before the first vote on obamacare. i felt like there were speaking to me. i got on a bus the following wednesday and took a 24-hour ride to washington. it was my first trip to d.c. again, i was alone. i met world war ii veterans.

and when we got back to minnesota -- and we cannot finance research and our own. [applause] -- when we could not finance we started our own. [applause] that was the first time i asked, if not meet, who? if not now, wind? we launched the southwest metro tea party on the fourth of july. three months later my friend wrote in the parade with us. our tea party has been meeting every week since. after redistricting in 2012 my friend started bringing out the bus. people started asking me to run. they said that i had to. the calls kept coming. i said, find, i will find

somebody to challenge the incumbent. when i could not find somebody it hit me that this is a call to action to me. i said to my husband, honey, i began going to have to run. again, i thought, if not me, who if not now, when? i ran i'm fundamental tea party principles, fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and individual responsibility for every one of you. i learned that the incumbent was a solid vote for labor and against public pension reform. we have a $17 billion unfunded public pension liability in

minnesota. when i talked to voters about that we were shocked. people gave me hags, and gave me half times, said, you go, girl, from their front porches. we have been waiting for you for years. i thought to myself, wow. just this week us started my second session as a state representative. because of all the voters i'm at i can see them in my mind's eye when i rise to speak on their behalf and the minnesota floor. my constituents have given me the confidence to challenge government overreach and oppressive taxation. i spoke out against the

unionization of child workers, small-business owners. i spoke out against the government takeover of minnesota health care which used to be the destination. thanks to the tea party and thanks to all of you, i have found my voice, and i know now that i am speaking on behalf of countless people who have not yet found theirs. if you have considered running the but you were not up for it, maybe should reconsider. he had never thought about it, maybe you should. if not us, who? if not now, when. ronald reagan said freedom is never more than a generation from extinction. we did not pass it to our children in the bloodstream. it must be fought for, protected

, and handed on to them to do the same. the challenges before us are great. the time is short. there is not any one of us who can do anything, but every single one of us can do something. i have confidence in new. i have been inspired by you over the course of the past five years. i have seen that we, the people, can do anything. thank you. [applause] ♪ ♪

♪ >> michele bachmann staked her claim to fame making this year's time magazine list of the most influential people in the world. >> torchbearer. >> gladiator. >> these strong, conservative women represent an existential threat to liberalism. >> they gave away half 3,000 tickets. >> the winner of the 2011 straw poll is congresswoman michele bachmann. >> let not your heart be troubled. >> first of the nation's caucus. >> there is almost no one who has a better hold of the tea party movements and a national message through the media. >> my name is michele bachmann.

i am a member of congress, chairman of the tea party caucus in the house of representatives as well as the author of the bill to repeal obamacare. >> and that is why we are here today. >> for newsmagazine released its annual list of the world's most powerful 100 women. michele bachmann is number 22. >> michele bachmann is a powerhouse. >> michele bachmann was doing that tea party thing before it tea parties were doing tea parties. she knows what she's doing. >> is going to bring government back to you. we, the people. stand strong. ♪ >> i am not going away. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please

welcome congresswoman michele bachmann. ♪ >> good morning. good morning. ♪ good morning. how are you? good to see you. good morning. good morning. [applause] could morning, everyone. it is so great to see you. are we having a great time? [applause] me, too. i'm so excited. i have to let you know that i cannot stay long because i am being audited by the irs. [laughter] i am here today faugh to read you up but to also say thank you because of what you did for america is stellar. it was life changing for the

lifeblood of this nation. you and the movement that we represent took the gavel out of nancy pelosi is hand in 2012. you did that. [applause] now, imagine where we were in 2008. barack obama became the president of the united states. nancy pelosi in 2008 was the speaker of the house. harry reid was the majority leader in the senate. one thing that the progressive left movement understood is that elections matter. does that have your attention? do alexians matter? absolutely. what is it that we are seeing right now on mainstream tv? the only thing that they can talk about is that 2016 election .

why you think that is? it is because they do not want us to think about the 2014 election. now, why are the 2014 elections so incredibly, powerful the important? the senate. that's right. but take a look at what results have yielded from the 2010 and 2012 alexian. did we have of senator ted crews rand paul? marco rubio? now, imagine what the future holds with senators like that. senators that are willing to stand up, take a stand, and look at the house of representatives. it is not your grandmother's house of representatives and the more. some ways you might say that we do have a lot of very good,

powerful voices in house and in the senate. are we there yet? we have a ways to go. who is going to do it. we are. we're going to do it. the tea party movement at its core is an intellectual movements, movement that is based on ideas that i would put up against any ideas in the world. there is a wonderful group who did over 200 years ago. in fact, not only did they put the ideas up, they contended for those ideas to the point of their blood, treasure, family. they laid everything online. i think at and around right now with fellow patriots who are willing and to have laid it all on the line, and i thank you. at thank you. [applause] there is temptation in our movement. i have seen it, and perhaps you

have to. at a defeat -- and we get them. at 80 feet when things to not go our way sometimes we can tend to take our marbles and want to go of. have you ever been there, fell like that? is that the right thing to do? remember, the state of the union address, president obama, when he was speaking of a government takeover of health care said that we have been working on this for 75 years. to you remember that? b.c., the progressive left is so committed to achieving their objectives and achieving their objectives that they go on for decades and decades and passed the torch and pass the baton. freedom lovers do, too. part of our problem has been that we have listened to too closely to what the mainstream

media has to say about us. we know who the mainstream media is. why are we believing them? think about that for a moment. it is important that we understand. there was a book called the art of war. he need to understand yourself, and you need to have a stand your enemy. in this case it is a political enemy. sometimes i wonder if we passed the first test. to lea understand ourselves. because what we have to fight for should be motivation enough to keep us in the game. take a look at these magnificent ideas. we are the adults in the room when it comes to dealing with the budget. that is the tea party. the adults in the room. [applause] we are also the conscience of the constitution.

let me tell you what i mean by that. the constitution is not just a document that was created over 200 years ago that had some nice-sounding phrases and seemed like a good idea at the time. it is so much more than that. do you realize that the constitution is one of the most magnificent documents to give us freedom economically. no other civilization had a basis for its economy like the one we were given the constitution. think of what that is to establish their united states as an economic powerhouse. what that document said is that your creative health, not just what you can produce with the strength of your arms, would your intellectual health,

creativity, what you produce is your product, not for anyone to steal. the after rented, buy it. pageant's meant something. that was an american creation. we understood the power of private property. you understand the power of private property? the founders did, the constitution did. if you have what is known as a capitalistic system of government, that means that you have individuals who have the capacity to be able to earn capital. what is wealth? the definition of wealth is the acquiring and holding on to capitol. without capital you cannot create wealth, grow, invest. it if we want to the -- if we

want to return capital he is fine. our job is to created for the purpose of giving it over to him . that half has nothing to do with our form of government and nothing to do with these magnificent ideas for which we contend. i am here today to state to everyone in this room, our time for contending is here and now. we focus between now and 2014 because elections matter. making sure we elect the most conservative people we possibly can to the house of representatives who are not ashamed of our beliefs and constitution and declaration. we do the same in the united states senate and plug away and stay with the. like that train that says, i think i can. i think i can. we stay with it. we do not take our marbles and go home. again, we have the ideas worth

contending for. people do that throughout time. i will quickly and with this small history lesson. the world was safeguarded with what was called tax britannica. how many of you have heard of that. the world saw that economic and military superpowers. that changed. it did not stay that way. somewhere around 1943 we moved from tax britannica said pax americana. why? the united states became this economic superpower of the world when that happened we also became a military superpower of the world. does it matter? what happened in this past year? china became the economic superpower of the world in terms of trade. i am not here to say that the

party is over. i am here to say it is time for us to sober up and wake-up and recognize -- [applause] -- that in my opinion the world with china as the economic superpower of the world does not make a safe to each one of us our freedom, economically or otherwise. imagine if russia is the economic and military superpower of the world. i think there is a desire on the part of russia, a desire on the part of china, a desire on the side of ron. to you want to be under up packs and ron or up packs china? you see, that is why ideas matter. it is why we cannot contend.

i am here to say thank-you. you did it by stopping -- putting the brakes on the agenda of barack obama by taking that gavel out of nancy pelosi sand. we have a very real opportunity to throw the sand in the gears and stop it and take the gamble out of harry reads hand this november. [applause] and when we do that -- and when we do that that means that the door is wide open for a generational shift by electing for president a constitutional conservative in 2016. if we do that and if we do it right let me tell you, not only will our children thank you, the world will thank you. the world will affect you. [applause]

because they look for freedom. you remember of that case of the mother and little boy who left cuba in and enter to. you see, we mater. we matter to the freedom seeking a loving peoples of the world, and that is why it is to us to contend for these free. it was a group in this room. we have an intellectual balance, the fortitude, and the energy to make it all happen. it is up to us. let's take the challenge and get it done.

up and save america from the left. you are doing it. i think back in those years going into roughly 2010. i watched what happened when nancy pelosi became the speaker of the house, and i am sitting there doing all i can punching away. trying to hold our constitution together and our free enterprise together and our way of life together. we forget that they roll captain trade of the top of us before they brought obamacare. it just did not get through the senate because of what used to

be known as the filibuster and the supermajority required. they rolled captain trade over the top of us. we have barack obama deciding that he has the constitutional authority and make up laws on his own. today minions in the executive branch to do whenever they decide to do to impose this lester -- leftist agenda. i have long spoken about these constitutional violations, but here's the one that is the starkest and clearest. after barack obama had taken a beating from the religious community because there was a requirement in obamacare that they provide contraceptive a board position as sterilization and he took about a 2-week beating from the religious organizations and then he

stepped to the podium and said, now or will make an accommodation, now will require insurance companies to provide these things for free. for free. we went back and looked up to rules. there was not one letter changed the only thing that changed was that barack obama had spoken. the insurance companies lined up to do his bidding as if he were king. the imperial presidency has emerged, and some of it in spite of what you have done. i want to take you back to that 2010 timeframe when nancy pelosi walked through a lot of view -- there were people in this room when she carried said big, magnum gaveled through and had heard let them eat cake moment and glorified how they would use that big gavel to impose the will of the leftists on the free people of america in an unconstitutional fashion, and

they did that. but they did it over the largest uprising of people that i have seen in my lifetime, and that was you. coming to this building. i remember walking down the steps that day that we saw the obamacare bill, out and having a conversation. what do we do? well, we call the american people to come to the capitol, surrounded, jammed the place, to let anyone in or out. you know what you did? you did something that has never been done before. use around the capital of the way around. it was not a demonstration here or there. you in circled the capital. [applause] and it was not just a human chain reaching as far as we could. you were six and eight deep. thousands of people in the corner still left to go. there is no picture of that because there is no air cover over the top. you cannot fly a helicopter over

there. you stood up to defend america against captain trade, tarp, obamacare. what happens? the president sends the irs after you. and he says there is not a smidgen of corruption and baldness. there is not a smidgen of constitutional authority that this man actually exercises. he is outside the bounds of it, and we have to pull that down. we have a battle ahead of us. [applause] we are far from done. the tea party gets the blame for everything the left does not like. i am fine with that. it is a good sign we are doing the right thing together. [applause] remember this. we are about restoring the constitution, and we will do this for a public demonstration and the electoral process, from the grassroots up to the next president of the united states.

we will restore constitutional rights in america, reaffirmed that it means what it says, not what someone wanted to say, restore the american dream, identify for babies yet to be borne the pillars of american exceptional as an. [applause] we will identify because if we don't believe it in our hearts, if we don't believe in this, know that this part of our civilization they will define it away from us. i children need to know our founding fathers meant what they said, the words in the declaration and the constitution and the law, by the way, mean what they say. and we cannot let them define it away. we owe this to the people that handed this republic over tests to preserve, protect command defended and handed to the next generation. they can formate. they funded out of the ideas of the rights that came from god

and our huge, wrote, shapes the declaration of the constitution, father revolutionary war, and there is our great country is all we have to do is preserved and protected and to the next generation in better condition than the way we found it. we will serve and to this. the most patriotic motivation and serve with joy. we might as well have fun because if you can serve with joy they can and never defeat you. [applause] and they're never going to defeat the tea party. ray a starter than ever before, anchored in the constitution, limited government, free enterprise, and strong families, western civilization which is the foundation for these things that we believe in. let's go up there and continue this effort in our homes,

cities, churches, schools, workplaces and families. god bless america. let's save it together. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome congressman labrador from idaho. ♪ [applause] >> could morning. >> could morning. >> it is a great honor for me to be here. now what you to know that i would not be here if it were not for the tea party. [applause] fin four years ago i ran for

office. the establishment decided that i was not the right candidate for i know. they decided that they wanted somebody else to be a congressman. we had a democrat in office, and we all knew that he was beatable. they wanted somebody who was elected will. apparently that person was not me. and i had a bunch of people have their decided that they wanted me to be their representative, and there were people like you who wanted to bring back america , back to what it used to be, the strength, energy, excitement that most of us have to be americans. seoul and little old idaho they decided, you know, these tea party patriots are so racist. they decided they wanted of pleasure rican mormon. [laughter]

and their works so hard for me and my primary i got out spent five to one. they beat the establishment. i lost that race by nine points. [applause] and win in the preferred candidate of the establishment lost, they decided that they were okay. the establishment decided that they did not want me to be here in washington, so they were not going to help me. and they decided to move on to other races. and the tea party and many of you in idaho decided that they wanted me to win. i got outspent six to one in my general election. guess what, i lost that race by

ten points. .. >> a young boy can aspire to go to college, can aspire to go to law school, can aspire to own a business and can do that without having to need the government to depend on. [applause]