it takes. as a writing teacher i have repeated that statement to two generations of students if there are riders they will never forget it it could take a lifetime. thank you so much. [applause] >> my name is jessica i am chief of staff at young america foundation welcome. i would especially like to welcome our viewers online. today we are joined from our intern as a nonprofit organization conservative movement with the student conferences with the

educational resources and the foundation please that resentment by promoting the ideas of limited government andst values for the next generation. it is in great part by those leading conservatives to reach ourou students today our guest today is one such leader was played a critical role over the n last three decades the speaker has a house of new gingrich has been an ally to address the program during and after his time a in congress also from the reagan ranch center in santa barbara also found one of their many documentaries at the ranch. and for the very first time to

be here from the headquarters it is no surprise that the speaker understands teaching young people those principles prior to his career in public history as a congressman newt gingrich is a teacher first elected in 1978 representing his district over 20 years he was elected speaker of the house in his first speech newt dgingrich told the audience he felt compelled to public service at an early age somebody has to be willing to dedicate their life for freedom for people i had an obligation to do my share. we're glad he did because he is known as the architect of the contract if it's america and after having geordie for

the first time after a decade under his leadership past welfare reform the first balanced budget in a generation and the first tax cut in 16 years he remained committed to inspiring to speak to audiences throughout the '90s and into 97 addressed a press conference covered by every major news network following his time in congress launches center in 2003 as general chairman through the 2012 presidential bid he has published three books including fiction and nonfiction new york times bestseller and his latest book trumps america. time magazine naming him man of the year to make things possible exceptional

leadership is inevitable he belongs in that category please join me to welcome speaker of the house of representatives gingrich 17. [applause] i'm lad you are here so we are delighted to have you here toda today. i am delighted to talk to you here at the foundation so i will ask a question if you were students at the present time how many of you would say there is a liberal bias on your campus? [laughter] does anybody here say there is

not? >> that is a great school. spent a good. that is a larger school i have heard. anybody watching this would have some sense with y young america's foundation matters we are in a long-term struggle literally a cultural civil war right now in the middle classes how many have a professor if you have a conservative answerat on your test would give you a lower graded? if you have professors who would mark you down to give the wrong answer by definition? i think the news media is really the outsource of the

universityty as they became more liberal the news india follow that pattern that is why we have the news media we have today although the relationship with trumpet -- trunk is different but how many of you election day 2016 thought hillary would probably win? raise your hand. this is a conservative audience but 90% of the hands went up how many of you were confident trump would win? one? two. three of you. this is part of why i voteum this book writing a book called understanding trump which really was because he is so different to say i don't understand what he is doing or

how he does it so that is what we focused on trump but frankly it weathered pretty well but a large part of who he is has not changed but agreed to have what we are recent trumph with the personality but things happening in america. so that america trump is president of then i have a theory and it goes back to election day. all of your friends are liberalsls that 8:00 o'clock are about to pop the champagne hillary would break the glass ceiling a left-wing supreme court justice with policies on

the left and raised taxes and life was good. two hours later you may have lived through this yourself or whatever room you were in now people are staring at each other not only will she not be president butut that means that donald trump will be president. and i believe what happened was this event was comparable to a psychosis the intensity and speed of change was so great that most liberals today from a political variance of ptsd. and the part of trump's genius is he tweets every morning some people go to bed and they try not to think of a

nightmare but then theyak wake up and then they start a happy new day and they see he tweets and they think oh my god he stilllde president. they cannot get over it. and it comes back to them again and again in the big part of why there is an extraordinary level of anger. of why there is an extraordinary level of anger. ideological but somewhere deep almost like in the middle ages who usurped the king and now sitting in the white house who should not be there legitimately. but trump ignores all that and with people who don't appreciates it he grew up in the new york media market which is the toughest and nastiest media market in the countryst he learned if he would

fight and he would get coverage every day and he likes coverage. he spent the last 3030 years fighting the things he's going to get worn out he wakes up in the morning looking for a fight. he enjoys it. that is part of the reason why you have this noise level but under that huge things are happening. now we have the lowest unemployment rate in american history. after all it is a deep concern in fact two days ago a report came o out that said there are more vacancies than people looking for work. you think that is good so the federal reserve in atlanta

estimates the economy will grow at 4.8% if that happens as much under obama under that .reagan range i talked last night at the heritage foundation and said the size of the investment structure the number of companies investing, a canadian firm weekss ago every company in canada looks to people today united states that is now the most competitive country in the world you are better off tax wise to be here. that means you will see a huge amount of money but at the same time you have the ide

regulation process 2d regulate the redtape. so what does that do? so actually you see the economy take off because that deregulation d process and signals the people do more things and they won't try to put you out of business. but the book isn't called trumps government but trumps america. there are some very different things happening. actually to compel a dramatic change in government. i am passionate about space

and i'm curious how many of you would be interested if there was an opportunity? would you be willing to do it? justst curious. people that go hiking on the various trails that yosemite but how many people are frozen on mount everest but a can't get off? people show up every year that people also show up at everest. so you have those stages a of movingce from space done with a very small number of specialized people to treat that is his own pioneering in colonization and a large part and this is where trump is the m entrepreneur but it isn't government.

i do recommend that you read it right after you read trumps america but it takes for billionaires and we really haven't adjusted to the fact there people on the planet to be wealthy enough to be the equivalent of a country with that many assets. so really richard branson who had virgin america or virgin atlantic and now they have a spaceship and it has successfully completed two flights and designed to take six passengers and a pilot and copilot literally to the edge of space and then you have 15 minutes to be weightless and taking pictures of her 60 miles up. he has put a lot of money into

this. he has people who have put down $250,000 for a seat on his flight. the second person is paul allen the cofounder of microsoft. he decided to go totally different route he is building the largest airplane in the world basically to 740 sevens joined together innd the middle designed to carrier a rocket 50000 feet and his goal is to make space the same convenience is getting on a domestic airlin airline. and that is a thursday at 2:00 o'clock then you have to do it with no training or down to houston but then the third

example is the american who inventeded tesla.

people who signed up on line. it made the stanford faculty. mad because they were paid tuition. considerable number of them finish the course. when he did the final the top

stanford student was number 400 and the final exam. there were 399 of the people on line who did better and he said he had the sobering realization that as much as he liked his lectures they weren't the most effective way to live. the most effective way is to have a relationship where you ask a computer over and over again didn't get it because the computer never got bored. it's very hard to ask a professor three of three, four, five times the same question. begin intimidate yourself. you are not willing to put the computer doesn't care. he wanted to go out and experiment so he built you destiny which is an on line learning system and found the california faculty hated it because it was a threat. i once wrote a look in the

subtitle was pioneers of the future prison guards at the pass. whoever was the last cycle doesn't get all that excited when the next cycle starts. he had the courage and they literally said you could not offer it in the california system so we said fine and not even going to try to get a credit in the started contracts in places like google, apple, amazon facebook and if you take his courses and you pass them for the purpose of hiring you they are certified by those companies. they have discovered an amazing number of people say let me get this straight, i can get a normal i.d. -- degree. it's an example the beginning of the future. we are going to go through artificial intelligence or

robotics we are going to have so many jobs where people need to be reeducated. we need to think of new and creative and better ways of learning so people can continuously upgrade their marketable skills. otherwise the system doesn't work. from my perspective you see lots of changes coming down the road. there are 90 drugs dealing with alzheimer's. 90 different efforts to develop something. alzheimer's is the biggest public health problem, $20 trillion the equivalent of the national debt so it's a huge area. a very serious effort is underway to develop a non-addictive painkiller to replace all of the opioids by having a painkiller that was effective in head nod diction and it will probably come on line in two or three years

because we have a good understanding of the biology. i look around and i see all of these opportunities and then you see the left. the let's goal is control, whether it is a government-run health system of government-run school system. old down the whole list and the world i am describing is not a happy fun exciting optimistic world. to terrifying world. what if people could just go out and be happy and what if they didn't need to bureaucracy? what if they could go out and find a job and they didn't have to have somebody improve. in this sense the whole trump in world view of can we grow fast enough create enough good jobs build a big enough system is really very threatening if you are on the left. secondly the idea of making america great again by applying it to everyone so that you end

up with any american of any background having an opportunity to pursue happiness which violates the let's model which is we should not considered as individuals. all of you should be wrote them into groups and we should then decide what group they belonged to and which group we should be mad at. it's a real model of divisiveness and a real model of taking the country apart and not putting the country back together. those two will be very impressive. texas the polls is came out last week. senator -- is carrying the latino vote against the democrat. the governor is tied with the latino vote. it's a much higher vote than they would have gotten four years ago. the lowest black unemployment rate in history, people talk to each other and they start saying jay what if this is working?

maybe it's a good idea. there a lot of things going on that really represent a profound change. let me talk about one last area which is my focus and that is understanding trump and the trade department. i think it's very funny that the europeans and canadians and i have no idea how the meeting is going to go but they have decided at the g7 that they are going to gang up on trump. that's funny first of all because the fastest-growing economy in the g7. this happened to reagan by the way. when the reagan went to his first meeting with all these guys they basically treated them like this kid who didn't know what he was doing and he just sat on the corner. he came back two years later and we had the fastest-growing economy in the world and suddenly heated then at center stage.

the fastest-growing economy by a big margin in the states. you might think the leaders might say gee donald would be doing right? instead they are mad at him because he pulled out of the paris agreement on the environment and pulled out of the iranian agreement and the senate terra four. trudeau and macron both picked a fight with him and he came right back at them. he pointed out her example that the canadians have 147% tariff and when you want to pick a fight and first of all the canadian economy depends on those very heavily. in the case of macron the economy still underperforms. macron who in some ways is a lot like trump. and macron has tried very hard to reform france and is having a hard time doing it.

the truth is the french people aren't -- and they have a very long history of the railroad workers striking two days a week for months just to send a signal that we are not happy. imagine the chaos that causes. they are not necessarily the people who decided to lecture us on the economy. in addition trump did something very profound. from world war ii until 2016 we used the american economy to prop up -- so need your help somehow you got a good deal. for a very long time it made perfect sense because the soviet union was our major competitor and two because when they came out of world war ii we were half the world's economy. remember everybody else had done

bombed and we were the one country that had not suffered any civilian war pandemic so we were huge portion of the world and we could afford to be generous. over the last 25 years that has all disappeared. we have agreed to work with the chinese and to let them into the world trade organization with the hopes that they would become part of a rules-based modern system. the director of national intelligence under obama not under trump said two years ago the chinese stole $460 billion in intellectual property in one year. that's more than our total sales in china. trump is taking the position that we are going to defend that intellectual property. that's going to lead to friction. he's taken the position that if they put a 2.5% tariffs on cars the chinese put a tariffs on

cars. we are not going to play a game where you charge 10 times as much as we do. that's going to lead to friction. people need to understand this but if you have an american president who puts america first instead of putting some kind of fake world global system first that can create tension first because it's a huge change and second because as the biggest country in the world we put ourselves first where formidable even the chinese as much as they have grown cannot possibly compete with us in a head-to-head contest. they might be able to and 30, 40 or 50 years but they can't right now. they are going to catch up. these are the kinds of changes that are underway that are amazing. trump and you understand a lot more about trump and "trump's

america". trump has a belief in his ability to learn and his ability to negotiate. one of the things that i think people say makes him different he listens to everybody. when he was in saudi arabia the king of saudi arabia was with him every single day for three days and every time they were in public the king of saudi arabia was next to them and they were talking. it's not just transactional, did you have a nice desert yesterday he does this all day everyday. he picks people's brains. he listens to them in ways where they'll still be talking about watching how you react in feeding back information. that worked and that didn't work and that strong and that's not drawn. the traditional model which is i wonder what we should do about x leaving 25 really bright

staffers three from the brookings institution and three from the young america's foundation fighting over the paper for seven weeks and finally da'ish his answers i think i will call the presence of three in the prime minister japan and see how it feels. the volume of information he takes him is astonishing. his willingness to be tough. this is not a guy who is afraid. it's not necessarily his courage. john paul ii is to say be not afraid. didn't say have courage. trump operates a lot like that. i have no idea what's going to happen in singapore but i think it's possible that they love a very successful meeting. i think it's also possible that morning about at this time they will walk out.

that's a range of options. we did a movie that was mentioned earlier shots at the ranch about the life of from oregon. we went to iceland and it was his little house where reagan and her child met in 1987. it's this great scene we had in the movie straight out of the news real where reagan was holding out for missile defense. gorbachev was at him on everything. we can have arms limitations and we can have this treaty or that treaty but you have to give up your missile tests. reagan kept saying no, not doing it. gorbachev said that we are not going to give you anything. reagan said well, then that's fine. we are not doing that. they walk outside and there's racing where reagan who was not

normally this aggressive is literally in gorbachev's face and saying you did this. you made a mistake. you screwed up. you are going to regret this. it's clear that reagan is really angry. i was in congress at the time about the sophisticated people came back and said this is a terrible mistake. he is such a good deal. six months later gorbachev came to washington and gave reagan every single thing you wanted. trump understands that model. the most powerful nation the world and you were the one applying sanctions and bring economic pressure to bear. you actually don't have to say yes. so be very interesting to see how he negotiates with kim jong

un next week. how about ipods and open for questions. here's a chance to be a journalist. they are going to rush up with the microphones. we have an exciting moment here. you have your first victim right here. you have to be more assertive and grab him when he walks past you. >> i wonder if many of the entrepreneurs you have mentioned paul allen elon musk jeff bezos they found a lot of their success in the previous eight years of the obama administration so i wonder how that correlates to trump's america. >> they were zones if the government hadn't been able to up yet.

most of america still relatively healthy despite a government. the impact of large government high taxes slows everything down they have the current regulatory and tax environment we would eat 50% further down the road than we are right now. right here. and then we'll come back over there. >> would the talk to people about how black unemployment is at its lowest in history the common response here is well donald trump's doing what obama was doing. >> all at would say is it's astonishing that in eight years where they never once got the growth rate above 2% we are being told it would be impossible to get the 3% through were told that trump was elected there would be a depression and we were told to get used to the

new normal. just put in new normal and search in your search engine and see how many left-wing economist show up saying you know people shouldn't be complaining. i was struck with this. i first would into office when jimmy carter was president and we have a really slow. macroeconomic growth with the high inflation rate and carter went on tv one night and he became known as -- but the essence of it was we all feel miserable because we are miserable and it's her own fault and all of your miserable and we blame you. the country thought about it and ronald reagan had this line he used in his campaign. he said a recession is when your brother-in-law's unemployed. depression is when you are unemployed. of recovery is when jimmy carter's unemployed. that was one of his themes. it's eerily similar. the left-wing knesset felt the

carter had the best economy could get and within a year and a half of reagan taking office he began to exclusively change everything. we are doing the same thing here. i think it's very hard to make the argument that you could say we'd still be a 2% growth and obama did ring us out with the long period of one or 2% growth so what's the difference in revenue and what's the difference in job creation between 2% growth in what's currently happening. trump claims he has added $7 trillion. his policies have added $7 trillion with policies. it's much more fun to say, i had $7 trillion. it's just a style he has which i think he learned very on early on as an entrepreneur. it's going to be very hard to

argue that if this continues then again we have a lot of things to make -- to do to make this continue but if it continues i think what you'll see is kanye west which is at what point do we get to this? i'm confident that if they work out an agreement in singapore and they walk out front and they announce that the north koreans are giving up their nuclear weapons by in wednesday evening "the news york times" headline will be dramatic effort by heroic kim jong-un despite trump's personality. somebody right there. >> i was just wondering if you look at president trump's

background he has actually been fairly liberal on a lot of issues in the past. he's pro-choice on the abortion questions in favor of socialized medicine. i believe after its 2012 presidential election he accused romney of being too conservative and heartless on immigration and yet he is a staunchly pro-life anti-illegal ella grace -- immigration president who wants to overturn obamacare. would he think the change in policy and i guess political direction i'm president trump spark? >> i always tell people trump is not a conservative. if you mean barry goldwater or ronald reagan and william f. luckily trump's the most effective anti-liberal in american history. it's not because he is conservative. it's because he applies common sense and so much of modern liberalism is and if you apply common sense of falls apart. i take seriously the story he

tells about the women he got to know who has been in wise to have an abortion and her daughter was with her as she was telling the story. that was the decisive moment did i give him that one. he also said he would contemplate legalizing marijuana you can't assume that trump is going to walk into the room having spent 30 years thinking this stuff through. reagan became, reagan originally was an fdr democrat and made commercials for harry truman and hubert humphrey. when hubert humphrey was the anti-communist liberal running against a procommunist liberal which tells you just how bad that period was and reagan became an anti-communist. when he married nancy her father was a very right-wing medical doctor and gradually through a series of conversations reagan began to be more and more

anti-tax. he was hired by general lack tech. the education of ronald reagan which i recommend very highly is a very short book about the times the 80 years he spent at general electric. he had as a mentor to have government regulations. i worked with reagan for years. when i read this book and understood what he was doing it was that decisive of a book. he learned from the sky. but around the country and gave three and 75 speeches to blue-collar audiences with q&a and with picture taking. the time he ran for president he was interacting with blue-collar workers talking about ideas but the guy who hired him as a very conservative person. reagan in 1946 to 1965 reagan refused to fly. he was in a very bad airplane

flight and i think they got caught in a thunderstorm. he didn't fly again until the fall of 1965. he gets a call one evening from his brother in san francisco who says they are a group of guys who would like to have breakfast with you in the morning to talk about supporting the governor. he said well you know i don't fly and we can't get to san francisco that fast. he said well you get to decide if you want to be governor. i will be at the wisenhunt up on him. next stay with reagan for the first time in 20 years gets on an airplane which tells you how vicious he was. he is riding a train and he didn't gamble and the world books. hayek for sample and freeman so reagan is reading conservative economics. trump didn't do any of that.

trump made money, he invented new things like "the apprentice" and golfed. he doesn't drink. it's not like he was hanging around being wasteful. he is a business guy and he's not a politician. his own ego sense that he could do a better job than anybody else because he got up that morning and said -- otherwise it wouldn't be donald j. trump. that is what propels him. i don't hold him to any kind of automatic ideological check this. what i will say though is when he makes a decision there is a real difference. it's almost like there to trump's. when it's a big decision the iran agreement which 2.5 years he said it was a bad deal. i had europeans approach me

before he ended the grimacing what can we do? you need to come up with a better deal. he's been saying this for two and a half years. it's not a secret. cutting taxes, deregulation, conservative judges. he is totally unpredictable. he couldn't protect himself because he's basically a free spirit on small things. i think your observation is exactly right. it's a very interesting question because trump evolved in part in response to an evolving reality and evolved in part a response to running a cerp hoboken populist in the field with 16 other people. over time he realized that he was going to put together face than he had to have a frame of reference that enabled him to

appeal to this large bloc of people. one of you has to go all the way over here. >> thank you for coming. nolan meyer. i met for dinner with former national security adviser h.r. might master the other night and he wanted me to send my regards to you. my question is when you are speaker of the house he wrote the contract of america. you seem to have an uncanny ability to work with president clinton and get things done. fast-forward 20 years later in a kind of seems like congress is in a perpetual state of gridlock what changes do you think we can make to get out of this and you think this is an issue of incompetence or partisanship? >> first of all we are not in a

perpetual state of gridlock. we just provided the largest tax cut in history of america and we passed a number of other bills. there's a very deep partisan divide and there are at least two parts to what's going on. the gap between the rich -- is much bigger and as i describe in "trump's america" i believe we are in a cultural several war and i mean that literally. these are profound differences in the nature of america. i think that makes it a real challenge. second you have to have the personality to deal with it. i personally would have had no idea how to deal with barack obama. i think he was opaque. barack obama got up every morning knowing the brightest burst on the family would treat you with contempt. and there was no way to break

through. i talked to boehner when he was speaker and i talked to ryan when he was speaker. if i had been speaker i don't know what i would have done because obama by personality is so hard to deal with. clinton for all of his weaknesses is in this domicile in opening human being. about a third of the time you would lie but you just got used to it. as part of the process. you could figure out after while which ones were true and which ones weren't in which once happened and which ones didn't. even a couple occasions that were very, very angry. you don't wear your feelings on your sleeve. this is the business you are in. the other part of that is the democrats right now to want to work with trump. their goal is for trump to fail.

i'm delighted mecom was going to keep the senate in an august. i think he should have done this earlier and i think it's okay but they clearly have no interest in cooperating particularly under the senate or the house leadership. but what i would done more of it is in this goes back to reagan i would figured out issues for the democrats to stay unified. i'd bring it up in such a way that the democratic leadership was consul and a pressure because one third of its members were saying i can't stay with you. i will get heat that comment by vote with you and that was the pressure that breaks apart that partisanship and frankly with trump he is endlessly patient. our legislative leader today i would recognize you have to spend a lot of time with him. you have to listen to them a lot you have to sort through what you are trying to get done and

you have to wear a seatbelt because every once in a while he will do something that you didn't expect and he can expect and you wouldn't have called you to tell you is going to do it so you have to have a seatbelt just to get to the car wreck. >> fernando, university of florida. you were talking about how deregulated the governments -- how do you see the government being deregulated or shrinking in the next couple of years? >> would stay with deregulated first-grader will continue the pressure to reduce the total number of regulations. i think they will continue to try to find every possible way

to make government leaner and faster and more efficient. i suspect they will do some attrition when people were tired but you have to handle that carefully. if you are in the middle of the cancer research project at the national institutes of health -- my guess is you'll be somewhat smaller by the time you are done with the exception that they are expanding homeland security and expanding the system. i think that will continue and giving the rise of a more dangerous world there really won't have any choice. >> right here, right in the middle. >> hi joiner with the university. my question is we are halfway

through trump's first term and a substantial amount of his first term -- where do you see the a company going in the second phase of this presents a? >> actually i divided "trump's america" into two parts. the first half is what we have accomplished up until now the second half is what we have to do in the challenges we have to meet. think if he continues down the road of deregulation and they continue to be very tough on trade negotiations the economy will then continue to grow dramatic way. i wouldn't be shocked to have 3.5 or four% real growth within the last for five years. somebody had and it may have been

the you would have overwhelmingly the majority population in farming. if you had said to them we are

going to be down to eye on what the current numbers and some of you may know the current number it's 3.5 to 4% of a country as farming and we produce a massive surplus which we have to sell somewhere. our farmers are so productive. the average person would have thought you are crazy. i think the same thing is true today. humans have a knack of inventing the next cycle of desirable things at a rate slightly faster than employments over time most of the jobs are better jobs with better salaries and better conditions. i also believed by the way that humans, your generation on average will be over 100. andy will be much healthier. 100 for your generation will probably be 60 and that big of a difference partly because the store colin people are worn out fiscally. he worked in a steel mill or you

plow behind a mule you get physically worn down. most of those nowadays we exercise but that's a volitional thing. you are not being burned out so people will live longer. henry kissinger is now 95 and he works full-time. he would be bored to death. i said to henry we are going to make you retire. he said i would be or to death. people who live longer are going to have a greater range of options. i think it requires to profound things. one is how do we build and this is why alike this model free to look at. we have to build on line convenient mentoring systems that allow you to learn conveniently so if you want to go to valley for six weeks and take your courses on line, don't care. i don't think you have to go to

a campus somewhere be available for two hours a week that the professor is available. only think about how inefficient the current structures are in second thought to rethink finances. i was talking to a relative of mine who is thinking he may retire from the company that he's worked with for 25 years and i said to have a penchant? he said no we never had a pension. we have a 401(k) that they match. we will have to be thinking in terms of each of you on average will have five to seven or more jobs in your lifetime, career kinds of jobs. you have to think about how you were going to change in how you are going to evolve. i worry reinvented myself or for times. people just learn to do that. >> i have an idea for your next

book. i think you are probably the most qualified to handle this but it could be donald trump's guide to creatively handling the ever-changing nature of world events. you could use a system of computers to have all the infinite number of possibilities of events that could be taking place at any given time and this is a reader participation thing. it's your job as a reader to come up with the most viable way of handling this problem and have the system of grading it for all those who should never run for president. >> under our rules anybody can run for president and the american people get to weed them out.

they don't do it because of some rational process. in the end it's who has the makings to be president? although you make a think of a game basically be your own present. the reagan library takes the granada operation and take students in and puts them in situation rooms and say you are now going to get information and you have to make the decision. you have to make it through and that's a pretty good ground rule >> mitchell sanders. he touched a bit on conservative fiscal policy and conservative attitude towards government deregulation. a larger portion of america is starting to agree with you on that however i think a lot of

people need to have conservatism as a social policy. i think a lot of people consider themselves conservative fiscally but more liberal socially. what do you need to do to combat that an adapter that? >> i think it works itself out in different ways. on the one front you could argue the whole question for example of marriage has moved particularly your generation towards what we call the left. .. >> this is a more complicated pattern. sometimes you build the majority around the issues so you can rally a majority with.

part of the politics is to focus on the ones he went on not the ones you loose on. one of the things i am proud of is that i help right the only for balance budgets in a lifetime. i think we will get back to that. we will do a series of short courses on how to balance the budgets. the country is getting right for reclaiming control of its destiny and being honest about what we have to get done. let me just go back to where we started. the young america's foundation is important. it's important because we need people like yourself who are willing to learn conservatism, debate conservatism, and stand up on campuses and newsrooms and other settings. in the long run, we it gives us

a high likelihood of running. it takes people like yourself who are willing to do the work and make the arguments. i'm honored to be here. thank you for letting me talk. [applause] [applause] >> thank you for being here today and for watching on c-span. for more information you can go to our website. the speaker will be taking photos in our lobbies. please exit and line up. there's stuff left over in the kitchen if you like to help yourself. i know you need to get back in for your next session. you have a copy of the book and we will do a photo line if you want another book you can ask

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