no new jobs. we have been in the doldrums. japan has been in the doldrums for 20 years. if we do the right thing and go back to our roots and look at our values and look at our constitution, we could be back on our feet in a year. [applause] >> thank you, congressman. i get asked this question again. what is your plan to shape your administration's energy policy and include how this differs from the current energy policy? >> my plan is that we need to produce energy the same way we produce cell phones. we need to get the government out of the way. we need a lot of competition. we need to deregulate.

i have spent in washington off and on for a good many years. i have met a lot of bureaucrats and politicians. they do not know anything about energy. they have the responsibility for providing the right environment. that is the market environment. that is the point i am making the cell phones. we have problems, but the market delivers the cell phones. could you imagine if they had one company? it would cost a lot of money and the cell phones would not work. we need to understand property rights. we need to understand contract rights. we need to understand competition. the obama administration does not understand any of this. i reject anything that they do.

they want to put on moratoriums on the suspending regulations. as soon as you can get to the concepts of property rights, all texas energy was developed without this. when we came into the union, we have no government property. out in the west, so much as government-owned land. we have to get private property owners. we need to get out of the way. [applause] >> if you could reverse one energy-related policy decision from the last three years, what would it be and what would you do differently? >> the overall policy of interference. the policy this administration has followed of intervention.

he follows a philosophy of economic intervention. you have to reverse the policy of keynesian economic intervention. 3 and still in the american people the idea of how free markets work and how honest money works. that has to happen. all of the policies that result from intervention disturb the markets. you cannot do that unless you have a lot of other things. in order to reverse that, you have to deregulate across the boards. you have to have a sound money system. who would generate the type of energy that we need? we do have the energy. there is no doubt about that. we do not understand the issue of property rights and competition. we are in this mess we are in. not deciding exactly where you

are going to buy your oil, i do not fear the fact that you might have imports. what if somebody wants to sell us something cheaper? you have to have freedom of choice. you have to have free markets in order to find out where the best deal is. that should be across the board with all products, not just energy. >> congressman paul, thank you for being here tonight. what would you do to prevent abortion on demand and defend traditional marriage? >> traditional marriages between a man and a woman. i have supported the defense of marriage act. and to protect the state's rights to make sure that the federal government never dictates or mandates the definition of marriage.

i think -- i have a bill in that has not been mentioned. we could accomplish a lot with marriage or abortion if wicks up one more principle. i want to change our courts and constitution. as an o.b. doctor, i know when life begins. i assume responsibility for two people. if i do harm to the fetus, i can be sued. there is no doubt about the morality and the legality of it. i support these efforts. my bill is called "we the people's act." we cannot wait until the courts change and not waiting to change the constitution. that is very, very difficult. lives could be saved by saying,

why do we not get roh vs. wade appealed by removing the jurisdiction of all of these issues from the federal courts? that is what we need to do. [applause] when roe vs. wade was the law in texas, it went to the supreme court. they nationalize it. i know it is tempting to wait for the courts to be changed and the amendment to be passed. it is taking too long. one of the biggest problems we got into, and i remember it so clearly because i went to that experience of watching the law changed in 1960, you can pass this with another law. it cannot be repealed. it could be done just by

majority vote is bank president would sign it. i would work very hard on that to revitalize that interest and to try to encourage people to say that it might not solve every single problem, but look at how much it could help. that is what i think we should do in the meantime until we finally solved the problem by changing the courts or changing the constitution. [applause] >> congressman, what would you do to restore fiscal responsibility and create promotion of jobs in the united states? >> the fiscal responsibility i alluded to in my opening remarks. it is related to the monetary system. it is related to the people's appetite for government. if we as a people continue to believe that we should have an

entitlement system from cradle to grave and we should be the policeman of the world and have 150 bases in 150 countries, 900 bases around the world, if we reject the admonition of the founders saying stay out of tangling alliances and the internal affairs of other nations, said you cannot do it. we have allowed this desire to do so much, the appetite to do more than we could afford. it took so long for us to destroy the productive capacity of this country. for a long time, we were the freest and most prosperous. then we try to overspend. then we raise taxes. then we borrowed. there was a limit to borrowing. we set the treasury bill over to the fed. they created the money out of thin air, which removes the

restraint on politicians. politicians get reelected by spending money. they brag about it and get reelected. what do they do? they destroy our jobs and chase them overseas and gave us a mountain of debt. if you could not have monetizing of debt, if it you did what the founders said, there were biblically oriented. they broke the rules themselves with the continental dollar. they destroyed the continental dollar. they were burned. they said, no paper money and only gold and silver could be used. we threw that out the window without amending the constitution. we introduced this corruption in the money and then an explosion of the debt. you will not get jobs back until the debt is taking care of.

the all the appropriation bill i've voted on was to help the veterans. we now have to deal with it. when you have lower interest rates and pure amid -- pyramiding of debt, you get debt that runs away. you have to get your debt down before you can get your own personal economy growing. we have had a 30 million increase in our population since 2000 and no new jobs. that is unsustainable. we have to look at monetary policy, foreign policy, and the restrictions would best be done to get our jobs back by having honest money. we have chased our jobs overseas because of bad economic policy. we have lost faith and

confidence about what a good economy is about. we have lost our determination to follow the rule of law and do only the things authorized in the constitution. if we did that, it would be a short period of time before we could be back on our feet again and have the jobs. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, congressman. please welcome a true and a consistent conservative, a defender of life, a strengthen our families, and outlawed partial birth abortions, former

senator rick santorum. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you very much. are you numb yet? i am very impressed that everybody is still here or the vast majority are still here. i am really excited to be back in iowa. this is my 5,403rd trip to iowa. a little exaggeration. he reminded me that i have 21 more counties to go. we are working very, very hard here. i know you have been to a louche with candidate after candidate talking about policy. i was tempted to do that. to hammer through some more

policy. i want to share some other things with you. to wrap up the evening and talk a little bit more about why i am here. i am here because karen and i have been married 21 years. we have seven children. we are blessed to have those children. we home school those children. i am here because i believe as newt said, this is the most important election since the election of 1860. we need a leader that we can trust. i said in my announcement speech that in 2008 the american people elected somebody that they could believe in. in this election, the american public will elect somebody that believes in them.

that is the fundamental difference. you have heard a lot of policy from a lot of people as to whether the folks that are delivering this are authentic. can they be trusted? are these the people that stood up when they had their opportunity and did what could be done? did they stand up and fight the tough battles. did they have the policy prescriptions? did they fight those fights or did they have the opportunity to fight those fights? when it comes to national security issues, i thought those fights. i introduced a bill on iran. the iran freedom support act. it was the accent -- existential threat to israel. at the time i said that the bigger threat was iran. that is what we need to be focused on. i introduced a bill in 2004 called the iran freedom support

act. i had no co-sponsors. nobody would sign on to that bill. within two years, it passed unanimously in the united states senate. they understood what i saw. it was a very unpopular war that was going on in iraq. that is going on today. i stood up and said here is the problem. we need to do something to overturn the government of iran. what is going on in iraq right now is that we are losing the battle to iran. they will be stronger when we leave. they are strong now. that is why we cannot get a deal with them. that is why we cannot protect our soldiers. the sphere of influence is growing. look at the attack the other day. the thwarted attack. there was a mistake that the iranians to focus here in america on the saudis.

the saudis are the head of the islamist world. they are the head of the islamic world. that is why they went after the saudis. they want -- iran wants to show that they are the ones that should be leading the islamic world in an islamist direction. they went after them here in the united states because they wanted to show the rest of the world that they are not afraid of going after the great satan. they believe that the president of the united states is too weak to respond. will not have the courage necessary to do this. if the obtain a nuclear weapon, iran will have a nuclear shield to do what we saw thwarted the other day on a day to day basis and not worry about what is going on with somebody potentially attacking them.

no nuclear power has ever been attacked. i was out on the front line before anybody saw this. i fought. i have been out there on the front lines on the issue of the economy. reducing the burden on our economy through these huge entitlement programs. i was the author of the welfare reform bill, not because it cut money, because it transformed lives. i am someone that looks at the basic economy of our country. you heard the debate on bloomberg. it was the debate on the economy. not one person beside me mention the basic economy, and that is the family. if we do not have strong families in this country, we will not have a strong economy. have been out there fighting

the fight on the economy. on cutting government back and strengthening the family. i wrote a book in response to hillary clinton's book. she wrote a book called, it takes a village. i wrote a book called, it takes a family. it is a policy prescription. 400 pages of how, if we're going to transform america. i understand what all of the folks are talking about. hopefully, what we are successful, it is whether we are going to cut taxes for higher income people or not. we have to unite them on something that is commonly shared. that is the sense of the first economy, the family. we have to unite them on how we are going to bring people together to strengthen the american families and strengthen

marriage. my economic plan is focused. we cut taxes and we do things. we focus on one very important thing. growing the opportunity for middle america to expand. i did it by focusing on the manufacturing sector of the economy. you allow people that are not college educated -- college education people are doing pretty well in our economy. we do not talk about that. let's talk about the family. let's talk about those that want to provide for their families and provide them a platform. if provide a society where jobs can grow and provide jobs for people that are skilled and semi-skilled. our plan does that. it can get bipartisan support to do that. i was in new hampshire and spoke to the bipartisan legislature. i went through my 0, 0, 0 plan.

0 is better than 9. it zeros out the corporate tax for manufacturers. zeros out taxes on profits that come back into the country. it will create jobs in this country. one of my supporters in the new hampshire the legislature said that two democrats came to them and said it they would like me to go into their we need to bring people together on the basics. this is a rally on faith in freedom. there was a book written recently were they interviewed a member of the chinese government

who had worked and tried to figure out what was going to make the difference in america, what made them the greatest country in the history of the world. you know what it turned up to be? first, what we thought this committee was put together, first we thought it was their economy. it's not of their economic system. then we thought it was the military'. it wasn't that. then we thought it was the governmental system. was not the. do you know what they decided? faith. people's beliefs in a transcendent god. [applause] ladies in dublin, and i dedicated my public career to all the things i talked about. i talked about national

security, the economy, cutting taxes, but the area i have dedicated and fought on the battlefield, i will give you a quote from yesterday, last night's bill maher show. rick santorum is like a japanese soldier after world war ii did not know that the war was over when it comes to the abortion issue and marriage and homosexual marriage. ladies and gentlemen, are those issues lost in america? are they lost? >> no. >> no, but we need to have a leader my understanding in their heart. and that will go out and fight for those. i've done that. i did that when i was in the united states house and the senate. i did not always do it. when i came to the senate, i did something happen to make. and then we heard some stories here of people and how they came to christ. i went to the united states

senate and i found the lord. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] and id i did it in the one of te most casual ways. ended up going to a bible study by an amazing creature by the name of lloyd josn. hn. karen and i became on fire with our faith. as a result of that, i decided that i had a purpose of being in the senate. i was not quite sure what it was. and then there was this bill that came up called partial birth abortion. and i looked at this and i said, you know, i am a senator from pennsylvania. it is a tough state. it is the state measure probably keep my head down and do what most folks up here do, check the boxes, but not released up out. and i decided no more. that is why i am here. i went to the floor of the

senate and i fought the battle. i fought the battle on overturning president clinton's veto on the partial birth abortion ban. i fought in 1996 and again in 1998 and again in 2000. and then the supreme court struck down the nebraska statute. we kept losing because he could not override the president's veto, but i kept fighting. and then in 2002 -- in 2001 president bush was elected. i went with a group of folks in the house and i said, look, the supreme court struck down the depressed a statue. -- the nebraska status. te. let's get together and pass a bill that says at the front, the supreme court, you are wrong and lays out the case as to why they are wrong. we passed that bill, it was signed by the president. it was appealed to the supreme court and the supreme court reversed their decision and found in favor of it being

constitutional. [applause] that -- that. i hear a lot of theory. that is practice. your your folks saying it weakens stand up to the court. i did it. we took on the united states supreme court and we took on the issue of abortion and beat them. we took them on, because it is a passion in my life. why? i wish your story as i close. a story that happened right at the end of the first debate on partial birth abortion. there was a discussion on the final day. it was dianne feinstein. started talking talkinghow how, and this was the reason for partial birth abortion, mothers and fathers found out late in pregnancy that the baby there were expecting was not exactly what they were expecting.

the baby was somehow not perfect, and therefore, late in pregnancy there wanted to terminate the pregnancy. sir dianne feinstein got up and talked about how mothers find out that they have an abnormal baby that maybe can not, does not have the ears or eyes or has organs that are outside of the baby. basically saying that we need to cull the disabled and the will. i will call you what i said. i said, think about the message we are sending to the less than perfect children in america. and the mothers who are right now dealing with the possibility of delivering an abnormal baby. my wife is due in march and we have not had a sonogram. we're hopeful everything is fine. but what message are you sending to meet if i look at that sonogram and a week or two and things are not just right? a week later, karen and i went in for that sonogram and the doctor went over and kept going

over this one area. we were there with our three little children. he looked at us and said, your son has a fatal defect and is going to die. we packed up the kids as quickly as we could, we went into the car and cried and cried. and i made the decision and said, we're going to do something about it. i had just been of the children's hospital in philadelphia the week before and had a meeting with a doctor who had done as a breakthrough intrauterine surgery. so i called them. he said, i do not know if we can help, but come on up. after a few days, they figured out they could do something. of course, they recommended an abortion. of course, we told them no. why? why would we killed our sons? why if your child is in trouble would you not do

everything you can to help them? the surgery was done. it was a miracle. it worked. we came home the next day. we head to head to a family reunion, a 50th wedding anniversary of my wife's parents and his birth. the next day, i am driving to an appointment and i get a call from my sister-in-law. come home. karen's running a high fever. we were told that everything would probably go all right unless she ran a high fever. so i came back home. her fever was 103, and she was in labor. we knew what was going on. she had something call -- the placenta that was holding our son was infected in the body was trying to expel it. we went through hours of horror, as we wanted to save

our child, but yet could not save our child. he was delivered in the middle of the night. he was born alive, but far too small to survive. and we held him for 2 horus. urs. it was 2 hours where he knew only love. not a bad life. the next day to come home so our children could know that they had a little brother, that he was real, he was a person. he had dignity, and he was part of our family. karen and i stumbled along. i remember talking to the pastor said, pray for the gift of understanding. i did not want to. i was angry.

i had committed myself to the lord. i was doing the brave and a road thing of standing up for life, risking my political career in pennsylvania, and this was my answer. you take my son. karen did more. she wrote, she kept writing. she wrote letters. she always did with all our children from the time there were born, from the time that we have found out about their pregnancy, she would have the sonogram pictures and diaries and notes, just telling the kids what the life was like, because we knew at the moment of conception that was our son or daughter. she kept writing those letters and about a month later, her mother came to see her and she read all of the letters. she said, you should publish tghem. hem.

maybe they will heal somebody. she published a book called the "letters to gabriel." --ere is not a month ago b that goes by that i do not meet somebody whose life was saved, whose baby was delivered, or whose burden was lessened. i tell my children that if you cnan do for god and for life what your little brother did in2 2 hours, you will be a great warrior for god. [applause] one final story. it is from the last page of karen's book. it is a letter to our son.

it read as follows, " during the partial birth abortion debate, a senator, senator boxer, was thanking the women who had partial birth abortions from coming forward with their stories. there were women in between the elevator of the senate office building and the senate chamber itself would have this procedure, and they work buttonholing senators trying to get them to vote against the bill. she says, "they're crying. they are crying because they do not understand how senators could take away an option. they are crying because they do not believe the senator is truly understand what this meant for their families." karen continues. "daddy said in response, the senator says she hears the cries of women outside this chamber. we would be deafened by the

cries of the children who are not here to cry because of this ." procedure. "the washington post" described what happened next. republican senator rick santorum turned to face the opposition and a high pleading voice, cried out, "where do we draw the line?" some people have likened this procedure to an appendix -- an appendectomy. that is not an appendix, he shouted. that is not a blob of tissue. it is a baby. it's a baby. and then impossibly, in an hushed gallery, in one of those moments when the florida senate looks like a stage set, with its small wooden desks some up to for the matters at

hand, the cry of a baby per se the room, echoing across the hallway and enjoy it across the chamber from the outside hallway. no one mentioned the cry, before few seconds no one spoke. a coincidence? perhaps. a visitor is a baby was crying as the door of the senate gallery opened at the precise moment and closed. or maybe it was the cry from the son whose voice we never heard but who has changed our lives forever. you want to know why i'm pro life? do you want to know why i stand up and fight for the family and marriage? because god showed me that if you are faithful, he will be faithful.

ladies and gentlemen, we need people who are leaders in this country who believe that, who believe that the faceless of god, that he is blessed this country and each and every one of us. and if we stand in our faithful and fear not, that this country again could have or rebirth of freedom like we have never seen before. thank you. god bless. [applause] >> senator, thank you so much for being here tonight. the first question is what would you specifically do to prevent abortion on demand and defend traditional marriage? >> i think it is important when

you hear this question to understand it is a question about marriage and abortion. everybody upar here say, most everybody, say they support traditional marriage and support a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. but you also hear, if you listen to the debates, people say that while they may support a constitutional amendment, they do not support getting involved in the states and doing something to make sure the state's don't pass, either through judicial fiat or through legislation, marriage different than one man and one woman. and that is all the difference. when i first account -- there has been one vote on the floor of the senate on the issue of the federal marriage amendment. and i forced it. when i was there. there has not been 1 cents. one since. i forced it.

we lost. but we had the debate. we went for the right solution. youle up here will tell there are for that, but will they push the debate? will they have the vote? will they take it to the american people? one way you can tell how convicted they are as when they go to the states and fight it with a fight is? i will. i did. i came to iowa last year. i campaigned here in iowa against the three supreme court justices to delivered same-sex marriage to iowa. and i will come back, no matter what i will come back and make sure that onot only do we defeat those justices, but we go to every state. why? because if we do not, then one by one these little states or judicial opinions will come down, and the supreme court will say that we cannot have all

these different definitions of marriage, just like they did with abortion. it is the same game plan. so when people stand up and say, i am for marriage but i will not do anything about the states because of the 10th amendment. the 10th amendment does not allow -- abraham lincoln said it best. it does not allow states the right to do wrong. [applause] if the state of iowa wanted to pass a gun hand, what all these folks say that the state had the right to do whatever they want? i would not. no way. this leads to the other issue, which is what are you going to do about the issue of abortion? you've heard some people stand up here and say i would vote for a constitutional amendment. did they? did they ever sponsor it? did they ever try to fight to get it voted for, when they had the opportunity? i did. yes, i fought for partial birth.

and i know there is a battle and know it is uncomfortable, but it is an important battle to have. we stand it on the 50 yard line and throw hail marys, try to get constitutional amendments adopted, or do we try to get a couple of the arts? i was just at the new mexico at state football game. i apologize for that. do we try to get something passed like partial birth or fetal pain or other things? here is the issue. are the folks who are trying to do these incremental measures committed to scoring a touchdown? or are they just trying to pad their stats? are they just trying to make a few first downs to keep everybody happy in the pro-life movement and really not convicted to push that ball down

field? my feeling is as a good offensive coordinator -- and that is what i was in the senate, i was an offensive coordinator on the life issue. i was trying to move the ball down the field. might issue on that is, you know what? yes. take your gains, but sometimes as you know, you have to stretch the field. you have to mix up the defense a little bit. and you have to go for those long passes. whether it is the person had amendment or what ever disappeared the other thing is, we have to have a discussion when it comes to what we can do. there is a lot of things that the president can do. mexico city. we can appeal the obama-care on making businesses carry abortion policies. we can get rid of the conscious plus protection that does not protect people from

providing abortifacient and other drugs. we can go to the legislature. we can do those things. we can do it in the context of saying, this is a human life from the moment of conception. and it is wrong -- [laughter] [applause] ca- [applause] we will take these few yards and we are coming back because we will not differentiate what is it legal and biological fallacy, that is human life is not a person. that human life is different because it is located in the woman as opposed to outside. some of you may half remembered the debate i had with barbara boxer on when a child was born. we were talking about partial birth, and the partial birth abortion bill. the baby was delivered all but the head. by esther, what of the baby was delivered alal but the foot?

could you kill the baby then? it is on youtube. look at it. for five minutes, she cannot and will not answer the question. we started the debate with her a standing right there. by the end of the debate, she is at the back of the senate chamber trying to get out because she could not answer what is the truth, that it's an artificial line that we draw, and we have to have the courage to say the truth no matter what legislation we are bringing forward. >> the next question is what would you do to restore fiscal responsibility and promote creation of jobs? >> i talked about my 0 0 0 stance, as to how we will bring a manufacturing base and grow the middle of america again. i also talked about what i did in the area of trying to reduce government spending. yes, we need to do to the rest of programs in washington d.c.

food stamps, medicaid, housing programs, education and training, all of these programs have no business being in the federal government. we should do to them what we did with welfare. block grant them. send them back to the states. give the states the flexibility to implement the programs. and output requirements. what we did with welfare. i had two things required. they were then two basics are refused to negotiate on. we need to have a time limit on welfare and a work requirement. people should not be able to get government benefits unless you're disabled or working for them are on for a short period of time. that is the deal. that is why we named welfare temporary assistance for needy families as opposed to aid to families with dependent children. that is one idea. here is the big idea, which is the balanced budget amendment. i was for cap and balance, but i

argued that what we needed was balance balance and balance. we were focused on cuts. what we should of been focusing on is focusing on the american public saying that we need to balance this budget. and we can do it. we can do it over a period of years. if you pass an amendment, it takes five years for it to be ratified. it takes five years after that to be implemented. you are talking 7-a years. it is plenty of time to get to a balanced budget, but you put all wall. one of the things i learned in washington d.c., and you learn a lot with experience -- you learn how the other side thinks, how they act, and all the tracks. the one thing i do know is that the only way he will change the way things operate in washington d.c. is to change the rules of the game. that means you have to make it painful. have to put a wall. do you know what day of the week

almost every bill passes? thursday night or friday. why? because people want to go home for the weekend. it is a wall. it creates a backstop. read a backstop. i pledge to not only will i try to pass our economic plan. and we will reform these entitlements, but i will go across this country and we will get the american public, just like we did with welfare, we will get the american public behind a balanced budget amendment to put fiscal sanity and maintain freedom in this country. [applause] >> thank you. one last time i get asked this question. what is your comprehensive plan and to shape your future administration's energy policy and please include how this bill -- mission would differ from the approach of the current administration. >> i share with everybody else that the reason there is a deliberate attempt by this

administration to destroyed the energy future of this country or are they incompetent? pick "a" or "b." at the current rate of extraction, we have 263 years left of oil in this country. we have 300 years of coal, which may be going up, not because we found more but we are producing less under this administration because you cannot get a permit. and they are in the process of deregulation and shutting down 60 power plants. we will be to the point where you turn on the switch and it will be russian roulette. is it going on or not, because of this administration. and what they are doing to our power supply. and of course natural gas. it was mentioned earlier. we found the second-largest find of natural gas in the world under mostly pennsylvania. we are drilling 3000 wells a year. and guess what happened to the

natural gas price? you heard the president earlier this year give his energy speech. he gives an energy speech every year. and he gives this energy speech and he says, a drill baby turtle was a joke -- baby drill was a joke. they made fun of it. this was at cleveland state. all listings are laughing. julian does not work. supply does not work. it is like a teacher at the school, instead of economic 101 he went to economics 50 1/2. he ignored supply. the only way to reduce prices by reducing demand. well, guess what happened to the natural gas price as a result of what is going on in pennsylvania? when i left the senate six years ago, the gas prices was about $12. it is $3.60. supply works. [applause]

we need to drill in pennsylvania and alaska and offshore and wherever we can. we need to have an energy policy. and i disagree with the speaker on this. we do not disagree on much. he wants to fund everything. i want to cut every subsidy. let the marketplace work. [applause] and that includes for oil and gas. we need to cut all the subsidies, let the market work. i agree with newt. i learned a lot coming here to iowa about the efficiencies created. i have no doubt that this industry can compete. let it compete on an even playing field with the rest of the energy options in this country. [applause] >> the last question would be if you could reverse one energy related policy decision from the

last three years what would it be and what would you have done differently? >> i think i agree with everybody else that the moratorium on gulf drilling was an outrageous cost to the taxpayers. lost revenue. it was an outrageous cost to the people of louisiana and texas, that area country after being devastated. it was devastated again by the actions of this administration. i would say to you that we need an administration, a president who has common sense. in my book "it takes a family," i said liberalism is an ideology. look of the presence job package. it is the same as it was before. failure. abject his answer is propose more of the same. why? because liberalism is an ideology, not based on fact or

real-world experience. conservatism as i defined it is stewardship of patrimony. fancy words that mean taking what we know is good, what wek n know of true is of nature and ordereds god, how we are in our world. taking those natural laws and taking what has worked and applying what our founders created, which was free people, free markets, and the ability to be able to pursue not just your dreams but god's will in your life. you allow that to continue in america, you allow people to transform this country like we did in 1776. i remind everybody, at the time of the founding of this country, life expectancy in america as it was in most of the west was 35- 40 years of age. the same as it was at the time

of jesus christ. we were an agrarian society, the same as it was at the time of jesus christ. 1800 years of kings and emperors ruling the world and the human condition did not change. then america, the declaration, rights coming from the god of abraham isaac and jacob and his laws in order to serve him, as i said in our declaration. in 235 years, life expectancy has doubled. we have been through ed industrial and technology revolution. the poorest person in america today is wealthier than the wealthiest person. wealthy from the standpoint of creature comforts, the wealthiest person 50 years ago. how many of you want to go to a hospital that is 50 years old? how many of you want telecommunication that is 50 years old? 9% of americans have cell phones? why? because we have limited government and we have a

president and leaders in washington who believed in you. please, i asked your help and support. elect someone who has proven that they will stand up for the values that made this country great and be able to win elections in states like pennsylvania, so we guarantee that we have a republican president in this next election. thank you all very much and god bless. [applause] >> thank you, senator. now we invite pastor of the desmoines church of christ to give the benediction. would you stand as we pray? >> we thank you, heavily father, for your grace to us in

spite of we are and as a nation, father, we are seeking a new leader. our current leader has turned its back on righteousness and truth and is leading us further into decadence as a nation. and even though there is a cacophony of voices in our current culture that say that we are antiquated fools for following you, father, we know you are the only place we can turn as we seek out a new leader. so we ask you, father, to help us elect a leader that is a true christian, one who is guided by your word and your spirit and is a person who desires to make his or her days count for the kingdom of christ. we ask for a leader whose commitment to christ and love of country compel him or her to stand for truth and righteousness in government. we need a leader who recognizes

that he or she will ultimately give account to you, father. we know, lord, the time is waning, and the day will soon arrive. let us not squander what you have given to us as a people. our nation is a true blessing. and we ask, father, that you hear our prayer and the name of christ jesus our lord and savior, amen. [applause] >> thank you for attending. have a safe trip. thank you. ♪ ♪

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>> good story. really inspiring. >> great job. >> won't be long now. [inaudible] >>

>> now i need your help, ok? >> [inaudible]

to be in guthrie county monday. why don't you give us your name? we will get in touch with you. >> thank you very much. >> i'm leaning your way. i was newt, between you and newt. [inaudible] you both have the experience. >> god bless. >> very nice, great speech.

i remember listening to -- what yera waar was that? born in 1990 -- i remember crying. 's got invovlelved in bushs campaign when we were able to. >> sign them up. >> thank you. >> [inaudible] i was ready to start crying. [inaudible] it came from the heart, and this is important. that is one thing we know about you. going to the straw poll, you were the only one that brought the whole family. >> appreciate that.

>> i have my picture up front. that was me. i tracked you down. >> you saw me play baseball? >> i'm still trying to get you and your people to commit -- [inaudible] >> i follow you on facebook. >> thank you. >> [inaudible] >> can i get one more photo? >> come on. get in there. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> good luck.

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where we see it, to establish good in the public arena and to help those who a hurting and would otherwise be left behind. we believe we have been given a great birthright, a priceless inheritance by those who came before us in the form of the constitution of the united states, the bill of rights, and the declaration of independence. we want the government in washington to return to that blue paint and do nothing further beyond that blueprint -- that blueprint and do nothing further beyond that blueprints. . [applause] sometimes, we bring forward issues that others might prefer not to talk about. we are compelled to do so.

like the fact every human being is made in the amazon of almighty god -- image of almighty god and every being is worthy of our love and our protection. on that we cannot and will not retreat. [applause] as three members of the iowa state supreme court found out the hard way, we believe marriage should be defined as a sacred union between a man and a woman as the essential building block of our society. [applause] we believe the federal government should have to balance its books every month just like we have to sit down at our kitchen table and balance our checkbooks every month and live within their means. [applause]

now we have a key ally in this struggle, especially on the fiscal issue, in the tea party movement. how many of you are active in some way, shape, or form in the tea party in iowa? good for you. i notice they have been taking your name in vain recently. have you heard some of the ings they have been saying about you? jimmy hoffa said you should be "taken out." when a teamster leader says you should be taken out, he does not mean to dinner. this was at a rally for the president of the united states. nancy pelosi compared you to not seize -- nazis, which is part of the reason she is the former

speaker of the house and john boehner is the speaker. [applause] and then there is joe biden. he has become a punch line. just the mention of his name. he compared you to terrorists. can you imagine? i have news for hoffa, pelosi and biden and the people who smear you and attack you every day. that is, our right to organize, to speak out, and to petition our government has been purchased with the blood of those who paid the ultimate price that we might be free. they now saw around us as the apostle paul so eloquently said, -- now surround us.

we will not be silent. we will not be intimidated and we will not go away until america is restored to the principles upon which sheas founded. [applause] let me tell you what igoing to happen here in iowa and nationally in the next 12 months as a result of this organization, the faith and freedom coalition. we are going to distribute over 40 million voter guides in americ's evangelical an pro- family churches. we are going to build a profile of socially conservative voter , a voter file that will be 27 million voters strong. we are going to contact every one of those voters 7-12 times.

we are going to mail them, telephoned them, and e-mail them. if they have not vote by election day, we are going to pick them up and take them to the polls and to make sure they vote. [applause] and when the dust settles, barack obama and michelle obama are going to be packing boxes into a moving van that is going to pull up to 1600 pennsylvania avenue and he is going to go back to chicago where he belongs. [applause] on january 20, when the new president that you have helped the let finishes taking their oath of office, that present is going to walk into a room in the capital. a few minutes after that inaugural ceremony, they are going to sign into law legislation that has already been passed by a republican and

senate house repealing obamacare and leaving it on the ash heap of history where it belongs. [applause] ronald reagan once said the closest thing to eternal life on this planet is a federal program. this time, it is gng to be different. in order for this to happen, we are going to have to work harder than we have ever worked. we are going to have to give more than we have ever given and we are going to have to pray for our country like we have never pred. there is a bucket on every single table. i want somebody at every table to hold up those buckets right now. there are white envopes in every single one of them. pass those envelopes out at that table right now. i want every single person in

this room -- we should probably exempt children under the age of six. anyone over the age of seven, i want you to put something in this envelope for the effort of steve and his leadership team at the iowa faith & freedom coalition. get out a check. put some cash in. we take credit cards. there is a place to put a credit card number on that. pour them in the bucket. use a pen, a pencil, cut your finger if you need to. sellout that check and put it in this tombolo we are going -- fill out that check and put it in that envelope. thank you very much. god bless you and god bless the

great state of iowa. [applause] >> thank you, ralph. there is a special senate election on november 8 that will tie the sate 25-25. you need to put some people in a car d head over there and help those people door knock and make phone calls. this will send a message. please help out where you can. at this time, i want to introduce a good friend of mine. a guy who came to the helm of the republican national committee in january of this year. he was one of five candidates running for chairman. i was one of s early supporters. i was convinced he was the best person to lead our party toward

victory in 2012. in wisconsin, they took that the state senate and picked up two new congressional seats. they picked a new republican governor, probably the most colorful and at the conservatives in our movement, scott walker, who has taken on the big unions. this man is going to resurrect his party and bring us great victories in 2012. my friend, reince priebus.

>> thank you for the great work here tonight. this ian incredible show in here tonight. as a follower of christ, this is an honor and a blessing to be here tonight. when steve asked me to come by, i said yes, absolutely. i want to brag on one of his partners, the national committeewoman from iowa. where are you, kim? thank you to you. let put on my party had for a second. you have a serious iowa gop here. matt is not here tonight. i want to say thank you to matt for running a great organization. i have good news for you in

iowa. a few hours ago, it is official. nevada will hold their caucus on february 4. iowa will be the first caucus in america, the first contest in america. it is true. my name is really reince priebus. it is true. i know it is a bizarre name. i am a regular guy. my son's name is jack. my daughter is grace. my father is richard. my sister is married. ie. i got reince. it is what happens when a greek and a german get married. it is a cultural disaster. i am learning to live with it. the eighth and freedom. it is your cause.

it is our cost-. cause. we fight for freedom. we stand for faith. they have long defined america. not separately, but together. a and free them inextricably, intertwined. -- f mayaith and -- faith and rate them. inextricably intertwined. my family is greek. in greek, grandfather ispa papoo. as and a hero, i love to my grandpa. an 8 year old, i love my grandpa. he loved politics. i remember going to greece as a

nine year-old guy. i remember walking on the balcony and seeing a new democracy flag. there are three parties in greece. there is the new democracy party. there are the socialists. and the is the kke, which are the communists. next to the new democracy flag in downtown athens was an equally large american flag out on the balcony. i remember my papoo coming back to kenosha, wisconsin, where i grew up. americans go there for a week and we raced back. papoo, they come for a couple of months. i can remember nine, 10 years old, sitting on the couch for hours, listening to my papoo tell me stories.

you remember the world of books, the old encyclopedia's? he would read a -- links all--- old encyclopedias? he would tell me stories hours at a time. it did not matter who it was. everybody had a story. i do not think most of them were te. he loved everything and every little detail abouamica. he loved this country. he was not from here. that h a profound impact on me growing up, nine, 10 years old. i remember when we first moved the family out to washington a few months ago. i have a little guy by the name of jack. he is 6.

i brought adapt to the world war ii memorial. i remember standing in front of that memorial with over 4000 gold stars representing 100 lives lost in world war ii. in front of those stars, and chiselled in the granite, it says, here it marked the price of freedom. i happen to bieve we are in a battle for freedom in this country. i know that not a single person is here -- i am not standing in front of you as the chairman of the republican national committee because i am concerned about the future of the reblican party. i am not concerned about the future of the republican party. i love the party. the party was founded in wisconsin in 1854.

i love the party. i am not here and you are not here because of anything like that. i am here because i am concerned about the future of this country. i believe we are in a battle for freedom. it is the same battle of freedom that found in our country. it is the same battle of eedom that change madison, reaffirmed in the bill of rights. is the same battle that form our party. here we are today. it is a battle for freedom between government's insatiable appetite to grow and what is born in every american heart, which is unique to america. individual and economic freedom. that is where we are today. we have a great debate in

america starting right now. that debate is, do you want to have a country of makers 41 to have a country of takers -- makers or do you want to have a country of takers? when my son jack is my age, it is going to cost 45 cents on every dollar made in america -- 45 on every dollar made in america to run the federal government. that is a battle for freedom. if you know people who do not think that is a battle for freedom, what is. what if it is 72 cents, 82 cents, 99 cents on every dollar made in america just to run the federal government.

we are in a battle for freedom. i am sure you have heard that the president -- what he was up to this week. he is on another bus toward paid for by the taxpayers. he says we are not campaigning. there is nothing to see. they just happen to run the bus through virginia, ohio, north carolina. they are not going to montana or utah. they are going through every battlegroundtate in america. this president is obsessed with politics. the politics cannot create good jobs. good speeches do not create good jobs. the president has a love affair. that love affair he has is with the sound of his own voice.

he does not love fallen through on his promis, does he? the president says he wants to reduce the deficit and the debt ceiling and wasteful spending in washington. here is the problem. the rhetoric does not match the results. he says he wan to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. what did he do? he introduced the biggest structural deficit in the history of the world. not a single democrat in the senate vote for it. he said he wanted to get the debt under control.

on this trajectory, our debt will be twice our entire economy. that is the economic definition of bankruptcy. a government that has to surrender its sovereignty to its bondholders cannot guarantee prosperity our freedom to anybody. in a country that buries its kids in an avalanche of that cannot rest in any bested of the moral high ground.

a country controlled by china cannot compete with china. we have all beeblessed in this room. in different ways. after it is all said and done, there is nothing but thankfulness and gratefulness to god for all of the blessin in our lives. me included. i am just blessed and grateful that god gave us a hard to care about the future of our country and about what is happening in our government. there is no such thing as a perfect candidate. there is only one perfect person who walked the face of this earth. i plan on running the party by the concept of addion and multiplication, not subtraction and division.

we have so much to fight for in this election. we are going to come together. i want you to know that the repuican party, the rnc, the iowa gop -- we are here to work with you. this party is not in competition with the conservative movement. this party is part of the conservative movement. i intend to keep it that way. i intend to work with you. together, we can come up with the best stimulus plan for this country. economists from los angeles to new york, people like paul ryan and mitch daniels would sign up for our stimulus plan and here it is. fre barack obama -- fire barack obama and put a republican in

the white house and put america back to work. god bless you and have a great night. [applause] >> after my brief introduction, for a few seconds, the candidate will give a speech for 10 minutes. the senator will be asking questions of the iowa energy forum. steve will be asking questions to the candidate. at this time, we request the senator and steve to take their seats at the front table here. [applause]

in the interest of time, please give only brief applause when a candidate is coming to speak and when the candidate is leaving after completing the answer to the fourth question. first candidate. please welcome the plane talking -- plain talking, rapidly rising, n nonsense, non-politician and businessman, former ceo of not father -- of herman cain.izza, >> thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you very much.