waiver from obamacare to all 50 states so we can stop obamacare in its tracks. [applause] >> and i'll go on to find legislation -- to file legislation to repeal obamacare and to instead return to the states their constitutional responsibility and right to care for the needs of their poor and those that are uninsured. that's one item. number two, i will direct the secretary of energy to provide licenses to drillers, wildcatters, gas drillers, to start developing our energy resources in this country and get the oil and gas that we need. that's number two. [applause] >> number three, and this is a little controversial. i will designate china as a currency manipulator. under our law, that allows the president to apply tariffs where the president believes that chinese currency manipulation has cost american

jobs or is unfair. i'll look at what they've done with regards to stealing technology, intellectual property, designs, patents and so forth as well as where they hacked into computers to steal technology and will apply those tariffs where i believe they're necessary to make sure that they understand we're not going to allow them any more to play on an uneven playing field. that's the next. i will also make sure that the president's policy, he said, look, you can't work on a federal work site unless it's a union organization. i'm going to say, no, no, it ought to be a level playing field. i'll change that executive order as well. there's something else i want to do and will do this on day one and that is i'll file a piece of legislation that relates to taxes for employers. this goes back to what governor pawlenty mentioned. we have right now the highest taxes in the world for employers. we're tied with japan. europe is about 10 points lower for employers. we're about 35% tax rate. europe is about 25%.

i'll bring our rate down to 25% for employers and take out some special deductions and exemptions that companies currently get so we don't lose revenue. but at the same time bring our rates down so that businesses are able to stay in this country and not have to pay higher taxes to do so. otherwise, they'll leave. i don't want businesses to leave here going elsewhere because they can get a huge tax break. i want the jobs to stay here. and there's something else i'll do. and it relates to taxation and the other big burden on small business. and that's regulation. sometimes in my party i think we misspeak. we say we're for deregulation. well, what we mean by that is it regulation has become too heavy and burdensome, we want to shrink it down but we don't want zero regulation. you have to have regulation and law to make a market work, to let players know how to compete with each other. but i want to get our regulation down to be -- to be

supportive of industry rather than overwhelming and burdening industry. and i've watched this president and his administration has been out of control when it comes to regulations. the rate of regulatory introduction in this country, new regulations, has quadrupled under this president. and so i will on day one put a halt to all the regulations that were put in during the obama years and then i'll take a look at them one by one and get rid of any of those that are costing american jobs. those are the first things i'll get going on day one and the list goes lorninge. i've got an economic plan that includes 59 different steps we'll get going on them from the very beginning. thank you for the question. thank you. [applause] what are you planning on doing

for agriculture? it is hard to get started. machinery is terribly expensive. we have large farmers that are using themselves and their employees to get tax dollars from the government for their farm program. i think we should completely do away with the farm program. they can sink or swim on their own. get some incentives to get young people back in there. >> i love the idea of having people who want to have a chance of starting a farm have that dream come true. i had the chance when i was 15 to work on a ranch in idaho. my awful later in his life had gotten out of the business world -- my uncle later in his life had gotten out of the business world and bought a ranch. the work there was real tough.

i loved it. it was one of the greatest experiences to work on that ranch. for people who want to work in farming, that is a wonderful thing. what of the biggest challenges we have in agriculture today is getting pilons. i have talked to community bankers and say how come i keep hearing you are not providing loans like you have in the past? what i hear from them is a bill called dodd-frank has scared the dickens out of them. they have pulled back, not sure if they will pass inspection from government inspectors. as they pull back, it makes it harder and harder for young people get the loans they need to get started in farming. i'd like to change that. there is another thing i would like to do. this is also controversial. some of my friends. we should not worry about ethanol. i actually like the fact that ethanol as part of our energy mix.

in my view, ethanol is an important part of our energy security. i do not want to keep sending money overseas to buy energy there when we have resources here. one of the renewable resources is ethanol. i believe the subsidy put in place and in the past made sense to get the industry going. that subsidy is going away because the industry is on its feet. i wrote believe the renewable fuel standards should be kept in place so people will invest in the agriculture sector. it has been good for agriculture. it has been tougher for people trying to buy a farm because prices for land have gone up. i want to keep the american agricultural system alive and well. i do not want to -- i do not want to see us do to forming what we have done to manufacturing. we have allow manufacturing to leave this country. i do not want to see that happen to agriculture. thank you. i appreciate it.

[applause] yes, ma'am. >> there will be many more caucuses this year. you do not have to worry about getting their an hour early. >> that is great. by the way, if you are voting for me, the date is january 3. [laughter] the other folks are taking theirs on january 4. [laughter] just kidding. yes, sir? >> what do you plan on doing to get "in god we trust" back into this country again. our children cannot celebrate christmas without fear of offending someone else. i would like to see that back in this country again. "i know there are some people who would like to make this nation a secular nation, who want to take god out of everything that exists in our country. they say it is constitutional. it is hard to the fact that the

declaration of independence notes that we were in doubt by our creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. how you take god out of america with the declaration points out it was god who gave us those rights and in the first place? i believe we should be able to have religious ornamentation and celebration in the public square. whether that is a manger, a menorah, or representatives of other faiths -- it is important to recognize that we look to god for many of our blessings. i have had the chance to read some of the stories -- i have had the chance, i am sure you have, to read some of these stories about the early days of the revolution and how many times we were in a tight spot. and how many times george washington felt that it was only through the blessings of providence that this nation was able to become a free and able to win our independence militarily. we have been blessed by our

creator. i think it's appropriate for us to recognize that in the public square. i think that at school celebrations, we should be able to have prayer there. i am not looking for teachers to have prayer every day in the classroom, but i do think at special ceremonies, graduation, football games, and the like, that calling on our creator is a good idea. and to recognize that on this earth, they're sending more than just ourselves. -- there is something more than just ourselves. by the way, i know there are a lot of people that do not believe in god, and that is their right. we do not want to impose on those folks. one of those things i love about the country is that whether you are believing or non-believing, you typically have something that is more important to you in your life than just yourself. it is the great thing about our country. we are bigger than ourselves. we're willing to sacrifice for things to believe in. for many of us, it is our god. for others, it is our country and our family, the future of

this country. those things combined to be a great source of sacrifice. it is part of who we are. we live person to greater than -- we live for something > -- bigger than ourselves in this country. if we lose that, we lose a great deal of what makes america american. i love the stories of that french historian, the french historian came here long ago and tried to understand what made america an extraordinary land. one of those things was our willingness to help care for one another and to sacrifice our own interests for the interest of our fellow citizens. it is a great country, and i trust in god. and i know you do. and i believe that it is appropriator in the public -- appropriate in the public square for us to recognize that we do, indeed, have a creator and that we trust in our creator, particularly at this time of the year. thank you. [applause] yes, sir? >> i was wondering if you could touch on entitlements a little

bit. your first day in office will be busy, but maybe sometime later in the week you can talk about entitlements. >> [laughs] thank you. i help identify that bill on day one. -- i hope to file that bill on day one. it might be that paul ryan is able to get that under way in completed before then. probably not, but i sure hope so. but i do not think this president is likely to take any bold or courageous step as it relates to an issue as important as that. last night i mentioned a couple of things. one is you have all heard that we have a huge deficit every year. we spend more money than we take in. that is getting to be a big problem. and this president, by the end of his four years, will have put in place as much total deficit or a total debt as all the prior presidents combined, almost. it is extraordinary how much he has borrowed. so the national debt has come to a point of about $15 trillion, and that threatens

america, because as some point the people who loaned us that extra $1 trillion of a deficit each year, the people who loaned us the money will say i am not willing to loan it anymore, unless you pay me a lot of higher interest rates. then evens start happening, and it starts eating up our budget. interest rates from everything, from cars to being able to get financing because diesel products around the world and around the country. higher and higher price. if that happens, the economy slows down and a lot of people have got to work. this does that matters, and we have to stop that. -- this deficit matters and we have to stop that. there is something else that matters. that is the promises that we have made to one another that we have not put money aside to pay for. and the total of those entitlement promises comes to about $62 trillion. the big ones are medicaid, medicare, and social security. that money has been spent, the money you have put in over the years was grabbed by congress

and spend. -- grabbed by congress and spent. so how are we going to pay for that? for those who are retired or near retirement, we're fine. we can care for those. but for young people coming along in their 20's, '30's, '40's, and early '50s, we have to make sure we're telling people the truth. this week was a big week. because of republican congressmen and a democrat senator came together and said we have got an idea for making medicare work. now knows the kind of proud, because it was the same idea to -- i am kind of proud because it was the same idea put forward about a month ago. so i am pretty excited about it, and the fact that a democrat and republican came together and proposed it is good news. in means that there is a willingness on both sides of the aisle to deal with a tough problem. the idea was this -- with regards to medicare in the future -- i will call it medicare version 2.0 for young people coming along, for medicare in the future, you'll be able to get a premium support payment as a retiree,

and you can use that to the by traditional medicare or to buy a private plan. and they will compete. the private plans with the government medicare. and, by the way, people of higher income will get a smaller payment. they will get a smaller subsidy or premium support payments. people of lower income will get a higher payment. and if you do those things, we can make medicare sustainable forever and get rid of that huge overhang of over-promise. on the social security said, -- on the social security side, similarly, we can bring down the rate of growth in the social security payments for high-income recipients of the future. again, no change for people already retired or near retirement. but that means for someone in their 20's, they know that they're going to make a lot of money in their life, and their social security payment is going to be less than for some new lives through their life with more modest means. again, those kinds of changes

allow us to keep those programs solvent and protect them and provide them for the next generations. finally, medicaid. you wonder what medicaid is, those that are not into all this government stuff. i have to admit, i do not know the differences between these things before i got into government. then i got into it and understood that medicaid is the health care program for the poor, by and large. that is a program that runs very, very fast. the federal government picks up half the bill. the state picks up the other half. i would go to government and take its money and give it back to iowa and say, i like, you -- iowa, q -- iowa, craft your own program in the way you think best to take care of your own poor. we're not going to get the federal government tell you how to care for your own people. because, by the way, their differences between being poor in mississippi or michigan or massachusetts or montana or iowa or ohio, so let states craft their own programs and then run that program, that inflation plus 1% -- if we do

that, by the way, we said about $100 billion a year. by the fourth year i would be in office. so i get those programs to work by making relatively modest changes, and you might think, how are you going to get this through congress? good news if we have democrats and republicans seeing eye-to- eye on this right now. number two, we need to have a leader. i am going to close with this thought. one of the things you know here is that someone has to be a leader in this enterprise. maybe it is bob. i presume it it is. right here. is it john? it is john. [laughter] john is laughing and saying, it sure is, bob. [laughter] and you need to have someone, a leader -- by the way, being a leader means is not that you make all the decisions that you are always right. being a leader means that you can listen to other people, and you can hear ideas and then get

them done. that you know how to build a team of good people that can work together. that is what being a leader means. it is not being a boss, it is being a leader. i have had the unusual experience of watching a leader as a boy. my dad, i watched him run that car company. i watched him run for governor. i want to as governor. -- i watched him as governor. i used to watch him in his office interacting with members of his administration. i sort of learned by watching him. then i got a chance to run a business and to start a business. and then to go off and run the olympics. and i got a chance to be a governor of a state. and in that leadership experience, i learned in -- by the way, i learned from successes and failures. not everything i touched turned out well. those experiences, i think are needed in washington. it we need a leader there. we have got a lot of people on the republican stage, any one a better president than we have now.

but i also think is helpful to have a leader in washington who knows how to bring people together and who understands in his heart and in his core how to make the economy work for the american people. that is what i hope you understand i represent. by the way, i am concerned about the poor in this country. i want to make sure we have a safety net to care for the poor. if there holes in that safety net, i want to fix it. i am not terribly concerned about the rich in this country. the region doing just fine. -- the rich are doing just fine. as a word about the whole people i am worried about the whole people -- i am worried about the whole people in the middle, the middle class. that is the group want to see get to work again with good jobs. i want a good job for everybody who wants one, with higher income, with the confidence that the future will be bright. i want to be your president as a leader and to work with you to make sure that america remains the shining city on the hill. i love this country with all my

heart. i learned that from my mother and father. and what to make sure that america remains as it has always been, the hub of the earth. thank you so much. i want to make sure america remains as it always has been, the hope of the earth. thank you so much. john, bob, thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] ♪ >> born free i was born free i was born free born free free like a river raging strong in the wind and chasing dreams and facing father time deep like the grandest canyon

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>> hear what the candidates are saying from the campaign trail at the newly designed c-span website for campaign 2012. >> if you can't live with a nuclear iran and i can't, then you have to say what do and i think all options are on the table. if we took that oath of office seriously in washington, we would get rid of 80% of the government. >> who is the proven constitutional conservative in this race, and that would be he. >> read the latest comments. all at crmp span.org/campaign 2012. >> sunday on "newsmakers," john barrasso on how republicans view congress' record in 2011. that's at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00

p.m. here on c-span. our political coverage continues with republican presidential account michele bachmann at the town hall meeting at the dutch bakery in orange city, iowa. the iowaian republican caucuses are scheduled to take place on january 3,2012. this is about 30 minutes. [applause] >> how are you? good to see you. hello, you guys. [applause] how are you? hi, there.

-- hi there. hi, you guys.

>> hello, thank you for coming out. why don't we give congresswoman michele bachmann a huge sioux county, iowa welcome. [applause] can i hold that for you? >> thank you so much for your leadership here. thank you so much for all of you here in the bakery. anybody want to take a guess? m4p? michele for president. i am with you. thank you, everybody. this is wonderful. we're going to break at that and pass it around, and we will watch and god will apply it in front of our eyes. -- god will multiplying it in

front of our eyes. i am thrilled to be here. there is nothing like a dutch bakery. isn't that true? it is the best food in the world, so we're thrilled to be here. as was surprised that my husband is not over here at the counter right now, because he lives and dies by bakeries. so we are glad to be able to be here -- >> i will not go that far. [laughter] >> well, we're thrilled to be able to be here, and this is really your time. i want to open up by saying this i am michele bachmann, and i am running to be the next president of the united states of america. i think it is time to put an iowan in the white house. [applause] orangeave a lot more city and a lot less washington, d.c. why did you think? -- what do you think? i agree, too. i want to just bring up real briefly, in 1980, some of us were around then, but we have

got a lot of young people, want to remind you. in 1980, then candidate ronald reagan asked the question -- -- famously asked the question -- some of you may remember. he asked all of america, are you better off today than you were four years ago when jimmy carter took over as president? so i am going to ask you, are we better off today than we were when barack obama took over as president? >> [all] "no." >> those are with you, i agree. today barack obama took over as -- the day barack obama took over as president comedy know how much gasoline was a gallon? $1.79. give this one and a picture of the shetland pony. -- give this bormann a picture of a shetland pony. [laughter] that is right. $1.79. today, it is a little bit more than that, isn't it? if we would legalize american energy production, we will bring down gasoline to the price again. you see, that is the situation

that we're dealing with right now. so i ask that question during i think the republicans actually -- and is a more difficult place and even when ronald reagan asked that question in 1980. so the question is, who will stand in the same legacy of ronald reagan? who will be the person who will act like a margaret thatcher in that legacy of a ronald reagan? what we need to ask is, who is the person who has already stood toe-to-toe with barack obama and taken him on with obamacare in washington? who has already stood and to convert obama on with the jobs -- and taken to barack obama on with the jobs and housing contruction act, known as dodd- frank? who has looked him in the eyes on the issue of taxpayer-funded abortion, on the issue of illegal immigrants in this country, which we have got to build a fence on our southern border? -- on our southern border. who has taken the president on

on cap and trade, on issue- after-issue? what i want you to know if i am is fully prepared to stand on the stage and to all barack -- hold barack obama accountable for flapping our economy, decimating our national security, and i will emerge victorious. i will be that president of the united states. [applause] and i have absolutely no interest in running for vain glory or blind ambition. my interest is for all the young people in this room today. all these young people -- yes, that is you. i want to make sure that once again american exceptional isn't -- american exceptionalism the arrives and we do that by setting our country on in the firmest foundation that we have. it is called the united states constitution. and that is how i will lead as

the next president and united states, by following the constitution of the united states. and that is with your help. on january 3 here in iowa, and i am thrilled that we start this process in iowa, with the voice of iowans directly from the heartland. people say they're too conservative in iowa, there to prague-life. -- they are too pro-life. what people do not understand is this part of iowa, here in sioux county, in orange city, this is america. this is america. this is the most representative voice of the united states that we have, and i am thrilled that it is our voice together here in iowa that will determine who the next president of the united states will be. that is how powerful your voice is. now iowa made a decision four years ago, and they chose barack obama. well, now is our chance for redemption, don't you think, iowa? so we had the chance to choose, and i am asking for your vote

on january 3. so let's open it up if you have a few questions, and would be happy to answer them. >> i would like to know your thoughts are on the agenda 21? >> yes, for those who do not know, agenda 21 is essentially something that came out of the real conference. -- rio conference. it is about 20 years ago. anyone know al gore? ok, all right. al gore was there at the real conference, and is really about -- rio global control. it is essentially a one-world government view, where there's one political body and the united states would have to subsume our sovereignty into a global body. more than that, we would have to give away our wealth. the wealth of the u.s. would have to be redistributed to other countries. that is what the durban conference was about in south africa this weekend, also about redistribution of american money. i want you to know very clearly where i stand on this issue. i oppose agenda 21.

i oppose putting united states in an international political body where we you lose u.s. sovereignty. i do not agree with that. i do not agree with a lot of the goals of the u.n., and i do not agree with taking money away from you and redistributing it across the world. because i believe in america and american sovereignty. thank you for asking that question. [applause] >> i will work to get us out of these bad treaties we have been a part of. i oppose the u.n. right to the child and all of those. >> you did a great job on the debate last night. [applause] you got into an exchange about iran with ron paul and his policy that he would have. can you explain why iran such a threat to the united states security? >> thank you for asking that

question. this is a big issue that came up last night. president obama has fallen down on this issue. he has taken his eye off the most significant national security threat there is to the united states and that is in iran and obtaining a nuclear weapon. the reason why it is so important is because not only the religious leaders but also the president of iran has it repeatedly that if they get a -- has stated repeatedly that if they get a nuclear weapon, they will use that nuclear weapon exactly. -- views that nuclear weapon actively. they said it as recently as august and in september of this year. the president of iran came on u.s. soil and said he wants to eradicate israel off the face of the map. he wants to take a nuclear weapon and use it against israel, destroy them. he also wants to use that weapon against us and in the united states.

-- here in the united states. if there is anything history has taught us in the last 100 years, it is this -- when a mad man speaks and is taking steps to make it a reality, we are full if we do not listen to them. -- we are fools if we do not listen to them. that's why i said to ron paul that his words were some of the most dangerous i had ever heard. i stood on the intelligence committee. we deal with the nation's classified secret and national security. i cannot talk to about those things but i can tell you a report was issued in early november that said under no uncertain terms, we can be looking at iran having that weapon inside of a year. the reason why that could happen is because barack obama gave iran the luxury of time. he did absolutely nothing to stop them. that has gotten them that much

closer. our options are to your and our -- our options are fewer and our options are worse than the ones we had before. but i want you to know, as commander in chief, i think that is the number one duty of the president. i will stand up against in iran to make sure they never a nuclear weapon. -- they never obtained a nuclear weapon. i will stand with our ally, israel. [applause] let me get another question. i will be happy to take media questions. >> would you continue funding for cancer research at the current level? >> the question is will i continue funding for cancer research can do what is being -- and what is being done at the national cancer institute? >> this is a worthy cause to take a look at. i want to see more research,

not less. but we have to do it within the confines of our priorities. our big problem now is our national debt. the day i came into congress, four and a half years ago, we were $8.67 trillion in debt. that is a jaw dropping amount of debt. do you know how much we are in debt today? $15 trillion. it took us who hundred 19 years to get into that hold. -- 219 years to get into that hole. now, four and a half years later, we are at $50 trillion. -- $16 trillion. next year it will be at home over $17 trillion. the one thing we cannot do you and the young people right here is take away your future and your help. -- and your hope. i refused to do that. i am not going to be a

president who runs deficits. everything will be on the table. i cannot guarantee we will continue funding at the current level. i want to see stores. -- i want to see cures. the best way to see cures -- the venture capital for medicine has left the united states. we are not the place to do business any more to create new drugs and cures. that has to end. i want to slow the economy and -- grow the economy and abolished the tax code. through pro-growth policies in the tax code. i also want to get rid of obamacare. you want to talk about hurting health care, i am the chief opponent of obamacare and i wrote a bill to get rid of it. there is no equality on the candidates when it comes to getting rid of obamacare. there is not. we have candidates in this race

that had been for the individual health care mandate for 20 years. that is newt gingrich. right up until may of this year. he has taken $37 million on the health industry to promote that view. i did not share that view. mitt romney is the only governor in the history of the united states to put in place socialized medicine in his own state. i asked the question -- do we really think that people who have made this their signature issue are going to repeal obamacare? this is going to be tough to do it. i am not kidding you. it will be very tough to repeal obamacare but i am committed to it with everything in my being. i am committed to it. i will tell you why. for their first time in the history of united states, we have a taxpayer funded abortion in obamacare. we will never get rid of it. barack obama said in august that we are going to give the morning after abortion pill and

contraceptives for free. that was on august 1because he said so. that is the spending power in obamacare. that is wrong. i want to take that away. [applause] the president just announced last week his plan, he in his administration was to put in the grocery store aisle next to bubble gum a three day abortion pill for the morning after called the plan b. they knew that would hurt his reelection chances. no parent wants to see and a 11-year old girl be able to buy something like that. even the obama administration had to back off. what this tells youit president obama is reelected, you can take it to the bank. the next day, they will put in the same kind of radical social

policy. all of the radical policies will be put in place through obamacare. i am the only candidate in the race who knows exactly what to do to repeal obamacare and bring back high-quality health care for the greatest number of americans at the lowest possible price. that is what i'm going to do as president. >> what to believe about global warming? >> what i believe is that we should not have a political agenda. so much of the political agenda which i talked about and answered to your question on in twenty-one was this durban conference in south africa. it was about global warming. that was the basis of it. that is being used as a political pretext to have the united states tax us with a national energy tax, take that

money into the federal government and build upon and redistribute our wealth across the world. i disagree with that. i absolutely disagree with that agenda. i did you have to follow the signs. -- you have got to follow the science. what does science say? if you look at the issue of carbon the oxide -- where are the sources of carbon dioxide? is it a human activity? i think you have to look at the science and let it make the decision. that is not what is happening now. now it is politics driving this. >> what with the epa look like under your administration? -- what would the epa look like under your administration? >> there would not be one. the epa would be gone because there is already hit the of them in the united states. -- there are already 50 of them in the united states.

there is one here in iowa. it is best if you set your standards for your state. who wants dirty water and who wants dirty air? i think that is kind of the answer, is it not? i what is full of common sense people. i do not want dirty air or water. that is not what the epa is about. the epa is about killing jobs right now and they have been a disaster for farmers. i will set down the epa and the department of education. i have a few others in mind that will go. if that is not grandstanding, i mean it. you can take that to the bank. yes, ma'am? >> since government is not producing wealth and it used to be that 20 people would support one person in government, now it is almost one-one and they want it bigger. how do they expect to get the

money? i do not understand how they are expecting to get this money. >> you are right. pick government has grown exponentially. you talk about federal employees. the average federal employee makes $123,000 a year. that is in wage and benefit packages. that is more than double what people in the private sector make. if there is no relation. i am talking apples to apples. like a librarian in the federal government versus out locally. -- a librarian out locally. a cook in the federal government and a cook at in the private sector. it is almost double. that is why what i intend to do is shut down entire departments, repealed law and sent the authority, back to the states. -- and send it the authority back to the states. we cannot live the way we are living because i am not willing to let these people young people here pay a tax rate

effectively of a 75% of your income. that is what some of the experts say. if you take your state and local and federal taxes and with the current rates, as you can have a 75% tax rate. are you going to get out of bed and go to work to pay out 75% of what you make in taxes? then you have to pay your rent, your car, buy your food, do itunes downloads. it is not going to happen. am i right? it is not going to happen. i think too much of you. i have five biological kids. my husband and i raised 23 foster children. i am the old woman in the shoe print i raised 28 kids. i love this next generation. you deserve at least what our parents gave us. i was born here in waterloo. i am a seventh generation iowan. our family were early pioneers get out of the ground here.

-- that felled the trees and plowed the ground here. i will tell you, i am so grateful for these iowa values that i learned here. here is one of the best animating principles in the united states -- no one owes you a living. have you ever heard of that? that is what i've learned from my parents. you learn to make it on your own garrett the other thing is an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. they also said your word is your bond. those are good values. those are the same kind of the values we will rise again as a great nation. we will restore our greatness. we do not have to lose our opposition to china. if we start acting like a first world nation, rather than like a banana republic like the barack obama is doing right now. we will be that first world nation again and the shining city on the hill. that is what i came to return. -- that is what the founders

meant to us. that is what i aim to return. i need your vote on january 3. i will stand for life. i will stand for marriage. i will stand for religious liberty. i will stand for a strong united states defense. my father served in the military. i will stand strong for fiscal conservatism. i get it. i am a former federal tax lawyer. i get how taxes work. we started our own successful company in business. i believe in profits. i want more profits for more businesses to grow our economy. i also believe in the values that we are taxed enough already. the government should not spend more money than what it is taking in. we should act within the limits of the constitution. one thing that sets me apart -- i have already been proven. i have already been tested. for five years in the lion's den of washington, d.c. -- i stood up to the task.

i did not get caught because i -- i did not get bought because i was not for sale. as president, i will not be for sale either. there is only one voice -- the people's voice. your voice. that is the voice i am taking to the white house. they're very per se party will have is the iowa party. -- the very first party will -- we will have is the iowa party. can you guys supply all the pastries that day? we are going to have a good party. thank you. god bless you. [applause] i am really glad you came out. that is so nice. thank you support coming out.

-- thank you for coming out.

>> they have a disrespect for women in their own culture but when they are dealing with their nation --[inaudible] >> she was old. >> i am too, i am 55. [laughter] thank you for coming. what is your name? reagan? that's a great name.

can i hold you? you know how to smile really pretty. is this your sister? >> why don't we get a variety? but make sure i get this one. [laughter]

thank you. >> thank you. god bless you.

i will be glad to take pictures. i just need to >> hear what the candidates are saying from the campaign trail at the newly designed c-span website for campaign 2012. >> if you can't live with a nuclear iran and i can't, then you have to say what do and i think all options are on the table. >> if we took that oath of office seriously in washington, we would get rid of 80% of the government. >> your question was who is the proven constitutional conservative in this race, and that would be he. >> read the latest comments. from candidates and political reporters and link to c-span's media partners all at cspan.org/campaign2012. >> coming up, "washington journal". we'll take your questions and congressmens a l