>> i just want to say thank you, sir. >> we were talking last night and bobby, says -->> appreciate. >> i love your comments. my daughter lives in houston and we are pulling for you. >> she lives in houston? >> yes. going to see her in a couple of weeks. keep up the good work. thank you kindly for all you are doing. >> governor, when i walked in this door here this morning, i have been a newt gingrich supporter, but i'm walking out this door a perry supporter. >> god bless you, sir. >> i appreciate what you will do as our president. >> thank you, sir. >> i would like you to get rid of the caccoon around washington. >> they are either an insider

and that place isn't going to change. my purpose in life has never been to be the president of the united states or get rich but serve my country. >> we need you there. >> one last question for you, how did you bake out with your back surgery? i just went through it, too? >> i was off running for 10 weeks and how much we run in the last three days? 12 miles. haves done and i hope you good luck with yours. >> second time around. >> like getting married, you

only need to do it one time. >> good for you. >> i have a marine and air force. he is in wisconsin. your daughter? >> she was a nurse. >> i'm married to a nurse. >> god bless you. thanks for coming out today. >> say hello to george strait when you get back. >> i have a question. >> president obama is now trying to take the small business administration and commerce department and make one department. i was a veteran champion of the year for region two and they are all talk, no substance.

what are your plans? they do nothing. i was a small businessman. >> deal away with them. if you con sole dailt agencies and like the e.p.a., i would substantially reduce the size of it and be a repository of best practices and let it work out differences between states if there are issues like power lines or what have you. department of interior, department of agriculture, probably consolidate those two together. but department of education, do away with it. idea that the federal government has a thing to do with education, that's foreign to me. that's a state issue. >> he wants this to make another cabinet position. >> best thing we can do is eliminate -- >> thank you. >> ok, cowboy.

>> bless you. lotfully we'll surprise a of people on saturday. much obliged. >> come on. get in here. one, two, three. got it? >> i come from a long line of military. >> tell them thanks for their service. >> how are you? >> are you from spartanburg? [laughter]

>> yes, sir. >> much obliged, yes, sir. yes, sir. god bless you, thank you. >> yes, sir. let me sign it. there you go. thank you. >> yes, ma'am. there you go. there you go. now we're cooking.

>> yes, sir. thank you for being here. god bless you. everything's good. let me check in. >> study, ok? we've got a deal. >> leading up to saturday's south carolina primary, c- span's "road to the white house"

coverage take you live to the candidate events this week. >> we need to eliminate these means-tested entitlement programs. we need to cap them -- cut them and cap them and send them back to the states, remove the federal oversight and let the states have the flexibility to deliver these programs. >> we have brought to the forefront -- others have talked about it and they get in office and do nothing about it, but right now it is this liberty movement which is seen as a patriotic movement, an individual liberty movement that says to the country and to the word, we have had enough of sending our kids and our money around the world to be the policeman of the world. it is time to bring them home. >> and as candidates get their message out meeting voters -- >> [unintelligible] >> thank you, thank you. >> i was undecided until now. you have my vote. >> thank you so much.

>> we feel like the conservatives are coalescing around our campaign and that will be good for us not just in south carolina but as we go forward. >> find more video from the campaign trail at c-span.org/campaign2012. >>the gingrich told voters that he is best qualified to take on president obama in the fall. this is 50 minutes. >> you might take a seat, if you don't mind. i am the sheriff of lexington county. and on behalf of the next president of the united states, i want to take this opportunity to welcome you here. also, i want to let you know

that after last night, and the performance the speaker gave, he wanted me to decide, there is no doubt to can turn this country around and lead us back to the great nation we are! he talks about jobs and the only jobs! i think he can be the architect of the american dream once again in america. it is my privilege to introduce our party chairman. >> thank you for coming out. i appreciate it. i am the chairman of the party for another three weeks. i have been hesitant to get

involved in the campaign but this is a pivotal race. i felt like it was incumbent to pick somebody. do what i can to change this country by electing a good president. the reason i'm endorsing newt gingrich's because he gets things done. he has done what he set out to do. he did more than that. when he went in, and he wanted to be speaker of the house. there had not been a republican majority in 30 years. somehow he thought he would be speaker of the house. somehow he did it. then he did the budget, welfare reform, with clinton opposing him the whole way. i'm excited we have somebody who knows how to get things done. how about the debate? that was amazing. one quick story i want to tell you. i have been in a lot of debates in my life. this is the first time i have seen one where there was a standing ovation by everybody in

the house. it was amazing. that was newt gingrich. i decided to endorse him and i believe we have a congressman from arizona that is going to introduce the speaker. if you would, please welcome the congressman from arizona. [applause] >> i cannot tell you what a precious honor is to be here with all of you. i know each one understands that the eyes of history and the world, maybe even the founding fathers are on so carolina right now. i understand you know we are in a destiny-shaping year. perhaps the biggest in my lifetime. if president obama is reelected, unfortunately, we could lose our constitution because the supreme court positions he will put on that

score, the justices he will put on a court. if he is elected, we could see iran gain nuclear weapons. we could step into the shadow of nuclear terrorism. if he is reelected, i am afraid that the european socialism will gain an unbreakable hold on this nation and we will be forever diminished. everything we love is at stake. hownot trying to say important it is but it is the most important we have had in my lifetime. for those of you that saw the debate last night, you know newt gingrich has a unique capability unlike anyone else in this race. when the left posits questions that have intrinsic fallacies, and he is able, and he is gifted and able to turn that around and expose those fallacies and answer the question in the way that every day americans understand.

emerson said that what lies before us and behind us is small matters compared to what lies within us. and gingrich's able to -- there is something in newt gingrich that gives him the ability to articulate the causes of america better than anyone else. if south carolina does the right thing, you will nominate this man. he will go want to be president and there will be hope for my children and yours. would you welcome the next president of the united states, newt gingrich. [applause] ♪

>> i was just asking the sheriff how he gets reelected. that is a long, remarkable career. i am delighted to be here. i really appreciate my good friend trent franks who has been a tremendous leader in the pro-life movement. he has been helping us carry the message. rich, and thank you for having helped us. thank you for your support and friendship. it really means a lot. i want to start, the white house today, said that my comments last night about president obama being the the best food stamp president in american history, and he seemed

to disagree with. i know the white house is isolated from reality but i want to make a point. first of all, it is a statistical fact. president obama is the most effective personal putting people on food stamps. that is just a fact. second, i suggested that the president's policies might have something to do this. it was not as random bad luck. he said, we inherited the worst economy since the great depression. i think that is fair. ronald reagan inherited a terrible economy and turned it around within three hours. [laughter] reagan understood that you did not spend your first term blaming the past but creating the future. reagan ran for reelection with a slogan entitled leadership that is working. at the present moment, it would be hard for president obama to

suggest that this was working. i was told somebody they were shifting from yes, we can to why we could not as their slogan. let me be clear so the white house understands. when the president adopts a stimulus package as hundreds of billions of dollars that nobody has read and then that the shovel-ready jobs were not ready. and the stimulus fails but leaves this deeper in debt, at -- leaves us $800 billion deeper in debt, at some point he has to take responsibility. that was his plan and proposal and it failed. when the president adopts an anti-american energy policy, against developing energy -- they claimed they were lifting the moratorium in the gulf and replacing it with a permit system but were not issuing permits.

the american people are not that dumb. this is an anti-american energy presidency. he goes to brazil congratulating them on developing oil offshore and tells them we will give them money from a george soros- backed company. and then goes on to say he really wants america to become brazil's best customer. i thought he had it backwards. we do not send the president to be a purchasing agent for foreigners. he should be a salesman for american goods and services. [applause] the president's press secretary should come down to charleston and look at the boeing plant they tried to close. every time you turn around,

this administration pushes against american business and jobs, against energy, and then seem surprised they're putting people on food stamps. they think it is an accident of nature. baloney. the environmental protection agency kills jobs. they're looking at a proposal that would raise the cost of gasoline by 25 cents per gallon. 2011 was the most expensive gasoline in american history, on average. the idea your government would add 25 cents a gallon more tells you how out of touch with reality they are. i would prefer to replace the epa with a brand new solution agency that had to use common sense and be aware of the economy as part of this decision making process.

[applause] the reason i think this will be one of the three biggest issues of the campaign. you are going to have a paycheck president and a food stamp president. i worked with ronald reagan to develop supply side economics. we ended up passing it into law in 1981. at the time people called it voodoo economics. it only had one virtue -- it worked. >> i remember that. >> remember? the fact is, it is a simple model, cut taxes, develop energy, and encourage the people who make jobs. reagan cut taxes, obama raises them. riging cut regulations.

-- rates and cut -- reagan cut regulations, obama increases them. reagan is for american energy. obama is against american energy. reagan like people who created jobs. obama believes in class warfare. what was the historic result? 16 million new jobs in the reagan years. [applause] we then had two consecutive tax increases. one by a republican, the other by a democrat. i fought both of them. by 1994 the economy was flattening out. we won the election. we went back to the reagan playbook. we cut regulations and reform welfare. two out of three people went to work for went to school. the child poverty went down because parents were working, increasing their income. learning how to get a job. increasing their income.

we cut spending. we cut taxes for the first time in 16 years including the largest capital gains cut in history. the result was, we created 11 million new jobs. unemployment dropped to 4.2%. as a result of cutting spending and putting people work to increase taxes, we had more revenue without a tax increase because more people were at work. we balance to the federal budget for four consecutive years. paid out $405 billion. the only time you have seen that done in your lifetime. now, i am prepared to run a campaign between president obama as a food stamp president and newt gingrich as someone who has twice created jobs. -- participated in creating jobs. i think we will be competitive in every neighborhood. i do not care of the ethnic background, historic background, if you say to parents, would you rather be

dependent on the government or independent because they have a paycheck, parents are going to get a paycheck and have a better future. [applause] the second issue is going to be the question of values. i believe in the declaration of independence, the federalist papers and the lessons of american history. president obama believes in saul alinsky's radicalism, a lot of strange ideas he learned at columbia and harvard, in a european socialist secular model. we are about as far apart as you can get. i believe the founding fathers were correct when they wrote, we hold these truths to be self-evident. it's very important. they didn't say ideology, philosophy, ideas. they were trying to understand the truth by which humans govern themselves. and the truth about human

nature. they said all men are created equal, which at the time they wrote it was a very radical idea. it was a time of kings and emperors and czars. they said, no, no. we are all equal. and then they said, we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights. this is what american exceptionalism is all about. we are just people. we are exceptional because we have inherited from the founding fathers this extraordinary construct that says, power comes from god to each one of you personally. you are personally sovereign. [applause] if you are personally sovereign, what does that mean? they go on to say, the rights are unalienable.

that means no judge, no bureaucrat, no politician can come between you and god. now, we know you are sovereign because our constitution begins, we, the people. doesn't say we the politicians or we the lawyers or we the bureaucrats. it says we the people. it's a contract. it says we are coming together to write a contract, which is why the current court system is such a mess. if you are interested in topic, if you go to my first name, newt.org, there is a 54-page paper on rebalancing the judiciary and getting us back to a system where judges interpret the law they don't make the law. and it's a very important part of the reform we need to remind judges that they in fact are are not above the constitution. and that will they are co-equal with the other two branches. they are not above the other two branches. but this leads to a very simple core concept.

in america you are always a citizen, you are never a subject. in america you loan power to the government and the government is supposed to serve you. in europe, sovereignty is in the government. and you are a subject in europe. and in europe the government dominates and you are supposed to obey. and the president and his friends have it backwards. -- friends have it exactly they would like us to become europeans. we are not going to. we are going to be americans. [applause] there's one more part. the declaration is a remarkable document. there is one more part that says we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. life is very important and leads to the concept that we should define when life begins. i believe life begins at the very beginning and i believe

that that means that the baby is in fact a person. and therefore it is worthy of being defended. so life begins at conception. the president, we don't know when he thinks life begins. voted to allow doctors to kill babies if they survived the his -- although he sort of implied at one point he did not like himself because he did not agree with what he was doing. but that would be a good example of debate. because another part i think is much more fun, and that is the right to pursue happiness. now, there are two parts to this. first of all happiness in the 18th century meant wisdom and virtue not hedonism and acquisition. and so the founding fathers believed that a wise people could remain free but a foolish dictatorship. notice what they promise you. they don't promise you the right to happiness.

they promise you the right to pursue. so there's no provision in the declaration of independence for happiness stamps for the underhappy. there is no provision for a federal department of happiness to assess whether or not we have achieved, and if you had told the founding fathers a politician was going to come into this room and say i'm going to take from the overly happy and i'm going to redistribute to the underly happy, they would have said to you, by what right does some politician think they have either the wisdom or the power to make decisions like that? a hint of happiness, this is the conversation i had with juan williams last night, is about the concept that pursuit implies, in my judgment, work. and i think we have to reassert that work is good. that it's ok to work. night that we should reform

unemployment compensation so that if you do need it, and you do sign up for it, during the period when you are unemployed, that you should also sign up for a business-led training program so you are learning a new skill and developing a greater capacity to be employed because the idea of paying somebody 99 weeks to do nothing is profoundly wrong. do you realize in 99 weeks you can earn an associate's degree? we are subsidizing people to sit around for 99 weeks. 99 weeks which is keeping the worst possible habits. we are teaching them the worst possible habits. if you talk about how to get the economy moving, part two is how do you rebuild the capacity to develop being american? how do we teach being american? what does it mean to be american? how does a effect our relation with the united nations where i am totally opposed to the small

arms treaty which is an indirect liberal effort to take away the right to bear arms. [applause] timely, here's a question of real. we have two very different threats. we have the rise of china and frankly dealing with china the primary problems are all here at home. if we adopt the right litigation reforms and right regulatory reforms, right tax reforms, we reform our school system, if we he in invest in science and technology, the chinese won't catch us in 100 years. we have to rebuild our manufacturing base. we have to do the right things to rebuild our military. if we do what we need to do, we don't have to worry about china. and frankly if we fail to do what we need to do, it's pretty hard to ask them to be as dumb as we are. you can't go to them and say, look, we have decided to be

incompetent so would you be equally incompetent? fixing the harbor in charleston, i want to develop energy offshore to have resources in is big enough for the new ships that are going to come through the panama canal when they modernize it in 2014. i'm told that the corps of engineers bureaucracy takes eight years to do the study. not to do it, to do the study. now, my reaction to that as a historian is to remind people that we fought all of the second world war in 44 months. think about this. from pearl harbor on december his three years and eight months. how can it be that we could mobilize the defeat simultaneously in three years and eight months, and it

recently took 23 years to add a fifth swing to the klan airport. this is to self-imposed to pity. and -- stupidity. i am committed to starting at modern management and getting a government as agile, productive and clean as any major modern corporation. it is gone to save us a ton of money, get our economy going again, a major step towards balancing the budget. it's going to get our economy moving again. i look forward to debating the president on creating jobs. debating the president on values. and debating the president on national security. my last comment there is i have not seen any active weakness as great as his decision this week to cancel the exercise of israel. think about this --

[applause] the iranians spent the last two weeks aggressively practicing closing the straits of hormuz to threaten us, and our response is to cancel an exercise so we are not provocative. we are sending the worst possible significant signal to the dictatorship. the appeasement of this white house, timidity of this white house, the refusal to face reality of this white house is a genuine national security threat to the united states. that's something we need to debate out in the open and be directive of u how are we getting to get obama debate? is raising a billion dollars. he wants to run a totally negative campaign. he wants to hide behind commercials. i don't believe it's possible. if you'll help me on saturday and you help me -- i believe if i win south carolina i will be the nominee. if you'll help me on saturday and i become the nominee -- [applause]

as your nominee in tampa, i will challenge the president to seven three-hour debates in the lincoln-douglass tradition with a timekeeper but no moderator. let me be clear. i will accept that the president can use a teleprompter. [laughter] after all, if you had to defend obamacare, wouldn't you want a teleprompter? [laughter] and i believe i can tell the truth without notes better than he dissemble on a teleprompter. [applause] let me tell you how i'm going to get him to do it.

when lincoln announced in 1858 he had been out of office for 10 years, douglas was the best known senator in the country and presumed to be the next president. lincoln said we have 105 days in the campaign, let's debate every day. douglas said, i don't think so. lincoln recognizing the technology of his generation began to follow douglas. everywhere douglas went lincoln would speak 24 hours later. and after about three weeks douglas figured out all the press coverage was lincoln's repudiation of doug's speeches. he said i'll debate you. there are nine congressional districts. we have already been in two of them with you chasing me. i'll debate you in the other seven. they met and every single debate was picked up by virtually every newspaper. and the next year lincoln had them publish it as a book and they were a major step towards why he became the nominee. in tampa if the president has not yet accepted, i will announce that as of that night

the white house will become my scheduler. [laughter] wherever the president shows, i will show up four hours later and i will answer his speech. in the age of 24-hour television and talk radio and websites and blogs, i suspect in two or three weeks they'll decide it will be so much less painful to just have the debate rather than have me literally follow him from town to town. he will look so foolish that i suspect he will agree. on the other hand, if he doesn't agree, i'll follow him all the way up to election day and the country will understand he can't defend his policies and he will look like a man who having gone to columbia and harvard and been the best order of the democratic party was afraid to debate a teacher from west georgia college. that will reduce his prestige a great deal. thank you. [applause]

let's take a couple questions here. we have two microphones. raise your hand. we'll keep finding people back and forth. >> mr. speaker, you mentioned that the founding fathers have said we are all created equal as man. and you have support for israel. my question is on foreign policy. you mentioned that the palestinian people were invented people. what do you suggest should happen to them? should they become israeli citizens? what suggestion would you have for them? the other question is, i know south carolina is 60% and evangelical. christians with a strong support for israel. my question is, the governor is from indian heritage. her parents came from india. we have a catholic. and the mormon running for

president. would you support a muslim- american for president? or would you endorse at some point in the future a muslim- american could be running for president given we had a woman running and hillary clinton and we had a jewish-american. >> it would depend on whether they would commit to give up sharia. i am totally opposed to sharia law. [applause] in fact i favor federal law that pre-empts it and says sharia law will not be used in any court in the united states. this is an important question. we have a friend in arizona who serves in the navy who is muslim and a medical doctor but he is a modern person trying to find ways to bring islam into modernity. when you realize that the rising

islamization of turkey has resulted in women being killed. 1400% increase in women being killed. when you look at the application of sharia in iran. when you look at churches being burned in nigeria and the decline of christians in iraq from 1 million to 500,000. it depends on the person. if they are a modern person, and they're prepared to recognize all religions, that is one thing. on the other hand, if they are the saudis, if they demand we respected them while they refuse all-out a jew or christian to worship, that is something different. we need a president to tells the truth and rejects an effort to impose a sense of guilt because we are prepared to tell the truth. i'm opposed with the state department meeting with an organization of islamic countries who were seeking to censor any comment about islam. it is a fundamental violation of

our right as free speech. it truly modern person who happened to worship allah would not be a threat. any kind of effort to impose sharia would be a mortal threat. [applause] the palestinian question is a good one. i think if hamas would hunt down and stop the terrorists, i would favor peace with the palestinians. i would favor an independent state. i would favor an ability for them to become prosperous. in november, 11 missiles were fired. that is not a peace process. that is war. thes' position is extinction of israel. you do not have negotiations with that. let's sit down and negotiate while i figure out how to wipe

you out. i think we have tolerated for too long terrorist activities disguised as diplomatic behavior. i think the palestinian people should flow -- throw out the folks who want to destroy israel. we will accept israel's right to exist if israel will accept our right to be prosperous and on property. that means giving up the right of return. there is no natural right of return. greeks have no right to return to turkey. in eastern germany to poland. polish to russia. we have brought all sorts of changes. all sorts of territorial changes over the last 200 years. the only place is against the state of israel to destroy israel. we should say that that is over. there is no right of return. let's negotiate the future. [applause] >> mr. speaker, i am from falls church, virginia. those of us who are retired

enjoy a 4/10 of 1% on our savings. five years ago we were getting 5%. federal insured. given these circumstances, would you reappoint ben bernanke as chairman of the reserve? thank you. >> i have said that i would ask him to resign. if he did not resign, then i would ask the congress to fire him. the first week of the presidency. i think he is not a good chairman. i also have announced i would appoint a commission to look into gold and hard money. the dollar you save today ought to be worth a dollar 30 years from now. we have had a time of inflation that has eroded the value of our money. that is bad. the founding fathers created the constitution to get to sound money. which you have today is pumping

trillions of dollars of paper into the world economy. there is a report that the fed has been covertly trying to help prop up the euro. the united states has no reason to prop up the germans while they try to prop up the greeks. if the germans want to euro to succeed, let them pay for it. we have no reason to prop up germany. it is a leading exporting country in the world. it is a game they have been playing more they have propped up their export market. now they want to tie us into their problems. we should not do that. we should seal off our banks and protect our institutions and tell the europeans they have to solve their own problem. [applause] >> mr. speaker, i have a question -- everyone can agree our number one goal is to make sure we do not have four years

of obama. the way that this campaign has been going lately, how can you repair the candidate to be viable against obama? >> i would say the opposite. if we cannot nominate a candidate to go against obama, we have a problem. nothing that has been done so far, the negative ads against me, those various things that ron paul does randomly, none of those things are tough. not compared to what is coming. you have a chicago machine that is going to have a billion dollars. this is part of why they filed a lawsuit against south carolina over honest voting. you only had 600 dead people voting. that is below quota. if you are the chicago machine, you are worrying, what if they

only let living people vote? how would we ever win? you would expect a chicago machine, a ruthless campaign this fall. the answer is to nominate someone tough enough to stand toe to toe with obama. that is the reason -- if you look at the debates we have had and you ask yourself, it is october. who do you want on the podium debating obama? do you want somebody who is a moderate, who was close enough to obama? how are we going to distinguish romneycare from obamacare? that debate will be really clever. you want somebody like reagan was with carter. you want a real conservative against a real radical. most of his billion dollars will fall harmlessly. and you are still four paychecks and he is for food stamps. and people get it. you are still for national security and he is for weakness. you are for exceptionalism and he is for european socialism. that is why the only way to

defeat obama i believe is to nominate an articulate conservative who knows enough to go nose to nose with him. [applause] here you go. >> hey, newt. thanks for being here. that was a great speech. thanks a lot. i am having a hard time deciding who to vote for in the primary. >> i can help. [laughter] >> ok. >> i really want to vote for you. i am going to say this -- i want to clear this up. i have seen your ads. you talk about how many jobs you created as speaker back in 1994. we all know, and you have said,

that the government does not create jobs. the private sector does. it sticks in the a little bit. i'm not agitated about it. i wanted to clear it up. it sounds like something that democrats would say. it doesn't sound like something you would normally say. so help me with that. >> look, it is a question of creating conditions. the founding fathers created the conditions for the united states to become the wealthiest country in the world. other countries do not do that. in 1960, ghana and south korea had the same per capita income. today south korea is the 11th wealthiest in the world. the rules matter. detroit has been badly governed by politicians. it has collapsed. it went from no. 1 in per capita income and 1,800,000 people to

fewer than 800,000 people. it is about 68 in per-capita income. over half of its housing is empty. it is a human tragedy caused by bad government. when you have a bad government, obama-quality, when you have the dodd-frank bill destroying banks, a president blocking you from developing oil and gas, the only reason north dakota has 2.3% unemployment is because the oil they found was on private land. and the federal government could not stop them. otherwise they would not have developed either. they discovered they have 25 times as much oil as the u.s. geological survey thought they had. and you love the same thing -- the same thing will happen offshore. all of our information is 30 years old. we have no modern surveys. i am suggesting that somebody

who wants to create jobs can cut taxes in the right way. i have zero capital gains tax in my proposal. bring in huge amounts of money. so you can write off all new equipment in one year so have the most modern workers in the world. we have a 12.5% corporate tax rate. all of these things are really, really, very helpful. we abolished the death tax so family businesses do not have to worry about the federal government. they can focus on job creation and growing and being affected. not fear they have to go to the undertaker and the irs. in the same week. we have an option of flat tax. that means this is a hong kong model. steve forbes has written about it. it means that if you want to keep your tax code with the various breaks, fine. it is also paper work.

if you want to fill in one page, i earned this amount, i have this number of dependents, you can do your taxes on one page. you choose which is better for you. that gives us a sense of the right way to approach this. we can take one last question. >> i am john butcher. the mainstream media would lead us to believe that the american people wants the folks in washington to compromise and get something done. given the environment in washington, socialist vs. free enterprise, how you compromise with a socialist? >> i think they have the wrong formula. i made some controversy because i gave a speech to the heritage foundation and said i will cooperate but not compromise. when reagan was elected, a tip o'neill was speaker of the house. we had to get one-third of the democrats to vote for the reagan tax cuts or we could not pass

them. when i became speaker, we had bill clinton. i had to get his signature. we passed welfare reform twice and he vetoed it. you have to negotiate. the key is, what is it that matters and you do not yield an inch and what does not matter? is there something the other guy wants that would lead them to work with you? it requires a great deal of creativity but if you look at the track record in the 1980's with reagan and with clinton, you can get it to work. i am appalled at how bad obama is in getting washington to work. i am not exempting the republicans. this guy has no concept of how to negotiate and he has no concept of how to bring people together. you do it his way or he makes another speech. i will close with his example. the web-warner bill on

developing oil and gas, offshore, republicans in the house should pass it. if the republicans would pass it, it would go to the senate. how does harry reid stop a bill written by two of his members? now you would have a bill creating energy, revenue, the -- a bipartisan bill creating energy, creating jobs, creating revenue, and the senate would pass it at that point. it would go to the president as a bipartisan bill. in this economy, if you have a bill that increases energy, increases jobs, increases revenue to the government, even obama would have a hard time vetoing it. you have to be creative and persistent but you can get the system to work if you have a vision of where you are going. and you are willing to work cooperatively. i like to meet folks. i'm going to come down here. if people can come this way -- [applause]

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