that area of the world -- i can give the past two some regard to the bush -- i can give up pass in some regard to the bush administration because he was distracted by the middle east, but there is no excuse for obama. i said it the other night. look, i have been working i have been working the last five years of the problem of islam and the countries of south america. i want you to wonder stand that this is a passionate issue for me. the united states needs to have friends all throughout this

hemisphere. we need to be a free, growing, and prosperous hemisphere from cuba to venezuela to honduras to to columbia to brazil. they need to be our friends and open and in trading relations and a democracy and they need to be close allies to the united states. this is our backyard. these are people -- the people share the values of the people of this country and we have an obligation for our and security, our own economic benefit, much less the benefit of the people in this region, to have a policy that makes sure that all the countries i mentioned are free and safe and prosperous. [applause] i look forward to working with the people here because this is obviously the capital, in many respects, of central and south america from an economic point of view. i look forward to working with people here in south florida to

talk to you and work with you about how we can, in fact, create the opportunity for me as president both economically and politically, to spread american free enterprise, to spread american values, and be able to one day say that this entire hemisphere is free, is free, and people can live their dreams consistent with their values. thank you all very much and god bless you. [applause] >> center, can you stay up one second? thank you, senator, thank you for being here we appreciated and you have a home so we welcome you back. we want to take a picture with you. directors, past president, please come up. [no audio]

>> the cspan road to the white house coverage takes you live to the candidate events in florida and throughout the weekend leading up to the tuesday primary. >> by the end of my second term, [laughter] [applause] we will have the first permanent base on but moon it will be american and by the end of 2020, we will have the first continuous propulsion system in space capable of getting to mars in a remarkably short time because i am sick of being told we have to be timid and i'm sick of being told we have to be limited to technology that is 50 years old. >> and when the founders said that the creator had endowed us with certain unalienable rights, among them a life and liberty and pursuit of happiness, they

laid out a path for america that was not temporary but enduring, a path that says in america, we can pursue happiness as we choose. we do not need a government to tell us what kind of car to get rid if we do not need the government to tell us what kind of light bulb we can have, or tell us what kind of health care we will have. >> see what the candidates are posted on social media along with political reporters and viewers like you at c-span.org/ campaign 2012. >> the library to a white house coverage continues from florida today with a mitt romney campaign rally in panama city beginning at 1:45 p.m. eastern and we will take you live to republican presidential candidate if newt gingrich's speech at the palm beach county republican party lincoln day dinner in west palm beach at 8:00 p.m. eastern. that is all today here on c- span. >> republican presidential

candidate newt gingrich and mitt romney spoke at the hispanic leadership network, an advocacy action group focused on engaging the hispanic community and conservative policy issues. former florida governor jenna bush and carlos gutierrez our conference cochairs. the republican primaries next tuesday and will begin with newt gingrich, this is 25 minutes we had a slightly more modest group downstairs and i thought i would come up here and see if the rest of you would like to join us. you would like to join us. we had folks from louisiana, for may council. i am thrilled. we have developed here in miami nine years ago. we have had a c

thank you very, very much. we had a slightly more modest group downstairs who endorsed me. us. we have no boundaries. every ethnic group that comes to america has the right to pursue the american dream. it is very important -- i was thrilled when lionel and kathy came today. they get it. they understand. everybody in the latino community has aspirations that are precisely the heart of the american dream. they want to work and have independence. [applause] we're honored to be here and to be with you. i want to thank everybody who was put this together. it does matter a great deal. these are all first-rate people who've done the first rate job.

i can promise you that with the help of many of you i become the nominee, we will work closely in every single state and we recognize that working with the latino community is every single state because there are people everywhere who of the background who came from someplace either in spain or latin america. let me talk about some practical things. i would move mexico from the northern command to the southern command here in miami to create a capacity to deal with all of latin america. it makes no sense to divide mexico. [applause] i was treating the southern command and its personnel. we invest more in bahrain or

japan -- think about the scale of the media say. we are neglecting this hemisphere. almost 50 years later, we continue to neglect this hemisphere and it is dangers and foolish and we should have different policies. our commitment to every person in latin america -- we want you to have the opportunity to live under the rule of law and we want america to be your closest friend in your closest ally in giving you a chance for your family to pursue a better future. and that message and a human level will be received by people across all latin america and could help us break out. i was deeply influenced in the 1980's and how you break

through. i would like us to have that kind of program that gives hope to everybody. hugo chavez says he is our enemy. i am prepared to accept at. [laughter] [applause] there have been a few occasions in an administration filled with embarrassments that when president obama met with hugo chavez and he smiled and handed him an anti american book as an active delivered contempt. we do understand that what we get together and they say they want to ha the united states, they mean it. we should take an aggressive strategy of replacing hugo

chavez and giving the people of venice well the opportunity to live in freedom -- the people of venezuela. [applause] i come to you as someone who helped pass the helms-burton act. i was -- i will not waive article 3 as president, which every president has waived. i think the important for us to implement that -- i think it is important for us to implement that. but we need to do more than that. it is amazing that president obama can look east and worry about freedom in tunisia, libya, egypt, were a little bit about freedom and syria and more about iran and all because th

would be embarrassing. he cannot bring themselves to look south. i would like a cuban south to -- spring to help the people of cuba liberate themselves. [applause] if you look at the non-military strategies of president reagan and pope john paulo defeat the soviet empire, and we were serious about communicating to the next generation and the cuban hierarchy, there will not be a transitn to a diatorship but a transition to freedom. you get to decide which side you want to join. we will notice who does what and we will do accountle for every act ofepression. i think he would find the morale collapsing.

we have the scene where one reagan talks about the evil empire. then we have a prisoner who says -- to answer rating, they have to use the word "evil." the morale of very guard inside. -- in sibera dropped and the morale of every prisoner when to up because a western leader had the courage to tell the truth abt the soviet empire. the willingness to intimidate those who would be oppssors by saying to them, you'll be held accountable and those of you engaged in violence against the people of cuba will suffer the consequences of your behavior. in an age when people can take film -- [applause]

one of my goals is to flood the island with enough cell phones and video cameras in any act of repression gets filmed by 30 people. this person will be on the list after the revolution. watch the morale of the police force drop. the other part of land america -- of latin america -- we have to help the government of mexico win the war against the drug cartels. this is extraordinarily important. [applause] i helped pass the plan columbia as speaker. this was compounded by the drug cartels which was compounded by

the the power in rural colombia. we need to be prepared in a different situatn with different complexities to help the government of mexico in every way we can defeat the drug cartels because it is a threat for everybody in the hemisphere to have a failed state in mexico and to have the drug dealers surviving. [applause] there is a broader pattern. the broader pattern is the question of how do we maximize our trade and how we maximize our ability to compete? i am botred when i see the chinese gaining ground in latin america because their

government cares, their government is engaged and wants to maximize the opportunity to import and export from latin america. what changes in regulations and in tax laws -- what we need to do -- i will do everything i can to maximize our opportunities in latin america and to maximize the opportunity for miami to become the center of commerce, the center of education, the center of opportunity so that all of -- will overhaul the legal visa system. when we make it harder to get here, we should not be surprised when we have too few visitors. we have an obligation to reshape the ente visa program.

i say that on behalf of the cruise lines and on behalf of disney world and on behalf of universal. we're losing thousands of jobs because we have a visa program that is so complicated. one item that was not covered last night. i have had a firm position on the right of the puerto rican people to have a referendum. the people have to make that decision. i think they have every right to have the referendum to decide on stated or not. -- statehood or not.

that is something i would support, their right to of the referendum. and then to negotiate the right of a session -- if that is what they want to do. i do believe the people of puerto rico -- this was my position when i was a speaker. have the right to clarify their status. >> i have a question. the united states armed forces -- we have 4 million puerto ricans in the united states who are voters. the question is simple. you want our vote -- yes or no? i do not want you to make the decision. we will be going to referendum.

the believe that to be a state or not -- do you believe that to be a state? pplause] >> i believe the people of puerto rico should make the decision. [applause] it is not my place. the people should make the decision if they want to be a state. i will work with them. but the people have to decide thr future. i would welcome them ifhey make the decision. i will not tell them what decisi they should make. period. [applause] now, let me talk about one other controversial issue. is cannot last night -- this

came up last night. i don't believe you can pass a comprehensive immigration bill. any bill you write has too many enemies. you have to control the border. we propose to control the border writing a bill. there are 23,000 people in homeland security in the washington area and i would be willing to move up to half of them to texas and arizona and new mexico if that is what we have to doo have enough manpower. things could easier you have a different conversation when people te you seriously. i'm for english as the central language. english is the old language of

maximum opportunity. every parent knows this. this should not be controversial. i met with the president of miami-dade. they have 94 languages in their college alone. we want everybody to be able to talk with each other. that should not be controversial. we're inviting people to come to america to be americans. i think that people applying for citizenship should have a higher standard of knowledge of american history than we currently require. i think our own children should of a higher standard of american history that we currently require. [applause] this is a remarkably unique civilization which integrates

people from every part of the planet with a skill that no other country has. there's something unique and it is worth learning. i want to modernize the visa system. i like to modernize the deportation system. american not an system, which should be able to review -- we should be able to get riof you in two weeks. there are some people that we did not want here and the neighborhoods to not want them here. i think we have a guest worker program and it has to be economically driven. i would outsource it to american eress, visa, or

mastercard. if you had any effective guest worker program and an effective card system, there is no excuse for any employer to hire somebody illegally and i would be far higher economic sanctions on employers who do that. would not come to the question of 11 million who are here. i had a deep disagreement with governor romney. i opted to worth exploring -- i think it is worth exploring. a number of migrants would go back home and apply for cards. i try to deal with an honest way with the complexity of what is going on. you have people who've been here for 25 years. they have children,

grandchildren, and a local church. some of you may remember this from the debate in washington. i got attacked as though i had sold out on americans. they started yelling amnesty. for folks who have been there for a long time and a financially responsible, if they can have an american family sponsor them -- let local citizen panels. can prove that they have a family sponsor them and they should get a right of residence -- not citizenship. to get citizenship, they should go back home and a file like everybody else.

there would take a trip and file. in some countries, it is a matter of years. it is not enough when you get to people with strong family ties to say deportation and letting go. they are not going to self- deport. in other passion the most families have -- you know the passion that most families have. the idea that a grandmother will self-deport. this is a fantasy. this inot a solution. citizens should decide that you should have residency. come in under the law. it is a practical step. i hope you would support the idea that no one is in america

illegally. those here without citizenship are here with the proper papers. this is an improper way to reunify the country -- this is an appropriate way. [applause] two last things. about don't think a lot specific ethnic by ethnic, how we go round to capture people. i think about how we can create millions and millions of jobs so people will be better off and so everybody will be working. america works when americans are working. it is true or in some communities than others. there's a new study on the cost in the hispanic community of the president's decision to veto

the pipeline. it is a significant cost in higher prices of energy and in working in houston and working in the ports of houston and galveston. this is a bad decision to president has made. it has an impact specifically on hispanic people. we want every american to have a chance to get a firstob, a better job, and someday to on the job by owning the business. i think the hispanic chamber of commerce told us there were 3 million hispanic-owned small businesses in the united states. this will do very well if we haven't of entrepreneurial tax

code an entrepreneurial precatory system and a president who likes people who create jobs. i think we can start moving very fast. [applause] the last thing iant to say affects every hispanic american and every american. gasoline last year was the highest price in american history, twice the price when obama entered office. our dependence on foreign oil is an enormous threat to our national security. when you watch the iranians practice to close the straits of hormuz, they're saying -- it is in our interest to have an american energy program which

would create american jobs, and dramatically improve our balance of trade, give us the national security reserves of knowing we can do it. i have a simple goal to have no american president ever again bow to a saudi king because we do not need the oil. [applause] i will cse with a brief commercial. i'm running for president. i would like to extend -- to every person of every background. we have a primary here on tuesday. i would love to have your support. go on youtube, facebook, tweet -- even talk to people face to face.

i will try to lead all americans into a dramatically better future. thank you very much. [applause] >> republican presidential candidate mitt romney's spoke at the hispanic leadership conference in miami and a florida republican primary is next tuesday. this is 30 minutes. thank you. i brought some of my family today. as you know, i care about my family.

i have one son here today. this is my youngest son, my baby. i do not think he likes that. he lived for a couple of years in chile so i asked him if he would speak to you in spanish tommy how well he does -- tell me how well he does. [laughter] around on, he is barred by for the best. >> papa -- [applause] >> you're going to do better than that, right? >> [speaking spanish]

[speaking spanish] [laughter] [applause] >> i got that one. >> come here and say something in spanish, too. >> ola! [laughter] [applause] >> i have another friend want to say hello, my sweet are of 42 -- sweetheart fo 42 years, ann romney. >> it is good to see friends in the audience. i understood craig's last comment -- an excellent president reported [laughter] it is wonderful to have our son and grandson. when we ran four years ago, parker was a big hit on the campaign trail and he was only 1 years old. he loved this stage and the love the microphones and he loved the balloons.

he had no idea what was going on body loved the lights and the excitement. it is interesting to see him back here four years later. four years ago, i was definite about one thing that i would never do this again [laughter] i can't tell you how much i meant that. mitt laughed and said you say that after every pregnancy [laughter] all the women out there know what i'm talking about. a year ago, when we made the final decision about whether we were going to go forward, i obviously had a change of heart. no one will know who you will run against. i have no idea the other candidates will be. i don't with the issues will be by the time we come down to it. i only have one question to rescue -- if you can get through this whole process and you can finally be the president, can you answer me

this one question? can you fix it? he said yes. that's all i needed to know. [applause] i have to throw aside all those arguments i made about never running again and say it is worth it. this country is worth it. what needs to be done needs to be done by someone who knows how to do it. you cannot have someone turn something around if they have never turned around anything before. you cannot have someone run an organization if they have never run an organization before. we tried tha the last time. how's that working? [applause] i feel so strongly. i have seen him in every avenue be successful. to me, the most important success has been as a husband

and father. [applause] he did tell me when i was raising - craig was not always does well behavior -- of the five, he was the best-behaved. he was the baby and everyone thought it was fabulous. when they were relieved najee,-- really naughty, mitt would be traveling and he would hear an exasperated wife. he would say don't worry everything will be ok and we will get through this phase of life. remember, what you are doing, your job is more important than my job. what that meant to me was that we were equal partners, that our success was going to be measured by our children's success and our relationship, and now we have the reward of having that come true. the other great part is watching my grandchildren. we have 16 of them and watch

them misbehave. you guys so deserve it. mitt has exhibited an ability his whole life to figure out the core of the problem and then figure out how to fix it. it is not just having the answer. it is in implementing a which is the hard thing and i think that will be hard in the next phase, too. i have all the continents this guy will be a great president and the need everybody in this country to understand that as well as i do. i appreciate all of you being here. it will be an interesting day in florida on tuesday, we hope. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. i want to thank you in this organization for having helped sponsor the debate last night. i thought was a delightful

debate. i loved it. you are an energetic and enthusiastic part of that debate and i want to thank you [applause] i also want to thank the many people in this room who helped me four years ago and are still helping me. i see remedios over there. i better not call out all the names. i thank you so very much for your help in the many who are helping me in this campaign. means a great deal to me. i thought i would spend a moment talking about the president's failures as they relate to latin america and the nations of latin america and as they relate to our homeland with regards in particular to the immigration policies here and as they relate to the inability of our economy to help people find work, not only the people who have lived here all their lives that those who have come to this country and people who are suffering more than the population as a whole. this is more of a discussion than a lecture.

with regard to immigration -- i like immigration. i like legal immigration. i think is important for america to recognize that immigration is an extraordinary source of the vitality for our nation and bring people of different cultures you're great opportunity and growth for the entire economy. demographically, we need immigration. it is an advantage we have over the european nations. we have populations that want to come here and grow our economy. it is an extraordinarily important aspect of america's vitality. i also believe to protect legal immigration we need to stop illegal immigration i would in fact built a fence and i would in fact have in the border security agents to make sure that we're able to protect the border. and i will put in place a system that allows employers to know who is here legally and not so that people, if they want to hire someone, and identified immediately if their card is valid or counterfeit.

if a person does not have a card or it is counterfeit, if the employer hires them, i will crack down aggressively on those employers like we do on companies that don't pay their taxes. on that basis, we will stop the flow of illegal immigration into this country, i am convinced of that. i am very concerned about those who are already here illegally and how we deal with those 11 million or so that are here legally and my heart goes out to the record of people. my heart also goes out to the people who are being held by the so-called coyotes who are brought into this country and in many cases of abuse and victimized. my heart -- my thoughts and heart goes out to the millions of people in their home countries willing to come to this country legally who've been sponsored by people in this room. i care about all three groups. our primary responsibility as a government is to the last two groups.

those that are waiting legally to come here, i want them to get here. i would love to see a transparent process and have them go on the internet and see where they stand and how many months or years it will take for them to get here rather than going through this labyrinth of loopholes and laws and a maze of regulations to get to this country legally. i want to make that easier. i would also like to make sure that those being brought here illegally by the coyotes that are being abused, that that ends because there will not be the demand to come here illegally. with regards to those who are here illegally, those people who have come here illegally should be able to be given a temporary status, a temporary work permit but at the end of that time, they would apply for permanent residency after they return home. they need to get in line with everyone else that wants to come here. other people call that self- deportation but we will not go

out and round people up in buses and ship them home. we'll let people make your own decisions based on their employment opportunities here or lack there of if they don't have a valid work authorization cards from this country. i want to protect illegal immigration. i would like to expand legal immigration. i would like to have a visa program that meets the needs of our employment community. we should match visa's and the number of visas we give that in agriculture and hospitality and high-tech. we should measure those to conform with the needs of our employment community. policy expansile expansion of our visa program and clarification of our legal immigration program and a commitment and conviction across this country that we do not let the mainstream media confused. we're not anti-immigrant. we're not anti-immigration. where the pro-immigration, pro- citizenship nation and party and [applause]

let me mention a second topic and that is latin america policy. on a regular basis, every four years, a candidate's stand up and said that latin america is being ignored by their predecessors. and they will change that. and they don't. the question is, why? there is an answer to that. people who are leading a country, typically decide what is in their best interest. foreign-policy is typically guided by the best interest of the nation involved. the people who have been leading our country sometime have frankly thought is more in our best interest to be looking at china and to be trading with china and working with south korea and china and japan because of the high growth there. there have been others in the past to have said no, it is europe and we have devoted our time and attention to europe. taking a look of the world today, they are out of date.

what is happening in latin america whether it is from mexico, the caribbean, through central america and south america is such extraordinary growth economically not to mention demographically. there is a huge economic, political, and military opportunity and series of challenges and obligations right here in this hemisphere. while china is important and europe is important, right here is an enormously important aspect of american foreign policy. [applause] i think there has been the perception for way too long that economic ties with latin america are somehow charitable endeavors by american business. that is simply out of date. there are enormous opportunities for american enterprise to become involved in latin america and vice versa. palle as we know, trade between

two nations where they each trade the products and services at which they excel, raises the standard of living of both nations. it is one of the remarkable aspects of free trade we have that opportunity right here in this hemisphere it is astonishing that more businesses have not become aware of that but some are. i have a long an unfortunate history in the airline industry. i say on fortune because some years ago, a fellow named david nieleman asked if i would invest in his startup airline. i said i will never invest again. that was jet blue. [laughter] i make some mistakes now and then. i watched him. after being chief executive of jetblue and be successful, he went to brazil. he bought an airline they're called azul and brought american techniques to that airline and it is doing spectacularly well. you will find more and more people recognize the mass of opportunity for exchange and trade.

if i am president of united states, one thing i will do my first 100 days is to begin an economic initiative of drawing a latin american businesses and american businesses closer together. this is a mass of opportunity, not a charity, but an opportunity. it will help lift both parts of the world. [applause] besides that being in our mutual self-interest, there's something else which i think we have ignored too long. that is the geopolitical implications of what is happening in the world and how it relates to latin america. many of us in our country still have the holiday from history that has been spoken about by a number of folks that was that following the collapse of the soviet union, the idea that america was so far ahead of

everyone else that we did not need to worry about the rest of the world. we were the model for the 21st century. that is how we felt. actually, there are now four competing models for leadership in the 21st century. ours is one based on freedom and free enterprise. china has proposed a different model. their model also encompasses free enterprise, different than ours in some respects and they combine that not with freedom but with authoritarianism. that is a model they are selling around the world. it is doing pretty well. then you have russia resurgent given their energy resources and want to become a superpower again and you have the jihadists and their view is to cause the collapse of the others and be the last man standing grade these four forces are in competition today and they are not just playing in asia and europe or the middle east. they are playing here. our nation sit back looking into the left and to the right and not saying what is happening

right here in this hemisphere. we have to compete here. we have to recognize that what bolivarian movement under way and castro and countries like ecuador and guatemala, this is an extraordinary threat to this region. there's an opportunity for us to stand up and fight for what we believe and promote democracy. let me tell you how i will do that. we have ambassadors and all these different countries. cliff, is the former ambassador to brazil. they are doing the best they possibly can and reported to the state department with bureaucrats. it is not highly coordinated. the ambassador from brazil it would be helpful if we could help the brazilians in technoloy for one of their new hospitals and the ghost of health and --

goes to the health and human services department of united states and says i would like to bring some people down here and build a wing of this hospital, good luck. on many committees he has to go through and how many bureaucrats, we would never get it done. i want to appoint one person as a presidential envoy responsible for democracy and freedom in latin america [applause] this person would be given responsibility with budget and would be annually measured looking at each nation if we are making progress or are we falling behind? how we work with the various nations and have the capacity to draw on all the resources of america and stand behind those nations that are reaching toward freedom and to oppose those that are falling in line behind hugo chavez or castro. there is a battle going on very least to recognize that we're up against -- when we were up against the soviet union. we need to do that now and when he did do it in latin america.

i am president, i will get that done. [applause] there is a time coming soon or -- where cuba will be free. that will happen but we will have to get organized for it. we'll have to recognize that the people there want freedom as people do all over the world and america cannot setback. -- sit back. we walked across the world and iran had over 1 million people in their streets demonstrating for freedom. this president had nothing to say. can you imagine having ronald reagan having nothing to say? even bill clinton would have said something [laughter] i will not only say something when fidel castro finally leaves that are, i will do something. i will be behind the voice of freedom here and there. we will help cuba become free. [applause]

thank you. let me also noted in that regard that i'm looking for to appointing this person and finding a person who has extraordinary marketing skills. i come from the world of business. i spent 25 years in business. my first 10 years of my business career, i was hired by big companies to try to make them more successful. i was impressed by how well american companies can compete around the world and how effective we are at marketing our ideas. think about this -- we convince people around the world to buy a brown, caramel color water called coca-cola and pay half a

day's wage for and will buy it. we are able to convince people of things where sometimes you scratch your head straight it is a great product but we sell around the world. and yet democracy, we don't sell that so well. we send billions of dollars around the world, giving out money, and we are despised by some people. i don't understand why. in some respects, it is because we are not using the kind of marketing skills that we have in this country look at what fidel castro does with his miracle operation. that is the cataract operation. for a tiny amount of money, he can get the good will of people all over latin america. and us, for billions and billions of dollars, we get resentment. how can we be so short-sighted as to not bring into our government the scale of people in our business world, in our terrible world to say let's --

charitable world to say let's promote freedom and democracy and make a model for the entire world to see? [applause] part of that experience is to stand by your friends and to have been so successful that those around them look and say look what it is like if you follow the freedom agenda. if you have free enterprise and free trade and people have elections, look what happens in wonderful places like columbia. how can the world did this president stand around for three years and all of our best friend fighting hugo chavez? i don't understand. we should have done this on day want. -- day one. colombia what a friend. one more trade. let's make an example for let's make the people in venezuela look over the border and say they got a better deal that averted disaster happened in panama. i am looking forward to the time or the people of puerto rico make a decision about becoming a state. [applause]

wow, we've got some friends here. luis fortunio is there somewhereo,h, he is coming later. he is passionate about state and -- statehood. i think you'll have a referendum in november? i expect the people of puerto rico will decide lecky feels -- like he feels that they want to become a state. i will work with him to make sure that if that vote comes out in favor of statehood, we will go to the process in washington to provide status to puerto rico and create a model in the caribbean of the benefits of having freedom. [applause] let me also just note that i think there are threats we face around this hemisphere that

have to be addressed together. terrorism and drug trafficking and other forms of crime is one more of those areas of concern. one of the first -- one of the first things i will do is form a hemisphere taskforce, bringing nations together the willing to become together and deal with these issues. there a number of places where drugs are being brought and puerto rico is one that is being used given the fact that there is more difficulty getting to the mexico border. people have looked at puerto rico as a way to bring drugs into the united states and from there into florida. we have to be far more vigilant to look at the cross-border implications of crime. this does not affect latin america so much in terms of putting pressure on latin american leaders as it does to put pressure on us -- we have got to do much better job communicating to our children in this country whether they are hispanic or non-hispanics, that drugs are causing death around the world. [applause] our young people have a great

deal of concern they are a humanitarian people and are concerned about issues like global warming and things of that nature. they are concerned about humanity. how can they understand that if they take one of these drugs being smuggled into this country that they are partially responsible for deaths. i want them to understand the tens of thousands of people who are being killed by virtue of drug use in this country. it is time for the united states of america to take responsibility for the pain and suffering and torture and murder that is going on throughout latin america. we're not a good example in this regard and that -- i will campaign in a very aggressive way to our young people if i become president, stopped taking drugs because you are killing people. [applause] i am very concerned about the

fact that we have so many people out of work. i watch the president give a speech the other day and he talked about how swimmingly things are going [laughter] in the united] states. i am afraid he got it wrong. he is detached from the reality here. 9: 9% of floridians out of work and 7% of latinos out of work. this is unacceptable. it was one thing or it to happen for a short period of time but now it is gone for 35 straight month. this is a failed presidency. he did not cause the recession. he made it worse. this recovery is the slowest and most tepid we have seen since herbert hoover agree we need to have a president who does not to spend his entire life in academics and in washington but instead has been in the real economy working in a real double -- job. who understands how to compete in how to get america to create jobs again. [applause] the was a great line that was

spoken by mitch daniels the other night. he said america will have a choice. the choice is to follow the path barack obama is leading us down to become a european-style welfare state and if you believe in that, he said that as government trickle-down economy. i do not believe in trickle- down government. that does not work. the $787 billion stimulus bill did not trickle-down to the private sector creating jobs. that is the long way to go. the right way to go is to believe in the principles that made america the economic powerhouses. it is those are the principles outlined in our declaration of independence. those who wrote it said that we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. in america, we are able to pursue happiness as we to. we are not prevented from pursuing our dreams by virtue

of the place of our birth, by our circumstances of our birth, instead, we can pursue our greatest by virtue of hard work, education, a lot, dreaming. as you probably know, hispanic americans account for a disproportionate share of new enterprises in this country as do immigrants generally. this is a great source of vitality for america. if you are republicans in this room, and i think your -- you are-- [laughter] people say i'm not sure i could vote republican. you hear that in your community. you remind people that the reason we are so anxious to be in america and we are so in love with america is not because of the check we get from governments. it is because of the opportunity that exists in america. ours is the party of opportunit devoted to the declaration of independence and the pursuit of happiness. [applause] i will fight to get more opportunities for americans and that is the way we will create

jobs for latinos, hispanics, for our entire nation. thank you, guys, i love this country, i love your support, we will make a strong hemisphere, thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> you're very kind. >> we will see you tonight for sure. >> your calls and comments next on "washington journal." then the state of the indian nation and james clapper will discuss national intelligence. >> april 15, 2010, i arrived in

the hotel lobby in that general my crystal for the first time and he looked at me and said," so you are the rolling stone got rid of don't care about the article, i want to be on the cover. >> michael hastings wrote about the commander of u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan in rolling stone. >> i said i think it is between you and lady gaga. i was trying to make a joke. generally crystal said just put me and lady gaga in a heart- shaped tub. i said this is a different kind of general. >> general chris -- general mills crystal got fired as a result of the article. he will be on sunday night at 8:00 p.m.. 8:00 p.m..