of the folks who lost two years oecause america will change. america will not be the land that the -- i believe in free people and free enterprise and doing things -- america will not be the land that believes in free people and free enterprise and doing things for themselves. will be like our european friends and allies are. we will be happy with cradle to grave care, and that is what america will end up like. i say this is the most important election in the history of our country. [applause] i would say that without question, cap and trade will come back. but we will see amnesty -- assuming barack obama wins, and went back the majorities in the house and senate, we will see some sort iegal immigration bill that will grant amnesty to

people in this country. and we will see more people come into this country illegally because of the opportunities that will provide. this country will be very different. that is why i'm here. that is why i am running. having said that, incredibly optimistic he is not going to win. -- i am incredibly optimistic he is not going to win. [applause] and i think we have a great opportunity. i think we have a wonderful opportunity to remind america in this election as to what is at stake and who we are and why we need to believe in ourselves again, and believe in the things that made our country great and believe in solutions to the problems in this country, i believe in us instead of government. we will wait and see where america is. thank you very much. if god bless. -- god bless. [applause]

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> representative ron paul is campaigning in minnesota. non-binding caucuses are being held there today. the state's 40 republican delegates will be decided at district and state conventions in april and may. this is a little more than a half an hour.

>> it sounds to me like the cause of liberty is alive and well in minnesota. [cheers] you know, they have a lot of bright lights here. i cannot see you very well, but i do hear you. that is great. [cheers] and somewhere down front, one side or the other, my wife, carol is with me, my wife of 55 years. and we have one of our 18 grandchildren with us, linda, is with us tonight. i want to thank you, everybody, participated in the state elections. thank you very much for the support. and also, mariann certainly deserves our applause for her hard work. [applause] and walter and the tea party movement deserves applause as well. thank you [applause] but most of all, you all deserve the applause because you are interested in doing something important. and that is, change in this country come and go back to our roots, decide we want to live in a free country and not a company rapidly drifting toward totalitarianism.

we need to reverse that. [applause] you know, supporters as well as myself have been criticized. ever notice on tbi to criticize? [boos] but the one i get the biggest chuckle out of is that we are dangerous. of course we are dangerous. they have been making a slip of the status quo and they have been ripping us off. [applause] we are dangerous to those who abuse the monetary system first, the people in the federal reserve, the people in the military-industrial complex. they do not want it disrupted when they have a crisis. they come begging and pleading. when it is a good time, they

read all of the profit. that is going to change. [applause] if we had to summarize it into one word as to what we must do and what is the important issue, to me, the important issue is liberty. [applause] if we look at all our political action, it should be to protect liberty. we did a pretty good job on this for a while. i would say the last 100 years, things have been slipping. i like to go after the president, but i do not as much as some others because i see this as a problem lasted for some time. if you are looking for something to criticize, it would not be hard to criticize the president. he wants to give you obamacare, which we do not need and it will be expensive. [boos] but also, whether it is the promises made in 2000 or the

promises made by the current president, unfortunately, we continue to do the same thing regardless of the election. they keep the same foreign policy, the same monetary policy, the same entitlement system, the same deficits. we need to clean house and say we want renewal of the spirit of what made this country great, and that means emphasizing your personal liberties. [applause] to defend liberty, we have to know where it comes from. it does not come from our government. sometimes they think they are passing it out, and they are always restricting. if it is their liberty rather than our liberty. but liberty comes to us from our creator, or a very natural way. we should all of our liberty

and own our lives. and we should not only have life and liberty, but we ought to be able to keep the fruits of our labor. [applause] one reason why the income-tax is so detrimental, it is based on the assumption that the government owns everything and they allow us to keep a certain percentage under their conditions. it is a sellout in the sense of liberty. that has been around since 1913. and when true liberty comes to this country once again, government will be what -- will be much smaller. we will not be the policeman of the world. we will not have runaway entitlements. [applause] and to not only will we not have income tax, but we will not have a federal reserve. [applause]

[cheers and applause] who would have ever dreamed 10 years ago that we would have the attention of the federal reserve like we have today? [cheers] but it is important one to come to understand what the monetary system is all about and why inflation is bad, and why it a few people in secret can create money out of thin air. you come to realize how important it is in relationship to the welfare state. none of this would happen if you did not have the federal reserve to my ties and by the debt. how would this happen if members of congress wanted to spend all of this money, and

they should not pay for it through taxation if they are going to do it. but that is difficult. people get tired of the taxes. they resort to borrowing money to much. but then that pushed interest rates up. and they've invented the federal reserve because you can hide the inflation, you can transfer the penalty from one group to another. but ultimately, this catches up with us. in the meantime, what it does is if we do not have to pay the bills up front, it allows governments to grow. this is what happens in collaboration with the federal reserve and the politicians who got reelected by doing exactly what the people were asking for. they did that for a while until we finally consumed all of the wealth of the country. real productivity has gone overseas.

the only thing left is arwin. -- borrowingbut that pushes interest rates up. but that pushes interest rates up. then they go to the federal reserve and a print the money. as long as that happens, government will grow. it will land, because many a country has tried this in the past. it ends up badly. it ends up with the destruction of the currency. [applause] the one characteristic of the destruction of a currency, the depreciation of the currency is the middle class shrinks and the wealthy class gets wealthier. just look at it not in the last few years alone, but over the decades. that has generally been the case. a lot of wealth has left the middle class. we have a freer market and sound government, the middle class in this country was the largest and wealthiest in the world. [applause]

i think we lost the moral high ground many years ago, probably a little bit before the depression and in the progressive era. we lost the moral high ground because there were those that said that government would always take care of those who are having problems. and if you are a humanitarian, you want to give free stuff out, free food, free medical care, free education, free housing, and everything will be ok. the trouble is, you can do that for a little while, but then again and people are unhappy. and guess what, the very people who are supposed to be helped with these humanitarian to our intent to transfer the wealth of iran the world and think it comes from printing press money -- wealth of around the world and think it comes from printing press money, they're hurting those they intend to help. in the last four years, the

evidence is on the table. it does not work. it leads to endless wars. the economic system is deeply into debt now. that is why we have to restore the basic values of just common sense, sound money, private property, and also, we have to address this foreign policy that has given us and less wars against enemies that we do not know who they are. we do not know why we go to war and we need to bring our troops home. [cheers and applause] the message of liberty has been around a long time. we talked a little bit about it

for years ago, and a lot of people joined the effort. in the last four years, a lot more. even today, this message of liberty is spreading. we get criticized also of the foreign policy of minding our own business -- for the foreign policy of money our own business. those who are serving and have served in the military understand this the most. guess who they support for president of the united states? [cheers and applause] most people know that i have served in the military. i was in the military for five years. [applause] there is no other candidate who has been in the military. some people say, they just support you because you were in the military. that is partial, but not the whole thing. that is partial, but not a whole

thing. i would never send troops into a war that is not declared where i do not know exactly who the enemy is. fight it, to win it, and come home. [cheers and applause] as well as going into the military, we take an oath of office to defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic. i can reassure you that the foreign enemies are not a threat to us. there is no one on the verge of invading us. we have more weaponry and we spend more on our military than anyone else put together. this whole idea that we are on the verge of being attacked, this was true in the 1960's when the soviets were in power. of course, they bankrupted themselves and their power ended.

we have to realize we do not have to have this fear. we do not have to keep spending more and more. in fact, the more we spend, the more we send our troops overseas, the more bases we have, the more drones we used to kill people, the less safe we are. we are not safer by running out foreign policy. [applause] not only do i believe it is a detriment to our national security, i believe it is a major part of the devastating budget deficit we have. we spend $4 trillion that was put into our our debt in the last 10 years with our overseas commitments. this bringing troops home, you do not have to pull them out of the military. immediately bringing troops, of the, suddenly that means they would be spending their money in this country, not in germany

or japan or south korea. [applause] under conditions of war, whether war overseas or a war against the american people in a war that they call the war on drugs -- [boos] -- i think we should stop all those wars. [applause] is actually a war on our civil liberties. we have seen this systematically, especially since 9/11. 9/11 was a serious, serious matter. i voted to do whatever we can to go after those individuals responsible. i was discouraged rather rapidly after 9/11 because they used it as an excuse to do something they had been planning on doing for six years.

in my first speech against the iraq war, it was 1998, because it was clearly evident to me that they were going to do that. [cheers and applause] but after 9/11 occurred, it seemed to take 10 years to get one guy. with all of the weapons and technology that we have, it takes 10 years to find him. what did we do? we went to iraq and we did nation-building and we invaded these various countries. we have lost close to 9000 americans and 44,000 severe injuries. we have hundreds of thousands of veterans today begging and pleading for help. we have an epidemic of suicide a of people coming from iraq and iran back home. obviously, it would be much better if we have not gotten involved. their real enemy right now in my estimation -- because i do

believe we have a powerful, efficient military. we have to defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic. [applause] once again, shortly after 9/11, within a week or two, there was a bill that was brought to the floor that had been floating around congress for a couple of years and it never had support and they could not get it passed. after 9/11, they said come on now is the time we will print -- we will pass this wonderful bill that will protect the people, the patriot act. [boos] the patriot act is very, very unpatriotic, if you want to know. [applause]

that bill was passed rather rapidly. as one member of congress told me, i had to vote for it. i did not have time to read it, but it was called the patriot act. how could i go home and explain it if i voted for it? i tried to explain to him that it was his job. you have to go home and explain why you voted the right way. [applause] but in the bill, you may have noticed this already, but in washington they name a bill and it always sounds pretty good. just as soon -- maybe not 100%, but just assume that the bill may be opposite of what they are trying to do. [applause] if they have called that the "repeal the fourth amendment act" maybe it would not have passed so readily. [applause]

but the undermining of our fourth amendment rights, especially at airports, is olli consequence of the page rybak. as far as i'm concerned, private property should be protected. and not by the tsa. [applause] if we allow it to stand and look at the pictures we have seen on television and in the newspaper at the poking and prodding of little children to elderly women in wheelchairs and making us think that we are safer because of this, it is impossible. i think it is there to intimidate us and make us compliant and listen to the government. this is what happens when you move from freedom to a tyrannical state. then why you to obey the government instead of your own heart and your own mind and your

own property. [boos] the patriot act was certainly a big deal for us, but it is still ongoing. maybe you heard that the defense authorization act was passed. [boos] and i'm very impressed that you know what i'm talking about [applause] because i'm convinced that you did not hear it on the evening news. you must be getting your news someplace else. it passed in the senate and house of. the president gave it a happy new year by signing it on new year's day. but the wicked part of this, it changed our history in many ways because civil laws should always be enforced by civil police and local police. but now, it is institutionalized, codified that the military now can arrest

any american citizen, put under arrest with no lawyer, no charges, no trial, and can be put in prison indefinitely. [boos] this needs to be changed. we will not be living in a free society and a free republic. and it will be used. they do not write the laws in order to not use them. a one year ago, the president announced -- someone came to the senate and he announced that it is now the policy of the united states that we can assassinate united states americans. where does he think he gets his power? we cannot let this stand. but to prove his point from his side, he has already used it three times. he picked a guy that he decided was a bad guy. he may well be a bad guy. he does not live here.

he was not american citizen. he lives in yemen. he was not arrested and charged, but he was assassinated because he was associated with bad people. but he was never even convicted of a crime. they kill him and nobody is going to worry too much. but the next week, they decided he had a relative that was an ally of is. they said, we need to kill him, too. they went over and dropped another drone missile on him and they killed his son. it turns out his son was 16. he was barbecuing out in the backyard. this is not what america is supposed to be about. it is supposed to be about the rule of law, and we should all be protected. [cheers and applause]

our economy is not going to be revived until we come to our senses. we got into a mess because we spent too much, too much debt, borrowed too much, printed too much, regulated too much, and then we depend on the federal reserve. but when the crisis hit, it became obvious. and it was predicted by many that it would come. and a bubble finally burst, and guess what the solution has been. spend more, tax more, and continue to do the same thing. then they wonder why they are not getting results. we have to decide whether we want to have a free-market economy with sound money, a gold backing, restraint on the federal reserve, and restraint on a congress that is spending money. [applause] i want to cut the budget by $1 trillion. [cheers]

the first year. now people get nervous saying, the government doesn't spend $1 trillion, one that weaken the economy? no, it will help the economy because to spend it they have to inflate. i met some bureaucrats and they do not have any idea how best to spend your money. only you have the idea how best to spend your money. [applause] we have to ask a couple of basic questions. the first basic question is what should the role of government be? should government be there as an entitlement system? should we believe this story at entitlements are our rights? do people have a right to medical care? do they have the right to food or to a house? no, they do not.

they have a right to their life. have a right to their liberty. they have a right to keep their property. then they would be able to afford it. when government does it, they cannot get anything. [applause] the entitlement system has to be challenged. the foreign policy has to be challenged. the monetary policy has to be challenged. and quite frankly, the others are not doing that. it is all status quo. both parties, yes, they sound different, but the goal has always been more power. the arguments are real between conservatives and liberals and republicans and democrats, but it is all over power. it is not over whether -- not over what kind of government we want. the founders knew this and they wrote a constitution. they wanted the government to be very restrained. i believe most of the reason we are in this mess is because we have failed to follow the

constitution. and i believe the only way we can get of this mess is that we put those in washington who take their oath of office seriously and obey the constitution. [cheers and applause] samuel adams was very clear, and other founders were worried about if we did not keep our republic. they worry that we would go into a dictatorship of the pure majority, which is called democracy. that means the 51%, if they go along with it, can take away the rights of the minority. if you look at the patriot act, that is what is happening. if the majority endorses it, the minority is undermined. when you get worried about not having enough -- today, we do

not have 51% of the people right now that endorse everything we say. but the truth is, you do not have to. but you have to have leadership. you have to let people in the right places. 51% of the people in this state will not be voting tomorrow. you will be voting, and you have more clout than those who do not vote. [applause] and adams advised in never requires a majority, but a minority, that they would be fed up with it and it would be irate and determined and believe in something, and our goal should be to continue the powers of life and liberty in the hearts of men. and i think that is what has happened in this country. these last four years have been so different than when i started in the 1970's. suddenly, the young people are

waking up to those who dreamed all of this and are coming alive again. [applause] and it has been said that you should never doubt the small group of people who has firm convictions, that they can change the world. never doubt it, because it is the only way it ever happened before. both in the-and in the positive, i am sure. when the communists took over, they did not have a majority vote. no, it was a month -- a determined group. a minority has to have the right viewpoint. my argument is, if you care about people, care about yourself, care about your family, you have to opt for liberty. it is liberty that offers us not only this wonderful opportunity, but also it offers

us wealth. i have always been convinced -- i love my freedom. i would be giving -- willing to give up wealth if i could have my freedom. [cheers and applause] but the wonderful thing about it is that we do not have to make a choice. history shows that the freer a society, the wealthier the society. we do not have to argue that case. the bigger the government, even when it is designed to help the poor, actually, the biggest beneficiaries are the rich. they get the money and the bailout and the benefits of the inflationary system. we should not lose this

argument. and for a while, we were consuming wealth and it was more difficult because everybody was simply getting stuff. but most people now know that there's something seriously wrong with social security. all of these programs are bankrupt, and we do not cut anything. we still have another war and we are upset that the world has not joined us in going to war in syria. soon it will be iran that we have to go into full war. [boos] but now, i think the people are realizing this is not going to last, even those in leadership that are saying we have to continue this. nobody is arguing that case. but the other thing that happens, both negatively and positively, the currency goes down rapidly and you can have chaos anna that is -- chaos politically and economically. the other thing is the ballooning out and joining of a

movement sometimes moves rather rapidly. i think we are on the verge of that. we have already seen the opening. and it is not just a few people in think tanks. this is all around. it is getting into our university and into the media. and thank goodness for that. [applause] talking about the internet, it is a good example of the success that so many of you participated in. the stock online privacy act might stop because of you -- the stop online piracy pact might stop because of you. [applause] when you speak out, politicians listen. they do not have much conviction. you are in charge. that is what this campaign is all about. you have to get out your message.

[applause] but there is every reason to look at this optimistically because more people are discovering what happened and young people are coming alive and those who have been waiting for this are willing to join. i had an interview the other day, and i was complemented -- which is rather rare. he said, young people come out to your functions and they seem really excited. but he said, in the last six months, it is more than just the young people coming out. and i said, yes, that is because we are all thinking very young these days. [applause] liberty is a -- if this liberty was a young idea, it is only tested for a short time frame. tierney is the old idea. we do not need any more tyranny. it started with the magna carta. we do not want our government even undermining the principles

of the magna carta. we're not going to let them do that. we're going to continue this movement to which the country up, change our government, and continue to win the elections. thank you very much. [cheers and applause) [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [applause] [applause] [cheers and applause] >> republican presidential

candidate mitt romney held a campaign rally in centennial, colorado and monday. state republicans are holding non-binding caucuses today with their 36 delegates determined the district of state conventions in april. this is a little more than 20 minutes. ♪ ["born free"] >> that is quite a welcome. you do not get a better welcome than a colorado welcome. i will tell you that. [cheers and applause] thank you so much. you on army and your honor our cause, our mission, our effort. i know there are a lot of people in this country who feel that our best days are past us. if they are not. at the future is bright. america is back. [applause]

we have in the heart of the american people all we need to make sure that america get back on the right track. we get back the white house, get back the senate, if we get a amera contract to create jobs and continue to be -- we get america on track to create jobs and continued to be the shining city on a hill. [applause] it was three years ago almost to the data and that president obama was on the "today" show and he said, if he could not turn the economy around in three years, we are looking at a one-term proposition. we are here to collect. [cheers] in this country, we have almost 24 million people that are out of work or have stopped looking for work and are just in part-

time jobs and need full-time work. do you know what has happened to median incomes of america? over the last four years, they have dropped 10%, the median income, even as the cost of gasoline and food are up. i have had the opportunity to go into various homes and i was surprised. i was getting my hair cut by a guy in his 70's who thought he was going to retire a lot earlier, but could not afford it. i have met retired couples who thought this would be the best time of their life and it tied to take -- and have had to take part-time jobs. in some respects, the president has done everything wrong. just last week he tried to take a bow for the fact that unemployment is down to 8.3%. [boos] remember, he said if we let him

borrow $7 billion he would have it below 8%. -- $787 billion. three years later, it is still above 8%. that is failure. [cheers] and there is another reason he does not deserve to take a bow. everything he has done has made it harder to put americans back to work. do you think obamacare has made it easier for americans to get back to work? do you think daud-frank has made it easier for banks to make loans to new businesses? do you think the national relations board telling boeing they cannot build a factory in south carolina because it is a right to work state, the you think that put americans back to work?

do you think trillion dollar deficit every year -- by the way, the president is on track to put in place almost as much public debt as of the other presidents combined, you think that helps businesses in america? there you have it. his policies did not help put america back to work. it slow down the economy. he was elected at a critical time when the nation faced a real challenges. this president was elected to lead. he decided to follow. now it is his time to get out of the way. [cheers] this campaign is more than just about replacing president obama, as important as that is. in my view, this election is

going to be a time to decide what america is going to be. what kind of country we are going to have. because there are people in this country who believe that fundamentally, the government ought to be an actor and it should tell us how we live our lives. and their government is far more intrusive than anything we've had before. i do not want to become a social welfare state. look at the differences between the past that america could follow. president obama, if he is president for four more years, it is trillion dollar deficits every year. it will inevitably hit a wall, like greece or italy did, and there is no one big enough to pull us out. that is the course we are on. if i am president instead, if i cannot slow down the rate of government spending, i will cut it. [cheers]

right now, government consumes -- federal government consumes about 25% of our total economy. i will get that down to 20% within four years. and one more thing, i will finally get on track to have a balanced budget. [cheers] there are some other differences. president obama seems to have adopted something you see in some countries, just not ours. we call it crony capitalism you use the money of the taxpayers to take care of your friends, our you have bureaucrats decide how the economy ought to work. for instance, when general motors got in trouble, and instead of going through the bankruptcy process where it could come out on its own or perhaps get help from others from time to time, instead, he handed over to uaw, the people

who helped in his campaign. and you have the national labor relations board were the right to work states are going to be penalized. and then you have the strangest thing, where the president and his friends are actinolite venture capitalists. they looked at something like solyndra and decided to give a $500 million. [boos] that is not just a bad idea because we lost $500 million. it is also a bad idea because when the president chooses a winner, when he says his view for the best solar energy company is solyndra, think about all of the other companies that cannot get capital for their idea. and the government has chosen a winner. he did the same thing with a battery company that has now gone bankrupt. there are a couple of electric car companies.

and what are all of these things -- what do all of these things have in common? they are all contributors to his campaign. i want to return america to the genius and innovative spirit of american enterprise. [cheers] this president says a lot of the right things from time to time, but then does not do them. the other day in his state of the union address, he said he was a "for all of the above sources of energy." nuclear, coal, oil, gas, as well as the renewables. but what we have seen over the last three years, a president who does not like kohl, who does not like drilling for oil -- he has used the epa to keep us from both.

as a result, america can anticipate spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year buying energy from other people when we can maintain it here ourselves, or from canada with the keystone pipeline. [cheers] the right course is to build that pipeline, develop our own resources and finally get america to be energy secure. [cheers] on one of the most critical issues that we all care about, our health care, this president has the view that government bureaucrats can take care of your health care better than you and your doctor can.

on day one, i will return health care to you and repeal obama care. [applause] the president came to office and said he would sit down and meet with mahmoud ahmadinejad, hugo chavez, castro, kim jong il, the world's worst actors. how does that work out? they did not want to meet with them are the right course is not for us to cozy up to our enemies but instead to stand with our friends. i will stand with our friends whether it is israel or other friends. we will not allow a dime's worth of distance between us. [applause] standards,ident's on he has failed. he was on the "today show"again and . did anybody see it?

he was on the show this morning and he said he deserves a second term. can you believe that? [boos] i look at the record. i look at what has happened he said that in his first year he would pass and propose a comprehensive immigration reform plan. he did not. he said he would put employment below 8%. he hasn't. he said he would get closer to iran and dissuade them from becoming a nuclear nation buried he did not do that either grade he said he would work with republicans to craft a bipartisan health care solution. did not do that either. this president says that success is determined in part by people being able to save money and have enough money to pay for their mortgage and this is a president who presided over an economy where people have lost 10%. this president has failed and that is why he has to go and we need a new president.

[cheers and applause] you guys are lucky to live in such a beautiful place. [applause] this is a majestic place. i understand that a person from massachusetts, a woman from massachusetts, came out here and climbed pikes peak. after she was on the peak, she wrote a song. the name of the song is "america the beautiful." [applause] she was here. this is what inspired her bread remember 'oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of gramm's, four purple mountains' majesty -- she saw that here. you are fortunate to have such beauty all around you. [applause]

another verse -- she said, "oh -- forul for europe's heroes proved and strife.. do we have and the veterans in the run? raise your hand. [applause] thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you for your service. thank you. the beauty of america is not just sell land. the beauty of america is the people. there is one more versa want to mention -- oh beautiful for patriot and dream that sees beyond the years. the idea is that people who founded this country, the founding fathers, drafted concepts that were not just for their time, were not temporary, but were endorsing.

what makes us the nation we are is not just our dna. we have the same dna as the other human beings on the planet. what makes this the richest nation and the world and the most powerful and the shining city on the hill, the exceptional land is the values, the principles that are -- or part of our founding documents and continue to rein in america. when they wrote the declaration of independence, they penned revolutionary words. and did not give us our rights, the state did i give us our rights, the creator gave everyone his or her rights. [applause] i am distressed as i watched our president tried to infringe upon those rights. the first amendment of the constitution provides the right to worship in the way of our own

choice. this administration argued before the supreme court that a church should not be able to determine who their ministers are but the government should decide who qualifies as a minister and who should not. [boos] some of the members of the court are pretty liberal. they decided 9-0 that president obama was wrong. [applause] just this last week, this same administration said that churches in the institutions they run such as schools and let's say adoption agencies and hospitals, that they have to provide for them -- their employees fear in charge contraceptives, morning after pills -- abortive pills, and the like at no cost think what that does to people who do not share

those views. this is a violation of conscience. we must have a president was willing to protect americans first right, a right to worship god according to the dictates of our own conscience. [applause] the creator and data with certain unalienable rights including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. you guys know that one. by the way, for these high- school and college students, and college students here? one. for these high school and college students, i hope you don't gloss over that phrase, ' the pursuit of happiness." what happened with the founding documents was the belief that we would not be limited in our pursuit of happiness by the circumstance of our birth or the place of our birth.

we would instead be tuesday -- free to choose our cars and light and by virtue of that choice being given to us as americans, people from all over the world seeking freedom and opportunity came here. this is where they wanted to come and created the most powerful nation on the history of the earth. this pursuit of happiness has driven americans to be the pioneering nation, the innovative nation. that is how we stay at all the other nations in the world. i don't think the president understand this like you. valued the founding documents. i value the principles that make this the great nation we are very i don't want to fundamentally transform america as the president says. i want to restore to america the principles that made as the nation we are. [applause] this is a critical time in our nation's history. we will either keep on borrowing

massively or live within our means. we will either have government tells what kind of help their -- health care we can have or have a government that protects religious diversity and freedom or one that tells us what kind of conscience we should have. will either have a nation that stands -- doesn't stand up against our enemies are a nation that stands with their friends. that is the choice that america has bradys are critical times. i happen to believe that because we are a patriotic people who love the principles of america that if we are led by men and women who will tell the truth and live with integrity, who know how to lead, to know what makes america america and are willing to draw upon the patriotism of the american people that we will overcome any challenges we have. i intend to be one of those leaders with your help. i will keep america strong and

the shining city on the hill. thank you so much. thank you, guys. thank you. thank you. [applause] [cheers and applause. ] what a welcome. thank you. ♪ [born free] ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> the road to the white house coverage continues tonight with the results of caucuses in colorado and minnesota and a primary in missouri. the caucuses continue all week in maine and later in the month, contests and arizona and michigan followed by the washington caucuses at the beginning of march. you can see the latest video of

the gop presidential candidates and president obama campaigning online at c-span.org. at our website, you can click on social media buzz to read what others are saying about the presidential race. all that and more at c- span.org/campaign 2012. >> they know america, where freedom is made real for all. without regard to race or believe or economic conditions. [applause] i mean a new america which attacks the ancient idea that men can solve their differences by killing each other. [applause]

>> as candidates campaigned for president, we look back at 14 man who ran for the office and lost. go to our website, c-span.org/ the contenders, to see video of those who had a lasting impact on american politics. >> the profits of the radical liberal left continue to offer only one solution to the problems which confront us -- they tell us again and again and again -- we can spend our way out of trouble and spend our way into a better tomorrow. [boos] >> c-span.org/the contenders. >> federal reserve chairman ben bernanke is on capitol hill this morning to talk about the economic outlook. he will testify before the senate budget committee at 10:00 eastern you concede that live on c-span 3. here on c-span in a few moments,

we will look at today's headlines and take your calls live on "washington journal." the house of representatives is in session for general speeches at 10:00 a.m. eastern with legislative business beginning at noon. the agenda today includes the swearing in of the newly elected member from oregon's first district. the federal aviation administration temporarily closed last year because congress could not agree on funding the agency. there is now an agreement on long-term funding for the faa. in about 45 minutes, we'll talk with house transportation committee chairman, john mica. the house education and work force committee will be hearing president obama's recess supplements to the national labor relations board. we'll talk ou