we are creatures of god. that is where we get our rights from. we had a country that was based on a constitution that was constructed to protect those rights. we are going to believe in limited government and free people. never before in history of the world had that happened, that we would allow people to have radical freedom. our founders believed with god- given rights, with all rights come responsibilities. [applause] and if we exercise those rights consistent with his will, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness -- happiness at the time of the revolution was to do the morally right thing with

god's will, because that is what leads to true happiness. that is what our founders believed. [applause] and so we had this great experiment of building of great society was limited government from the bottom up, and we changed the world. winston churchill said the debate is not about the future, it is about the past. we have a president of the united states who is trying to redefine america's past, giving speeches that capitalism doesn't work and individual liberty leads to greed and unfairness and misallocation of resources. written in all our hearts,

people who came to this country and the ancestors who followed them is in fact an understanding of who we are, of what made us great bid for 2000 years prior to america, life expectancy in the world was 35. in 200 years, it has more than doubled, because we unloosed the spirit of the individual, the family, the church, of the civic and community organization and the small businessman. we build a great and just society and family, one church, one school, one business. we believed in it. in 2008, the american public was sold a bill of goods. there were lots of problems and

so we had a candidate that went around and try to convince you that you needed to vote for someone you could believe in, someone who would solve the problems, pay your mortgage, as one person even suggested. but after four years of looking at what put your faith in government can do, we as republicans need to step forward and nominate someone different, someone who can tell the american public that no longer do you need to look to washington d.c. and its president you can believe in, but you need to look at a leader that believes in you. [applause] i appreciate it. thank you. [cheers and applause] [inaudible]

>> thank you, senator santorum. please welcome our panelists. please be seated. >> the first question will come from our teenager. he has his own television show. >> senator, it is an honor and privilege. >> -- bashing in prayer in 1863. much of the condition that our country is in today. we have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation

has grown before. we have forgotten god. blessed be the nation that is guided by the lord. we as americans believe in the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. we live in a country that has seen more than 50 million abortions. how will you, like lynn can li ichncoln, lead our country back god? >> there has been a lot of criticism about me in the press. i am very public about my beliefs and my christian faith. [applause] >> one of my favorite things -- preached the gospel. if you have to, speak.

i think a part of your responsibility as a public figure, is to go out and be paid in a way that is consistent with what you profess to believe in. that is important. one of the reasons i got so upset -- there was a supreme court case. the obama administration tried to force a religious organization to hire a minister that did not believe in the fate they were being hired to serve. a remarkable thing -- it was discrimination according to the obama administration. it not to hire someone that did not believe in the teachings of the church. that is the extreme we are going to do. i believe we have to have a president that goes out and

articulate a vision that is not just freedom of worship. they're starting to say that in the state department more and more. they do not use the word religious freedom. but religious worship. it is not everything of our religion, what we do outside of our religious worships is just as important as what we do it inside. [applause] what you will see is -- correct the course of this campaign, we will talk about the importance of faith in public life. about the importance of being involved in public life, and speaking out. from religious convictions or

non religious convictions. it is referred to as the perfect remedy of the first amendment. all people of faith and no faith, of different faiths can come into the public square and make their arguments. a little christianne, it looks like a little piece of barbwire. that is the trunk upon which all of our freedoms stem. if we do not protect that, if we do not protect that and fight for that in this country, in the public square as well as the ability for those of the public to speak the truth, then we are not a free country. if you cannot speak with you believe, then why speak? [applause] >> thank you, senator.

>> welcome to alabama. many major job creation have a competitive bidding process. in recent years, labor unions had made decisions, pointing out flaws and special interests having an effect on those decisions. what actions with your administration take to ensure the special interests would not be able to interfere with those of an administrative or legislative decisions? >> i feel very blessed to be running the kind of campaign that i am running. i have always felt this way. when i first ran for congress, i was elected against -- in a democratic election. i was outspent. i know what that feels like. but i was able to win. i did not a single contribution

from anyone in washington, d.c.. i won election night. i never thought i could win again. didn't no chance of winning, iran against the democratic incumbent for the united states senate -- iran against the democratic incumbent for the united states senate. they wanted a piece of me. i was able to come to the u.s. congress as well as the senate and do what i thought was right. i found at it was a liberating senate. he did not have to worry about what they believe it or what this particular group believed. i think we have gotten 11. i look at it s, the beauty of

our race is that we can go there with clean hands. not having relied on anyone except hundreds of thousands of donors and volunteers across this country who have helped us. that is a blessing. it is a blessing to go there and not feel any kind of tether or tie. i found in the years i was in office, if you just focus on doing the right thing, you do not focus on building relationships with people outside of government who may or may not be helpful, but stay focused on trying to do what is right. that is what i've done in this campaign. i have not gone out in fund- raisers all over the country. we packed up. we let all of our belongings at home. we lived off of the land and the people of this country have an

absolutely marvelous in giving us just enough of what we needed. i am blessed to occupy that oval office -- hopefully. the people who have helped us across this country -- average citizens who had no voice, except the voice of wanting to be free again. thank you. >> the last question will be from michael smith. >> thank you for coming. as a son of a marine veteran, and sunday at father, the national security of our country is an issue. the world in which we live in an art children will inherit will see further chaos. this administration plus the on

going to go to stabilise of iraq and afghanistan -- what actions will you take to ensure that we will be more secure than today? >> i have a definitive plan. i put forward a very definitive plan as to what we should be doing to overthrow that government. to the attention on that government. they will not developing nuclear program. when i spoke to earlier this week, i was very clear. i said in this time, obviously, the israelis are at their wits' end. they have been waiting. i run ira --n is now ready for six or seven nuclear weapons. they continue to enrich. they have 40 different locations. they're buried in the

mountainsides. we know what they are doing. and yet, this president goes out and misrepresents what they do and who they are to the american people. that is one thing i'll never do. i will never lie to the american public for my own political gain. i will tell you the truth and the whole truth. [applause] >> and the whole truth is there is a group of radical islamists, radical, if not more so than al qaeda and bin laden who run one of the most richest countries in the world which is iran. and unless we're able to stop that government from developing these weapons, those weapons will be used one way or the other, they'll either be used directly against targets which they've already identified, israel being one of them. they will be used indirectly by getting those nuclear materials in the hands of terrorist organizations, to be used all

over the world, or they will be used indirectly in the sense they will be protected because they now have nuclear weapons and the ability to retaliate. they will be able to pervade terror of the nonnuclear type, all over the world, including here in the united states, without fear of being defeated. eight years ago i put forth a bill that said we need to work with the persian people. that's right, the persian people. the people in iran are not arabs. they are persians. they have a proud and great civilization. if you go back and read your bible, it's not a civilization that is hostile to jews. and yet we have them taking over by a bunch of radical islamic thugs. what we need to do is what i've been doing eight years, try to encourage the persian people to take their country back from these radicals. i passed a bill that was fought by barack obama and joe biden in 2006 that would have funded these groups, that would have helped them to carry on a

revolution. joe biden and barack obama fought that. eventually it was passed right before the end of the session at the end of 2006. but neither george bush nor barack obama gave main to those who wanted to overthrow the current government because they were afraid it might upset the iranian government. and when the time came for a revolution which did in define where they were bleeding in the straits holding the signs, saying please, president obama, help us overthrow these people killing americans with i.e.d.'s, overthrow the folks that have been holding americans captives almost continuously since 1979. overthrow the people who threaten the state of israel with annihilation. overthrow the funders of hamas and hezbollah and the funder of assad in syria. and barack obama said no, we're going to join with the radical islamists and legitimatize this

election. ladies and gentlemen, in this race, we have one person, served eight years on the armed services committee, has a track record on iran that got it right on what to do to avoid a war in iran. over the last eight years. and we have a president who has gotten it wrong on every call. [applause] >> i don't know what the most important issue is going to be this fall, but if it's national security, the best candidate by far to go up against barack obama and show the american public how pathetic his foreign policy and how dangerous his foreign policy is, not just for israel, not just for the middle east, but for every american is rick santorum and that's why i'd like your help. [applause] >> thank you, senator.

senator, i know that you have a very tight schedule. i know you're supposed to be in montgomery shortly but i want to take a point of personal privilege and ask you a question. the founder of our republican party, i should say conservative movement in the country, william f. buckley jr., made the statement many years ago and he said this, when you go to the polls, vote for the republican that's most conservative and can win the election. would you explain to alabamians why you're the most conservative who can win in november? >> go back to the issues we know are at the heart of this election, and that is the role of government in your lives, the role of government in business, and government usurping your freedom, your taxes, your money. and look at the key issues that motivated republicans and conservatives across this country that was able to get swing voters to join us in droves to win the 2010 election.

there were issues based upon that, none bigger than obamacare. the wall street bailouts where wall street walks away with bonuses and americans sit in homes that are still under water. and of course, barack obama's attempt in the past and attempt in the future, rest assured, to take over the energy and manufacturing sector of the economy with cap and trade, or cap and tax. [applause] >> if you look at those key issues that were the motivators for the conservative movement, that draw the clearest contrast between president obama and our vision of free people and limited government, there is one candidate that draws that clear contrast. we're not going to win this election because we're going to outspend barack obama 10-1 in the fall. we're not. or 5-1 or 2-1. we'd be lucky to be 1-1. so the person who has the most money, it doesn't matter in a

general election because you won't have the most money. you better have the person who has the best contrast, the best ideas, the best vision for our country to remind us who we are. and if you look at all of those issues on health care, how many people familiar with health savings accounts? when bill clinton was trying to impose hillary care, john kasay and i, now the governor of ohio, we were in the house budget committee and came up with the idea of now health savings account. for 20 years i've been arguing for public sector health care, from the bottom up, individual control, not government mandates. [applause] >> frankly, the other people in this race are just wrong on this issue. both have supported government mandates at the federal level, one for 20 years. the other put forth on a state level a template for obamacare and advocated for it and then told republican audiences

through 20 debates he didn't do that when in fact he did. it's one thing to have bad policy in the state, it's another thing to advocate for it and a third thing to not tell the truth about what you did. and we need someone willing to tell the truth to the american public. we have a clear contrast on the biggest issue of the day between me and president obama. we don't. why would the republican party give that issue away, the most salient and important issue. i oppose the individual mandate and oppose obamacare. why would we put up anybody who supported both? why do we put up someone who supported the wall street bailout. i didn't. the other two in this race have. why would we support someone who supported cap and trade when the climate was right for everyone believing we need to do something about co-2 emissions.

i didn't go along like a well- oiled weathervane but stood tall and said this was bad science, this was political science, not climate science. [cheers and applause] >> we want to elect the most elective conservative, first elect a conservative because that's the one that's going to be most electable. vote not >> ron paul! >> vote not with what the pundits say. punditste with what the say. trust your own heart and your own head. if you would have voted what the pundits say we would have had george h.w. bush in 1980 and not ronald reagan. and where would we be as a country? someone would have forgotten to raise their lips 10 years sooner. we need someone who can stand up and unapologetically talk about what made this country great, encourage people to believe in themselves, believe in the greatness of the american people and our institutions, not

the government. there's one candidate that can do that, and i ask for your support. thank you. >> thank you, senator. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> los angeles >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome karen santorum, senator santorum's wife. and john. >> thank you. thank you. thank you.

[applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, are you enjoying tonight? [cheers and applause] >> it's certainly exciting to see all the enthusiasm here tonight, and i'm confident this enthusiasm will go all the way to november because there's one thing we all have in common and that is we have to defeat barack obama as president of the united states. well, listen, it's been great to hear from one candidate and

we're about to hear from another candidate. i know that you all have been anxiously anticipating having all the candidates with us tonight and we're so fortunate we have two of them. so at this time i'd like to tell you a little bit about our next speaker. newton leroy gingrich. [cheers and applause] >> better known of newt, is of german, english, scottish, irish descent. that should reach everybody. gingrich received a b.a. degree from emeritt university in 1965. he then provided to earn an m.a. in 1968 and a p.h.d. in 1971 in modern european history. both from tulane university. gingrich has two daughters, kathy gingrich lubers and kathy gingrich cushman.

he represented georgia's sixth congressional district for 20 years and elected speaker of the house from 1995-1999. speaker gingrich has remained active in debates and worked as a political consultant and now as you know, he's running for president of the united states. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome speaker newt gingrich. [cheers and applause] >> he's on his way. he's on his way. i didn't talk long enough. thank so you much for your enthusiasm. please be seated. you can rise again and roar again when the time comes. so when speaker gingrich is

behind this curtain, he can open it up and come on through. hope you enjoyed the beautiful music on the organ tonight. [applause] [cheers and applause] [applause] >> thank you for that very warm welcome. as somebody who went to high school in columbus, georgia,

right next to alabama and taught at west georgia, college, right next to alabama, i kind of feel relatively at home here. in fact, this morning when i had grits, i thought it was a very normal thing to do. although i have to confess i was down along the coast so i had grits and shrimp which is exactly not the atlanta version. but i'm delighted to be here. we're thrilled by the very warm reception we've gotten everywhere. and i want to take a couple minutes of your time, if you don't mind. most of you know i almost never use written stuff and don't own a teleprompter so i have to do a lot of stuff off the cuff. but the president's press secretary today basically attacked me because as many of you know, i've been talking about the need if for an american energy policy and the idea that we should develop our capacity for oil to a point where no american president

would ever again bow to a saudi king. [applause] >> and i have suggested that if we developed our energy capacity to the degree we could, that that would bring down the price of gasoline. on the theory that supply and demand works. this is not something obama is very used to. this is not a bureaucratic trickle-down, shovel-ready, solyndra, let's go bankrupt together policy. [applause] >> and the president has made three speeches in a press conference recently in energy which i'll come back to in a minute but today i'm taking particular note jay carney said the following, talking about the president, what he's not willing to do is look the

american people in the eye and claim there is a strategy by which he can guarantee the price of gas will be $2.50 at the pump. any politician who does that is lying. because that strategy does not exist. it is a simple fact there is no such plan that can guarantee the price of oil or the price at the pump, close quote. that's been interpreted by the news media since i'm the only person talking about $2.50 as probably being an attack on me. so i want to take this moment toi want to take a moment to respond to the president and his press secretary. first of all, mr. president, i would be happy to debate you anywhere in the country, any time, on energy. [applause] i believe your energy speeches have been so patently incoherent that they are indefensible. i would debate you at an oil rigs somewhere, a refinery, and

would be glad to meet you at a gas station. the university campus, where you would feel comfortable. and i would be happy in advance to agree that you could use a teleprompter. but by pure luck, there was a column over the weekend in "the wall street journal" untitled newt is right on gasoline and that outlined in the case pretty well. but this morning, stephen moore had something that was so astounding i want to beg your indulgence. this is what he wrote. in 1995, the u.s. geological survey estimated 150 million technically recoverable barrels of oil in north dakota and able 2008 the number was up to about 4 billion barrels and in 2010 geologist's in continental

resources, the major geological -- put it $8 billion. given the discovery of a lower shelf of oil, they announced 24 billion barrels of oil bank in north dakota. current technology allows for the extraction of only about 6% of the oil trap 1 mile to 2 miles beneath the earth's surface, so as the technology advances, recovery of oil could eventually exceed 500 billion barrels. this is the north dakota. there are bigger plays under development now at eagle forge shale in south texas and wolfe camp texas. i'll give you examples. the monterey formation may contain 80 billion barrels. let me start with something washington doesn't want to deal with and in particular liberals don't want to deal with. the idea of peak energy is a stupid idea and does not exist and is a technologically

limited model that has been the basis for american energy policy for 40 years and is wrong. the president will never learn this. for a variety of reasons, one is ideological and the other is his choice. he appointed as the secretary of anti-energy dr. chu. and dr. chu said before he was appointed, his committee -- he's an academic physicist, research scientist. his commitment was that the united states, americans, should pay the same price of gasoline as europeans. that's $9 or $10 a gallon. dr. chu was asked last week what he thought the right price -- was he willing to try to lower the price of gasoline? and he said no. he is not in the business of lowering the price of gasoline. he is in the business of

developing replacements for gasoline. he then explained about some breakthrough in battery research, which i suspect in 15 to 20 years' time will be useful. but most of us don't have 15 to 20 years to fill up our cars. now -- i believe -- so first of all, i believe the lesson of where we are is that we should abolish the department of energy as a grotesque failure. [cheers and applause] >> i simply want to start with the premise no more solyndras, no more boondoggles, now let's talk about energy. the president said there's no silver bullets. he's right. but there is a presidential panel. -- pen. he could sign three documents and change the oil trajectory of the united states. first, he could approve the

keystone x.l. pipeline. [cheers and applause] >> that is 700,000 barrels a day of canadian oil coming to houston and it opens up and improves delivery of north dakota oil, delivery of kansas, arkansas, oklahoma, and east texas oil so it lowers the price of all of them. in oklahoma they told me it's probably worth $68 a barrel by lowering the cost. second, he could approve the reopening of areas off texas and louisiana in the gulf. that's 400,000 barrels a day. third, he could approve designated areas in alaska for about 1,200,000 barrels. that means in those three steps we've added 2,300,000 barrel as day and over 800 million barrels a year to the u.s. oil supply and kept that amount of oil at home to create jobs here rather than sending it to saudi arabia.

now, the president in his speech emphasized drilling is not the answer, and the president offered an answer. anyone here know what the answer was? >> no. how many of you new the president's answer was algae? raise your hand. i believe in science and technology and i believe in biofuels and think the research is terrific and i think some place down the road eventually algae will probably be helpful. i do not think this summer we'll be putting algae in your cars. [applause] >> i think i am the one candidate who can win this race because i'm the one candidate who is the only one to design a very big choice campaign and i worked with reagan in 1984 and redesigned it for george bush in 1988 when he was down by 19 points and won by six. one in every four americans

switched their position between may and november. the 1994 campaign was a big choice, the 1996 campaign, even while a moderate was losing the presidency, we were getting re- elected to the house for the first time since 1928. so let's take an obvious big choice. i want to run this on the following energy policy, you can elect president algae and have $10 a barrel and elect president drilling and have $2.50 a barrel. you decide which future is better for your family. now, this is why i want to debate obama this fall, if i become your nominee, i will challenge him to seven lincoln douglas style three-hour debate with a timekeeper but no moderator. [applause] >> i think the difference is so wide. he believes in the writing of saul alinsky, i believe in the

declaration of independence and the constitution of the united states. he believes in apologizing to those killing our young men and women. i will never apologize. [cheers and applause] [applause] [crowd chanting "newt"] >> need a candidate who is capable, first of all, of running a campaign that eliminates obama's billion dollar ad campaign by proving to people, for example, on gasoline. you can't buy enough ads to convince the american people they're not paying too much. [laughter] >> and that's the kind of campaign you have to run. i watched ronald reagan, i

worked on the reagan campaign in 1980, i understand how you pick the right fights at the right level and how you make the choice vivid. but you also need somebody to work with the congress to get something done. we are not just in the business of defeating obama. we're in the business of replacing the bureaucracies, correcting the laws and replacing judges to getting a country back on the right track. that requires far more than just having good consultants, negative advertising, and the ability to read somebody's notes. that requires understanding the constitution, understanding how to take 435 house members and 100 senators and how to work with the american people, because in order to change washington, you have to be active as citizens. we can impose change in washington, but washington will never voluntarily change itself.

[applause] >> so if i become the nominee with your help tomorrow, if i end up as the nominee, i will ask every candidate running on a ticket with me to pledge they will stay in office on january 3 and before i am sworn in on january 20, they will repeal obamacare. [cheers and applause] >> they will repeal the dodd- frank bill. they will repeal sarbanes-oxley. and on the very first day of the new administration, i will sign all three of those repeals to clear the slate and focus on getting positive things done to create jobs in america. and on the first day, about two hours after the inaugural

address, i will sign a series of executive orders. the first one will abolish all of the white house czars as of that moment. [cheers and applause] >> we will on that very first day move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem in defense of israel's right of sovereignty. we will on that first day reinstate ronald reagan's mexico city policy and no taxpayer money will be spent on abortion outside of the united states, period. [cheers and applause]

>> the obama administration apologizes to radical islamist religious fanatics while attacking the catholic church and right to life institutions to the united states. on the very first day i'll issue an executive order repealing every anti-religious act of this administration. [cheers and applause] >> and to go back to energy, on the very first day, i will sign the pipeline for canada, and i'm telling the canadians every day, don't cut a deal with china, help is on the way, we want the pipeline in the united states. [applause] >> i can only do all of these things with your help. the primary tomorrow really matters. and your vote really matters. and i hope you will decide that having an experienced leader who's actually helped do these things before and who is capable of taking obama head on

is what we need as a party, and more importantly, what we need as a country. and i look forward very much to the questions. [cheers and applause] >> i had to see if he was done. he was getting so many applause, i cannot tell. we are going into another part of the program. we have three panelists that i do not think you had a chance to meet. we got daniel moss, the 16- year-old 10th grader, michael smith is a banking software analyst. -- rose mary, the head of aib in

alabama. you have the first question. >> president lincoln's proclamation for a day of national prayer it. -- national humiliation, fasting, and prayer, and 8063 echoes much of what the country is going through today. i agree with his words -- we have grown in numbers, wells, and power than any other nation has grown before. we have forgotten god. bless it is the nation who's god is lord. live in a country that has seen over 50 million abortions since roe v. wade became law. how would you like lankan lead our nation back to god? -- lincoln, lead our nation back to god? >> that is a very powerful and important question.

first of all,you have to have a president that believes that is part of their responsibility, something which obama does not. you have to have a president that is prepared to pray. i had a project to have franklin delano roosevelt's d- day prayer. when we landed in normandy, franklin roosevelt went on national radio and 46 and a half minutes he prayed. -- for 6 and a half minutes, he prayed. he did not say god bless america. he said, would you join me in prayer? the country joined the commander in chief in pricing. -- prayeing. it is powerful and poignant. we have to center the country around this. we have to bring the federal judges back into enforcing the constitution, not rewriting it. part of what makes my campaign different, we have a 54-page

document on the founding fathers and the judiciary that wound up -- outlined step-by-step how to bring the judiciary back in line and eliminated this lawless and position of elite values by anti religious figures. part of it frankly is to take on the elite media. there is a brand new show out that has the word christian in the title and it deliberately viciously anti-christian. i would suggest to all of you if you imagine the exact same show with the title muslim in the title you would know it is impossible -- no one would even think of it. it just tells you how bad the anti-christian bigotry has become among our elites, and we need a president prepared to say had on that this kind of behavior is reprehensible, destructive, bigoted, and should not be tolerated in polite society.

>> mr. speaker, welcome. many major job creation and decisions were made through a bidding process. labor unions have been able to sway the outcome of these decisions. critics have pointed out the flaws of enabling special interest groups to determine the investments. funded by taxpayers. what actions will your administration take to ensure that special interests will not be able to interfere with administrative or legislative decisions? >> we need a whole new generation of appointees. one of the major proposals is to eliminate 130-year-old civil service law laws and replace them with a modern management system. [applause] let me also say, we are going to have to take the public employee unions had on. they have become a very destructive force. there is a reason that president roosevelt was always opposed to public employees

having unions. their ultimate employee -- employer was the tax union. -- the ultimate employer was the taxpayer and you could not have union's negotiating against the people. there is a great deal to be said about government unions being dangerous. if we are truly serious about saving money, we have to look at union-way to set aside to which automatically raises the cost for every city, county, school board and state -- if they build something with federal funding, they spend extra to meet a union wage which does not even exist in the area they are building them. then as the son of a marine, husband of the beautiful wife and some they thought of children, the national security of our country is dear to me. the world in which we currently

live in appears to be falling into further chaos. with iran on the verge of becoming a nuclear power, this administration's pour support of israel plus the ongoing struggles to stabilize iraq and afghanistan, what actions would you specifically take to make sure our tomorrow is greater and more secure than today? >> that is a very powerful, important question. my dad spent 27 years in the infantry. this is a place where differences are pretty wide. obama it clearly believes in appeasement, apologies, and weakness as a national strategy. i believed in strength, honesty, and firmness as a national strategy. we could not be further apart. [applause] i want to give you three examples in this administration. the first is intellectual coherence. -- incoherent. when we picked up a moroccan man that was trying to bomb the u.s. capitol.

under the obama administration's rules, the fbi could not write down what motivated him because it would be politically incorrect. they do with terrorism as if it was a psychotic behavior where it is a fanatic behavior. fundamental difference. they deal with that as if it was isolated, when it is a network of the papers. -- network of behaviors. it is an enormous problem. we had an army major at fort hood that shot and killed 14 americans and wounded 33. he had in his wallet a car that said soldier of allah. he had regular contact with a cleric in yemen that urged the killing of americans. the army, i think, to institutional shame refused and the report on the incident to deal with the religious motivations which were clearly at the heart of what he was doing. you start with the notion we

have to develop intellectual honesty about what threatens us. second, the president's proposal to dramatically cut the defense budget is suicidal. it is absolutely suicidal. [applause] budget is suicidal. [applause] let me say in passing that one leon panetta at testified in the senate that he believed that a nato agreement or united nations agreement superseded the congress, he should resign as secretary of defense. [applause] he has forgotten, he is not the united nations secretary of defense. he is the united states secretary of defense. we have yielded none of our constitutional authority from the congress to the united nations or to nato to authorize use of force without the congress approving.

he is 100% fundamentally wrong. all of us should be alarmed at the idea that the congress that we elect no longer matter and a group of foreigners are now the group of people that decide whether young americans will be at risk. it is a fundamental mistake by panetta. in terms of iran, we should have a short-term and long-term strategy. our long-term strategy should be based on ronald reagan, margaret thatcher, and pope john paul ii and it should be to undermine and replace the government's by using every non- military means possible. we defeated the soviet government without any warfare. -- without a general war, because we broke their capacity to resist. we can defeat the dictatorship in iran decisively if we have a real strategy to do so. [applause]

in the short run, we should say to the iranians. we are serving notice that no israeli prime minister will run the risk of a second holocaust. no israeli prime minister would allow an overt enemy to have nuclear weapons. if you processed on what you're -- persist in what you are doing and the israelis decide that they cannot take the risk, they will bomb you. when they do, we will understand why they do that. we are telling you in advance you should quit doing best if you do not want to get bombed. if you do get a bond, it is your fault because you were being provocative. [applause] >> thank you, mr. speaker. that completes the questions from the panel. but i would like to take a point of personal privilege and ask a question. that great conservative icon william f. buckley jr. said that we should go to the polls and vote for the most

conservative republican that can win in the election. can you tell al -- alabamans what you are that person? -- why you are that person? >> sure. i did not come here to speak ill of anybody. there are fundamental differences. you look at governor romney's ratings when he left massachusetts. you look at santorum's defeat. and a look at what i have done. i helped found the georgia republican party. i worked there when there was no georgia gop. i ran for congress in the middle of watergate. i worked five years to win a congressional seat. it took 16 years to create a national majority. i held to resign the first -- and helped design of the first capitol steps event in history. we won the senate when nobody thought that we could. in 1984, i set a record. -- and helped design a campaign

that set a record, we picked up 33 house seats. in 1988, we were behind. -- we were behind dukakis 19 points in may. we designed a reagan-style campaign. we did not try to go to the middle. as he ran over here as a reagan conservative promising no new taxes and standing for national defense ad attacking the kind of massachusetts liberalism that dukakis represented. we switched 25% of the country. one out of four american switch their view. in 1984, nobody thought it was possible. we designed a contract campaign, in which we went to the american people on a positive basis. i would offer paychecks rather than food stamps. i would offer the constitution. i would offer $2.50 a gallon gasoline. people want real choices.

[applause] this has been a hard race. we jumped in in june and july. all of the elite money said that we were dead. it is pretty tough to raise money when you are dead. [laughter] we came back and by december, we were the front runner. we came back from iowa. we won south carolina. then we got $20 million of negative advertising in florida. we came back. we carried 156 out of 159 counties in georgia because they knew me well enough that they repudiated the negative advertising. with your help, we stayed in the race for two reasons. i do not believe the other two candidates can be obama. -- can beat obama, and i believe this is the most important race in our lifetime. i will not leave the field. be obama.

when we win, we can't just be obama, but we have to win in a principled way that we can actually change washington decisively or we are not calling to get this country on the right track. i think i am the only candidate who can do that. thank you all very much. [applause] >> speaker newt gingrich. thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, panelists. thank you, ladies and gentlemen for being here. mrs. gingrich's down on the front row. she will be down here to greet visitors. adjusted couple of things i would like to say in conclusion. tomorrow, please go to the polls, get all your friends and

relatives, work hard for the candidate of your choice. but even more important than ever, when we get our nominee at the convention this august, please, get behind that nominee, whoever that may be and work like your life depended on it, because it does. thank you, ladies and gentleman. >> newt gingrich and rick santorum spoke at a forum hosted by the alabama republican party. our "road to the white house" coverage of alabama and mississippi primaries begin at 7:00 p.m. tonight. you can see candidates' speeches and the results. you can join in the conversation by phone and by facebook, as well as follow us on twitter.

here on c-span, at 10:00 a.m. eastern, energy secretary chu about the loan guarantee program and will be expected to be asked about solyndra. also, the senate will be back in session. after an hour of general speeches, members will continue to work on the transportation bill. you can see that on c-span2. and the senate armed services committee will hear from the heads of the northern and southern command's about the administration that a budget request and national security issues in north and south america. that is on c-span 3 at 9:30 a.m. eastern. in about 45 minutes, after a look at the headlines, we will focus on the u.s. military and diplomatic roles and afghanistan diplomatic roles and afghanistan after the