wherever you go to church or synagogue or if you don't go at all. whoever your parents are, we want your american dream to come true. it is republicans who want the dishwasher to own her own restaurant someday. that want theans wages of all our workers to be competitive and fair. that want tocans see the housekeeper go to law school if that is her american dream. it is republicans that want to see the unemployed have [applause] guest we want to see no american left behind. it will be a tough fight to get that message out. we have to do it. it is imperative that we win the and absolutelyr

essential for freedom's sake that we take the white house in 2016. [applause] the future of our nation is at stake here it not suggesting you still car batteries. we must be tenacious. we must be unstoppable and we must get the job done this year and in 2016. there is no other choice. during the next few months as you are knocking on doors and maybe getting tired or want to waiver for a moment, i want you to think about something. right now, somewhere in afghanistan, a young american soldier is holding onto a rifle and demanding a post for our freedom. that warrior is there for you and for me. he is there every day, day after tour.fterfter two

[applause] surely you and i can knock on a few more doors and make a few more phone calls. ands do this for america for our country. let's do this for freedom. millionsthis for those of fellow americans that have been left behind by this president. thank you. [applause] >> i get to introduce our next speaker. she is absolutely spectacular. a friend of mine and a fellow mississippian. i grew up in mississippi and our from laurel, which is where marsha blackburn is front.

has been a friend and a fighter for freedom all of her life. she completely understands the benefits of hard work. and the commitment to free markets. for six years, she served in the tennessee senate where she was instrumental in blocking an effort to start a state income tax. she fought tirelessly to advance our conservative agenda and her a superhas resulted in majority of americans in the tennessee senate, a super majority of republicans in the tennessee house and a republican governor. [applause] she has laid the groundwork for all of that. in congress, she has continued the fight. to fight for smaller government, fight for lower taxes, fight for empowering businesses and she has thought for a budget that finally got some support and we

now have a budget coming out of the house. finally. [applause] marsh understands the need for bipartisanship. can she has never -- you count on marsha blackburn to never compromise your values. her core values that are so important right now at this time in our country. ladies and gentlemen, it is an absolute privilege for me to welcome to the stage my congressman, marsha blackburn. [applause] >> thank you. my goodness! what a great crowd. you have all been such happy warriors today. i am so excited to be back in new hampshire. i love every visit that i have here. i am so pleased to enjoy a good day with citizens united.

caset they win a great court in the supreme court? there exercising the right to free speech. happyreid is not real with americans for prosperity right now. harry. he is not happy. i think harry reid does the exact same thing that you and i know 206 days from today we will take back the u.s. senate. [applause] something that harry reid and the liberals don't understand. what separates our form of american government from every other form. love and appreciation for liberty. we love it. it is in bed in who we are --

embedded in who we are. you can regulate or control it. every day in washington, we have people that are trying to restrict it. six years ago, barack obama told you, promised you his policies would fix the economy. what did you get? an $800 billion stimulus bill no new jobs. he promised you if you like your doctor, you could keep it. what happens? your health premiums are going up, your deductibles are going up and millions of americans are losing their doctor and health coverage. barack obama promised you that eign ingoing to rain executive power. but we got is an imperial president who plays like he is the king and goes out and does

what he wants to do by executive power. -- mr.resident president, congress does not pass suggestions. we pass laws and it's about time you started following them. [applause] these are all examples of centralized government. it is bearing down on free people. it is what our founders fought against. are all fighting against. we know it is wrong. i have to tell you, the american people know it's wrong. gallup did a survey recently and found that 72% of all americans say the biggest threat to our nation's security is the government. [applause] that is amazing. part ofly fascinating , 56% of all democrats

say the biggest threat to our nation is big government. when the democrats say government is too big, we all know government is too big. it is time that we do something about it. think about it. they fight for government. what do we fight for? we fight for people. we fight for opportunity and we fight for freedom. i want to talk with you for a few minutes about some of that fight. wee of the places that should be out here placing our energy for the next few months. let me start with a story from tennessee. how many music lovers way have any here? a lot of music lovers. i like seeing that. ul of really is the so tennessee.

we love playing it on gibson guitars and we play it loud. there is nothing more american than a gibson guitar. they build these great guitars in nashville and memphis. put hundreds of people to work in their factories. the federal government did not see it that way. with armede in federal marshals and kicked in the door is at gibson and treated them like they were selling crack instead of building guitars. you know why they did it? they didn't like the wood. they broke and because of the wood that gibson was using in the neck of those guitars. they buried the company and fines. they took their supply and a couple of years later, the feds wereo and that they

wrong and give back the wood. guess what gibson is doing. gibson has a sense of humor. they are doing a new line of guitars called the government serious. series.overnment every one of these guitars an eagle painted on the neck. it is time for the federal talentsnt to get their ne off the necks of the american entrepreneurs. it does not matter if it's the or the nsa.pa we conservatives are not going seen ourforcing our

government use as a weapon against our fellow citizens. it is time to ask ourselves, what will we do about it? we can be proactive or reactive. we know this -- our ideas work. we need to get out there and fight for them. we should be focused on expanding opportunity for every single american. america iste, another word for opportunity. you know who got that? ronald reagan. 1980 as , this is what he said. for those without job opportunities, we will stimulate opportunities where they live. for those who have abandoned hope, we will restore hope and we will welcome them into the great national crusade to make america great again. we have to move forward, but we are not going to leave anyone behind. he did not.

unleash thewas to power of opportunity. that is what made america rate. -- made america great. barack obama is no ronald reagan. where we find ourselves today is that only 15% of adults today thinking their children or grandchildren will have it better than they did. that is a sad stat. opportunity is the greatest gift that our parents gave to us. if we are going to give get ourselves on the road to prosperity and opportunity, we have to deal e obstacles. imagine what you would be doing if you didn't have to go write that check next week to the irs and pay those hefty taxes. i think it is wrong when we have americans struggling to live

within their means so they can pay taxes to a government that refuses to live within their means. [applause] we are all compassionate. we want to help. you had arthur brooks talk today about fighting poverty. we all know there is no more effective weapon against poverty than freedom and free markets. in 1970, the aid found that one in four people on the face of on one dollarng or less a day. today, it is one in 20. that is an 80% reduction in people living in extreme poverty. freedomned because of and free markets. , we need to extend opportunity for women.

i bet you got sick of hearing that war on women in the last campaign. the president love to say conservatives hate women. there is a war on women and the only thing women care about his birth control. , bless your little heart. date.aren't a cheap women want a little more out of life than contraceptives. [applause] what women want is not free contraceptives. what women want is opportunity. what we want his options. we want a level playing field. we want to unlock the potential of the american economy for us. we want to have choice. not the kind of toys that the democrat party talks about.

we want to have real choice. womenld love to see more entrepreneurs. more women innovators. more women ceos. we want conservative women to lead our party. we want conservative women to lead this country. [applause] the third thing we need to do is to go fight for our children. see a dynamico education system that focused on nurturing our children to help them make their dreams come true. figure out what their talents arnd skills are. to allow parents to get their child out of a bad school and into a high-performing school or a charter school. dayad a study the other looking at charter schools.

what it found in florida and chicago, those in charter 10%-11% more likely to go to college and 12% higher earnings coming out that very first year. the unions don't want charter schools. they want a happy meal education. dumped down, equal portions for everybody. that is what they would like. we need to fight those unions. fight for charter schools. let's get rid of common core and replace it with some common sense. [applause] fighting for these men and women in uniform that mark was talking about. we need a national security policy that preserves freedom and opportunity.

at a town hallme meeting, what is president obama's foreign-policy? i thought about it for a minute and i said, i think it really is pretty simple. you take the idea of an exceptional america and make it average. shining a beautiful city on a hill and you turn it bulb at thee dull united nations. america a mountaintop and you move it to the down in theomewhere neighborhood of bolivia and belarus. the world used to respect us. our allies are looking at us and saying, where have you been? -- ours are asking rivals are asking, how far can we push them? i want peace.

the world gets a say in this. that's why we have to be strong. china is out there beating their chest. you have russia that thinks that the cold war -- the end of the cold war was halftime. you have al qaeda moving out of pakistan. you have cyber attacks that hit our computer systems thousands of times a day and a president that wants to turn over the control of the internet to the united nations. we have to fight back against all of these challenges because it is our challenges that have made america strong. my friend, johnny cash, used to belt it out. steel is strong because it knew the hammer and white heat. is what america is. like a metal that get stronger

under pressure. we can rise to these challenges. we can win and fight back. don't take my word for it. look at what's going on in some of the states. you can look at those blue states like california and illinois or what's going on with some of the red state governors where they are actually pu lling the states back and building these economies. do you want to be more like california and illinois or more like the red states where good things are going on? that is what we want. let me tell you one more story. this is why i know we can win these battles. you heard a bit about of battle in tennessee against the state income tax when i was a states under. tough.s

everybody came to me and they said, it is a done deal. you need to sit down, shut up and vote no. guess what? down and iit definitely did not shut up. i did vote no, and with me to vote no, i carried a majority of the statehouse and the state senate. [applause] defeated that state income tax. the people of tennessee rose up r years sought the implementation of a state income tax. that is why we are one of the freest states and one of the five best places to do business. the people of that state said, we are not going to sit down and shut up and be subjected to

greater taxes. we did it at the state level and we can do it ourselves. there are a few things that liberals just never seem to understand. they don't get it. wishful thinking is not an economic policy. they don't get it. [laughter] they don't understand that jealousy is not a prescription for growth. they don't understand that prescription not a for hope and opportunity. it is up to us to make certain we send people to washington for better ideas and to be a part of the fight. we do not send them there to preside over the supply of america. we send them there to do their job. if we stand on principle and

stand together, yes, indeed, we that be inthe powers washington and we can push aside all of these tax raising, big lovingent bureaucrat politicians and we can get out there and take our country back. today to06 days from make certain we take the u.s. senate -- you in new hampshire are going to be a big part of making that happen. let's get out there and send a is the that this land land of the people. let's take it back. have a fantastic campaign season. thank you! [applause] please welcome back to the stage, dave.

>> all right. thank you all very much. it has been a great day. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, i believe we are at a tipping point in america. it is not just enough to say you're a true conservative during the campaign. we have seen time and time again, candidates say the right thing to get our votes. i believe you have to be a conservative once again elected as well. we have serious problems in this country that need fixing. our next speaker is a true conservative leader. i mean that in the truest sense of the word. ofcampaigned on getting rid obama care and he is living up to that promise still today. he campaigned on making top

votes to cut spending and he campaigned to deal with our crushing debt crisis. he has lived up to those promises, even though it's not popular with the lodging to an establishment. -- the washington establishment. at a time when our core conservative beliefs are under attack by president obama and his liberal allies and even some in the republican party, it is critically important we have strong, conservative leaders in office, taking a stand for our founding crystals. principles. with tax day bearing down on us, the irises growing more powerful every day. not only do they just collect taxes. it governs our health care and controls our right to participate in the political process. of big government is everywhere and we need leaders who understand this danger and will fight it at every turn.

with obama on track to change america for the worst, this president is ruling by executive order on issue after issue. now, more than ever, we need more conservative change agents to stand strong and offer real solutions to deal with this failing status quo. those that are in washington to manage the decay. ant's why, when i had opportunity to meet with this next speaker in my office in 2011, he told me he had the courage to take on the entire establishment, i was proud to be one of his early supporters. man who speaker is a does not just talk the talk. he walks the walk. in thene of the few united states senate willing to

take a stand for you and me. those in washington refused to listen to common sense. that man is senator ted cruz. [applause] >> wow. [applause] >> god bless new hampshire. [applause]

afp.less wow. each ofilled to be with you today. thank you for that incredibly warm welcome. blessed to me are have two little girls at home. caroline and catherine. caroline is five and catherine is three. indeed. for every one of you who are parents, you know god makes every child very different. is the essence of sweetness. she is just a sweet, sweet little girl. rascal. is a , heidi had those girls up in d.c. one weekend. a beautiful fall day.

we decided to show the girls mount vernon. we are driving down the george washington parkway. the trees are turning. they are red and orange and yellow. we are driving down and caroline is sitting behind me kicking the back of my seat like she always does. catherine is sitting on the other side. caroline asks her sister, catherine, what do you want to do when you grow up? catherine says, i want to work in the u.s. senate. i want to work with daddy. boring. says, that's we are going to be rock stars instead. zinger. tosses out the besides, daddy will be dead by then. [laughter] that's a real conversation. i'm sitting there like, hello,

i'm right in front of you. de me wonderake me if maybe caroline had been speaking with republican leadership. [laughter] >> you are the leadership >> "washington journal" continues! [applause] even more in portly, you are the leadership. there is nothing as scary in washington as what i'm going to face tonight. sext week, caroline turne six. when i get off the airplane, i'm going to a princess sleepover party. [laughter]

last week, caroline told me, daddy, you are not invited because you are not a girl. i said, sweetheart, if it is in my house, daddy is always invited. she proceeded to put her hands on her hips and say, fine, then we are going to play attack the daddy. in a few hours, i'm going to walk in my home to be greeted by 11 six-year-old girls dressed as disney princesses try to tackle me. let me ask for your prayers that i might see tomorrow morning. thrilled to be back here. to be back with so many friends new hampshire. i'm thrilled to encourage -- you

all are here because there is a sense of urgency to what's happening in this country. you all are here because you understand that this is not in or near retirement politics. archedeats we are facing her neck. ie most common thing hear is, ted, i'm scared. i'm scared for the direction of this country. i'm scared for my kids and grandkids. we're bankrupting the greatest country in the history of the world. profoundly optimistic. together, we will turn this nation around. [applause] let me tell you three things we need to do to turn this nation around. number one, we need to stand for

liberty. [applause] liberty has never been more under assault that it is right now. this administration has tried to go down the bill of rights and violate each one of them. irs that doesn't respect the first amendment. it is going after individual citizens saying, tell us what books you are reading. tell us the content of your prayers. federal government has no business asking any american is the content of our prayers. [applause] i do kind of wish the answer had been, forgive them, father, for they know not what they do.

you look at the second amendment. -- you don't need a punchline. [laughter] you just say his name. the next time you're at a party, ,alk up to someone and just say "joe biden" and close your mouth. they will crack up laughing. [laughter] said, "if anybody attacks your house, go outside with a double barrel shotgun and fire both into the air. ." that is very good advice. if it so happens you are being attacked by a flock of geese. [laughter]

look at the fourth and fifth amendments. our right to privacy. how many of you have your cell phones? please like to ask you, leave your cell phones on. i want to make sure president obama hears every word i have to say to them. [laughter] you look at the 10th amendment with the federal government trying to intrude into the prerogatives of the states all across the board. things like trying to set educational standards. we need to repeal common core. [applause] and then there's the pattern of lawlessness in this administration. ignoring law after law after law.

if this president does not agree with the law, he refuses to enforce it. whether immigration laws or welfare laws or marriage laws or drug laws. -- pleasebama care take obama care! [laughter] 30 times this president has simply unilaterally changed the law. no authority in the law for that. how many of you will remember sixth grade civics? your member schoolhouse rock how a bill becomes a law? apparently the president missed that tday. we have never had a president asserted the authority to ignore and unilaterally changed the law . this should trouble everybody. anybody who cares about rule of law and the constitution. when you have a president who

can pick and choose which laws to follow and which laws to ignore, you no longer have a president. [applause] to stand for liberty. number two, we need to stand for growth and opportunity. [applause] officeer one priority in from the day i was elected, bringing back jobs and economic growth. the reason is simple. that is the top priority of the xans i am proud to represent and the priority of americans all caps this country. you want to know why people are frustrated at washington? the biggest divide we have in this country is not between democrats and republicans. it is between entrenched

politicians in both parties in washington and the american people. [applause] all across this country, people are frustrated going, what is wrong with them? they get elected and go to washington and they stop listening to us. they stop listening. the top priority of the american people at his jobs and economic growth. in the year i have been in harry reid senate, we have not spent a minute talking about jobs and the number of. it is simply not a priority. aboute not talk fundamental tax reform. we should abolish the irs. [applause]

for five years, we have been trapped in the great stagnation under president obama. his policies are not working. the rich and powerful, those who walk the corridors of power are getting fat and happy. economic obama agenda. the top one percent the president loves to demagogue are in the higher share of our national income since 1920. nothing happened after 1928. [laughter] the people who have been hurt the most by the obama administration are the most vulnerable among us. young people come hispanics, african-americans, single moms. people who are struggling to climb the mer economic ladder. i think of all of the issues we face from the perspective of my

dad. 57 years ago, my dad fled cuba. and torturedrison and beaten almost to death in a cuban jail. he came to america at age 18, fling the batista regime. he could not speak in the spirit he had $100 so and was underwear . i don't advise caring money in your underwear. [laughter] dishes, job washing making $.50 an hour. he worked seven days a week and paid his way through school and went on to start a small business and to work towards the american dream. policies -- myhe father was still washing dishes today, the odds are very high he would've lost his job because of the 1.7 trillion dollars in new taxes from this administration. because of crushing regulations that are hammering small

businesses. small businesses generate two thirds of new jobs in our economy. it is kids like my dad were the ones bearing the brunt, getting hammered by the obama economic agenda. had been lucky enough to not lose his job, the odds are overwhelming he would've had his hours forcibly reduced to 28-29 hours a week. you cannot pay her bills or theater kids or pay your way through college on 20 hours week. the reason we should support is it is foundational to opportunity. the opportunity of everyone to achieve the american dream. [applause] i think every republican should have two words tattooed on their hands. growth and opportunity. i'm so inspired by you all, i might get an eagle tattooed on

my chest. [laughter] [applause] exactly. leads to my third and final point. how do we turn this country around? empower the people. [applause] i am powerfully optimistic and hopeful because of each of you. the answers are not going to come from washington. re is nothing new under the sun. we are we are right now is early like the late 1970's. you had jimmy carter in the white house and you had the same failed economic policy. out-of-control spending and taxes and regulation. producing the exact same misery and stagnation. you had the same reckless foreign policy and the same naïveté making the world a much more dangerous place.

we sawoss this country, a grassroots movement of millions of men and women who came together and became the reagan revolution. that did not come from washington. washington despised ronald reagan. it came from the american people. the reason i am optimistic it is, i am blessed to have the opportunity serving the senate to travel across the country. at the same thing is happening all over this country. -- men andwaking up women who have never been involved in politics are looking up saying, what is happening to this country? we're losing our freedom. we're losing the future for our kids and grandkids. let's get back. let's get back to the free market principle. let's get back to the constitutional liberties that this nation was built on. [applause]

i'm spending my time, not focused on washington, not trying to convince washington of anything because they are not listening. ist i'm trying to do instead help energize and mobilize the american people. all of you who said you had cell phones before, if you are willing to come together and join a grassroots army, i would ask each of you with your cell phones to text the word "growth" to the number 33733. 33733, text the word "growth." we will not turn the country we are able to energize and mobilize millions of americans to hold washington accountable.

i don't know if your member the movie, the usual suspects. where they talk about the greatest trick the devil ever played. to convince the world he did not exist. lie that the media tries to play is to convince us that the american people don't believe in the values this country was built on. it is simply not true. democrats, ifto you listen to the media, although i repeat myself -- [laughter] [applause] they will tell you there is no hope. they will tell you we cannot turn this around. they will tell you that you can't stop obama care. they will tell you that kathleen sibelius resigning is a result

of obama care's success. true, i hope every democrat will follow her path and resign as well. [applause] you want to see the power of the grassroots? last summer and last fall, millions of americans rose up and said they don't want the disaster. we don't want the suffering that is coming from obama care. , so many millions of americans say that we elevated the debate. where are we right now as a result of your efforts? at hispresident obama is lowest approval rating is ever been in six years in office. [applause]

today, obama care is at its lowest approval rating it has ever been since the day it was signed into law. [applause] you want to know where the country is? it is often a good barometer to look at the late-night comics. said, "so,jay leno president obama tol called me ad said, if you like your job, you can keep it." [laughter] [applause] a couple of weeks later, jay went back to the same theme. ,, holidays are coming up, thanksgiving -- the first thanksgiving, the pilgrims said to the indians, if you like your land, you can keep it." [laughter] [applause]

let me tell you something. as a result of the men and women in this room and as the result of millions of men and women standing up and saying obama care is a disaster, it is not working, it is hurting millions of americans, i am convinced we are going to repeal every single word of obama care. [applause] it will not come from washington. it will come from each of you. new hampshire is the live free or die state. still, and forever. [applause]

texas, that is a sentiment we can relate to. let me tell you something that my father has said many times. "i saw freedom taken away and cuba. i will die before he let it happen again in this country." [applause] that is why we are here. that is why you are here. to keep spreading the message of freedom to your friends and family and neighbors. , together,y to say let's come together and get back to the free market principle and get back to the constitutional liberty. get back to the incredible america offers.a ♪ i am humbled and thrilled to stand with each and every one of you as we work together to bring

america and work together to restore that shining city on a hill that is the united states of america. thank you and god bless you! [applause] coming to the stage next is gordon macdonald. orden served as the chair of the campaign for legal services leadership council. a unified fundraising efforts tor three organizations provide legal service to the citizens of new hampshire. ladies and gentlemen, gordon mcdonald. >> good afternoon, everyone. living here in new hampshire, it is great honor to introduce

a good friend and someone who knows new hampshire very well. crossed it while back in hanover where we both attended dartmouth college. laura has gone on to do some truly extraordinary things. liked newhe hampshire, new hampshire never really liked her. she has lots of good friends up here and she comes up with her wonderful family a lot. she understands what about the sote is so unique and important. since her time up here, she has gone on to some really great success. -- is the most influential one of the most influential, informed, entertaining voices for the cause that we share. syndicatedtionally

talk show host. the most listen to women in america. she is the author of five new york times bestsellers. last night, you saw her as the principal substitute for bill o'reilly on fox. --e is some news, folks she's leaving here to go down to new york where, tomorrow, she is going to start as a regular contributor on abc news. isn't it great that we will see a conservative and mainstream media? [applause] conservative, a conservative as bright and articulate and entertaining as laura. next week, she's heading to iowa . please welcome back to new hampshire, my good friend, laura ingraham. [applause] >> how are you?

nice to be back in new hampshire. wow. i can't believe i lived for years in new hampshire and now i actually see the green grass. it's amazing. i went to college back in the old days. four feet of snow for the entire year. i'm not sure we had a summer in hanover. it's great to be here. all of the great folks who have made this freedom summit possible. we have governor huckabee coming up. don't you think about touching that dial. don't think about leaving this room. he has a special announcement. i have a couple of housekeeping notes i have to raise with you. i understand -- i just got an e-mail. eric holder sends his regards to all of you. we are trying to be good and do our best. after his racially charged

comments at the al sharpton event the other day in washington, he feels he has to mend some fences with conservatives. he decided he is only going to order audits for those of you with ast names starting fro -l. joe biden is going to make his rounds up here. isn't that great? i think he has a different take on the state motto. i love the feeling, live free or die. apparently biden is live free on the taxpayers dime. it is a bit of a different spin on this. i have to say, there is good news. we tend to think we are always going to hell in a handbasket. my mother used to say that. she left new hampshire.

we tend to do that as conservatives. there is some good news. i want to start with that because you guys can get negative. we have to be positive here. we just had a great speaker and ted cruz and ran paul. rand paul. out that the obama devoting andn is investing an enormous amount of , manpower and other resources to enforce the rule of law in the desert southwest. deportations, the are of the bovine variety. up fortle rounded grazing on federal land. i have a question for the blm.

don't they realize that this rancher did this to provide for his cows? he did it out of love. [laughter] [applause] i'm awful. i'm announcing, i'm jeff bush is 's the secretary. we need to show a lot more sensitivity to the ranching experience in the united states. the federal crackdown on these callous is going to do nothing except send a letter to be fed into the shadows. -- except sending a lot of beef into the shadows. i remember when carol burnett used to laugh during her routines. i'm awful. we have snipers on hillsides in

vegas. i swear one of them looked like harry reid. [laughter] of these. fired one i only had a cap then as a kid. back in the 1890's. [laughter] we have american citizens surrounded by federal agents, 200 federal agents in this ranchland. wait a second. i seem to be missing a page. [laughter] did somebody already make that joke today? i hope not. they did? not as funny as i did it. [laughter] first of all, i can do the best athletes a billy his impersonation of anyone.

the best kathleen sibelius impersonation of anyone. the website really didn't crash. temporaryperienced a brain freeze. [laughter] got firedthink she just for that one interview with the oklahoma reporter? he asked her a tough question. where is the jeopardy music? their like people who get mugshots taken and one a good mug shot. she just kept smiling. i guess we lost the connection kathleen tories t bilious. -- kathleen sibelius. face yesterday in the rose garden when she was missing a page, you might have

herght she just found out health care policy was canceled. i'm like one of these crazy people -- i think conservatives should have fun. [laughter] i am heading to iowa, by the way. you think i'm joking? a lot of reporters here today. you get to hear it first, my friends. have somovement much to look forward to. we have the wind at our backs. we have seen a lot worse than the situation we are seeing now. i would rather be a conservative today than a conservative dealing with, how are we going to win the cold war? today than ae conservative facing the nazi expansion. we are conservatives today

facing nancy pelosi. [laughter] fran grand nan. [laughter] we women a certain age are glad that botox is part of obamacare. there has been a run on in northern california. we have a lot of good news. oh, my people think, goodness, we republicans, we do not have the right leadership. believe me, i agree with a lot of that. movementhat we as a have to look at the establishment and senator cruz said some of this and we have to say, wait a second, folks, speaker john boehner, eric

cantor, kevin mccarthy. i would probably put jeb bush in that category. we do this crazy thing called win elections. we have really dynamic people and candidates. sometimes we make mistakes, sometimes we do not offer the strong candidate. most of the time in recent elections when the conservative movement got in trouble, it was not the establishment that saved the movement. it was the tea party that saved the movement. [applause] think about it. thnink about what happened -- back in 1992. everybody thought bill clinton is an amazing communicator. he is the new reagan. conservatism is out. reagan is gone. and the country is moving to the left. it was over in 1992. we had an insurgent condiment,

newt gingrich, transform politics, turn on a dime, and rejuvenated a movement, and suddenly you had bill clinton out there looking like he just lost his best friend. saying the era of big government is over. hillarycare obvious it went down in flames. and suddenly republicans took the house and the senate just a few years later. we only lost the house and the senate we started acting like democrats. i will say that you skip forward to another time where we were told by our friends in the media, love you guys -- the cameramen are always conservative. the other folks maybe not so much. 2008, we were told

that conservatism was dead. there was this headline -- it is over. r.i.p. they are looking for the next reagan and they are losing. now all these young people have turned to obama and it is over. it is done. people are hanging their heads donw. wwn. i'm canceling my subscription to conservative newspapers. then it turns out, now, tdid the establishment saved the conservative movement in 2010? wasn't this rush to embrace john mccain or lindsey graham and all of these guys. these people really rallying the country. let's get involved in another war. let's move forward in a more compassionate conservatism and government spending. that is not what happened. what happened is we saved this movement and we are in the

process of saving it again. i will say this and i minute, we do not need to sit here and wait for the establishment to cut heels of one another. -- cut deals with one another. i'm talking about democrats and republicans agreeing on too many issue. we need more bipartisanship. my goodness, we need to work together. do you know what i say? you know that old saw "once you get behind close doors." i do not want to see what they look like when their hair comes down. i am really dating myself. i was just three when that song came out. when they go behind closed doors, who suffers on the other end of that one? >> we do. >> whether it is agreement on or amnesty orn core,

fast-track trade agreements with president obama or other trade agreements with china. or maybe it is nsa. istever the issue du jeur that they agree on, the cause of freedom and our individual liberty and our bank accounts usually suffers. and i believe it is time for us to not so much worried about the establishment and the republican or democrat party does, and worry about what our own pitch to the american people will be. president george herbert walker bush, remember the thousand points of light? it was very meaningful to all of you, obviously. i'm trying to forget. it was a wonderful thing. i want to keep it simple. this was three points of right. three. newt had 10. the federal government has to get smaller. the government is too big. most people believe that today. we are winning the debate. here is my rule of thumb.

if the bill is 2000 pages, i do not care what you say, you have never read it. it is going to require thousands of pages of regulations and implementation to actually have the law supposedly do what it is supposed to do and then, of course, we have lost track of what it meant in the first place. we cannot have laws that long. there is always mich schief. if we're going to shrink the size of government, we have to shrink its reach. and set the record straight on the common core. i will not waste a lot of time on it. x revenue -- president obama says, we talk about revenue enhancement. do you love how they call it something else? i call it something that starts with an s and end with g.

it is called spending. must say no. we have to do to the federal government -- we have to say to the federal government, you have to do what we are doing. you have to get ion less every month. our paycheck is not going as far. why is our budget is always being stretched and yours never is? you live within your means and we will do the same. i will say one of the most important issues for me and some of my friends and the republican party disagree with me, like jeb 17th sovereignty. done, washington, you have a lousy job of enforcing our border and protecting our sovereignty. we have to enforce our border. we are a fee people. we are free republic. that will cease to be if our country ceases to exist.

if we just a size we can pick and choose what laws to enforce. the president about to announce more amnesty. then our whole system of law does not mean anything. when people say to you, well, laura, where is compassion? i have enormous amount of compassion. compassion first for the american worker and the american middle class. they are suffering. they are tired of it. and they want their borders and forced. -- encforced. and that means legal immigrants will do better because all of our standards of living will rise. that will be good. in the future when we enforce our borders show good faith, then we can figure out what to do with people who are still here. until that happens, we should walk away from this conversation and walk away fast. [applause] and i will say, my friends, and i will end on this, we need to take our culture seriously. i have three children. i know many of you have children and grandchildren.

and we have to have a situation where our children do not constantly have their mind poisons against all that is great about our country. and i say this all the time on the radio, but we are our kids first educators. that means we have to work through our churches, our localities, our school boards. and we have to reclaim what is benevolence am a what is honorable, and what is good. we have to hold it out to our children as an example to emulate. we have to do this in our individual lives. remember, we have to brand this. good is brandable. the left did such a good job of this. example, gay marriage. marriage equality. it will have different views and that is fine, but i have to hand it to them, right? marriage equality. he was not for a quality? there are movies and books that come out. celebrities, songs. they have scotch through the schools and all of a sudden, all

of the young people have a view on same-sex marriage. the left is good at it. they engage the culture. and you have to learn from that. whatever your issue happens to be, do not abandon it. if you abandon it, your kids will not know it. if you kids do not know it, they you might not recognize their views. we need to remember what the word conserve means. we have to conserve our military power. conserve natural resources. we have to conserve our financial resources. we have to conserve our sovereignty and we have to conserve our culture. that is a winning platform. i love all you guys. take care. thank you. [applause] mike huckabee is coming up. he has a special announcement. to not even thinking about touching that dial. watch george stephanopoulos tomorrow. >> now, ladies and gentlemen,

welcome back to the stage the state director ray moore. >> first of all, i want to thank everybody for coming here for what is the undoubtedly the political event of the year in new hampshire. this is a fantastic crowd. and just great speakers. how do people like the event so far? [applause] i want to say that if you see a epost, youa fenc know that he did not get them by himself. i want to say thank u to our staff who have worked tirelessly. our national staff. it has been yeoman's work.

expressing why freedom is so important. you. [applause] there are a lot of places across the country where they are not exactly sure what conservative valuesare, what that that really hold us together are. new hampshire is one of those places. pointed out, we only have to look as far as our license plates. because here in new hampshire we know that new hampshire values are summed up simply in four words -- live free or die. and most -- >> yeah! it is important to remember that that freedom is essential, it is important to remember all of generals statement, which is live free or die, for death is not the worst of all evils. that is truly a fundamental thing that brings us together, that brings a large group

together. that makes it so important for us to hear these new leaders and a new generation. we've heard from important people. four u.s. senators. mike lee, rand paul, ted cruz. haven't they been great? and au.s. congressman host of leaders. and we still have governor mike huckabee coming. i hope you guys stay around. there will be a fantastic presentation. there are a number of state leaders. bill o'brien. thank you again, bill, for coming o ut. i want to say thank you to you. it is not enough to hear freedom. rooksve people like dr. b you can explain why that freedom is so important. words when weinto talk to others and express to them why it is worth fighting for.

that energy needs to leave with us. i hope everybody takes that energy with them as they leave. there are a number of leaders but one of them is one who happens to have an office next to me. she really is a fantastic leader for the conservative movement. she is currently serving as the chair and the host -- a former deputy speaker. she has done an outstanding job expressing to us why it is so important to continue hold fast ofthose who have sure values living free and dying. i want to introduce representative pam tucker. thank you. [video clip] ♪ >> thank you. it is so great to see so many of you here. i want to talk to you about

what is going on the state level. i think we need to focus on what is going on in new hampshire because that affects you the most. these past two years we have really seen a change in the direction of where our state government is going. previous to that 2012 elections we were moving towards a smaller, more responsible government, one that we want. senate assuring elections were fair and honest. we were giving education opportunities for the poor through legislation. we addressed the unfunded pension and we reduce the size and scope of government through the elimination of burdensome taxes and unnecessary regulation low.elped kee our taxes in 2012 from obamacare being implemented. we put laws into place that stopped it. what we were doing was making new hampshire over for business once again. all of that changed after the 2012 election.

initiatives have been stopped or reversed and this past session. sadly, it does not stop there. there is no major initiatives put forward by our governor to make new hampshire a destination for new and growing businesses and jobs. this lack of leadership is changing new hampshire into a state that leads in other ways. i will give a couple examples. we are first in primaries. that is great we get all of the speakers here because of that. we are also the highest energy cost and the northeast. and we have seen our health care cost skyrocket by 90%. we are second-highest in the country for corporate income taxes per capita. we are third in overall corporate income taxes. we rank eighth in the 50 states for having the highest state deb iser cap would appear this behind massachusetts, connecticut, new york, new jersey, and rhode island.

this is not the company want to keep. if you add all of these things up, there is no incentive for business to consider expanding in new hampshire. you know what? i have not given up. i know we can do better and we will. and we can do it with your help. this fall we have the opportunity knocking on our door to take back our state. when we elect the right people, and we did and we will do it again, we can change the course of our state. thosel push to give workers the freedom to join a union or not. [applause] get new hampshire out of the wealth transfer programs like rggi that favor special interest so we can reduce our energy costs. are going to cut corporate income taxes to help lure businesses back to new hampshire and we can stop a collaboration with the federal government on our health care by stepping back

from obamacare. have strong candidates on the ticket now. you are saying -- we see a lot of people announcing. all the way down to a lot of people are running for dog catcher. intohis is where you come the picture. if you have ever thought about running for office before, this is the year. the tide really is in our favor. we have got the structure there to make it happen for you. it is a midterm election. it is an opportunity for you to give back and make a difference to the state. seats in new hampshire house. we have a lot of great candidates. we have been recruiting, and we have had some wonderful people, many of who are in this audience, too. but we are still looking for a few more. if you believe in the free markets and small government, and if you are going to want to make the time to fix our state, not just for you but for our children and our grandchildren, we need you to step up.

let's face it. new hampshire is the last bastion of freedom here in the northeast. look around us. we are surrounded by states that are full of regulation and income taxes. and it is not a prosperous place. this election is going to be a tipping point for us. it is up to us to make a difference of which way the direction is going to go. it may sound like a lot to run for state office, but honest to goodness, we will help you every step of the way. we are filling the seats, providing the support you need. we have had four classes to help people get ready to run to get the tools. you know what it will take to win out there. afp is going to be hosting a for all may 17 grassroots organizers of how to get out there and make things happen. i hope you can talk to greg about that and get involved. but i do know that if you step up, we can and will take back the house and we will elect a strong liberty-minded speaker

that we will to support the governor and the senate in an open new hampshire backup for business again. i am pam tucker, and we will make this happen. thank you. >> ladies and gentlemen, pam tucker. ladies and gentlemen, our next speaker really needs no introduction if you're from new hampshire. rentable conservative freedom fighter, a fourth-generation owner, a small business who like you became frustrated with the political class saying one thing and doing another. a politician who says what he means and means what he says. to bring back honesty and integrity to the political process. we know he has been there as a e specific point -- and he has led the charge against expansion of obamacare in new hampshire. these give a huge welcome and

thanks for leaving the charge against obamacare expansion, senator andy sanborn! [appluse] >> thanks to everyone. give me a moment to turn off my nsa phone. thanks so much for having me in today. first of all, let's give the huge shout out to afp, citizens united. they have done an amazing job bringing you all together. right. everyone, can you hear it? i mean, can you hear it? we open a window anywhere in the state of new hampshire or across america today, and you can hear the wave coming. that ishear this wave

going to change our future. but those of us helping to fight that fight with you need some help. and helping uslp talk to voters all across the state of new hampshire. and all across the country about the difference between republicans and democrats. we need to talk about all of the things they promised and then w3hat they delivered. the democrats said they wanted to improve the health care in new hampshire and they took it away for 24,000 people. is that your vision of health care? across america they said they wanted to increase access to health care. to 30 million people that did not have it. then they took it away from another 6 million people and gave it to a little bit. is that what you consider improving access to health care in america? >> no! >> democrats like president obama said they wanted to make

health care more affordable. right. so the wall street journal came out and said the cost for health care and small businesses in america is up 65%. as you heard pam tucker say, our costs in new hampshire are 90% more expensive. ladies and gentlemen, before obamacare, we had the second-highest cost of health insurance in the free world. we had the second-highest cost of health care insurance in the free world. >> wow. >> with support like that from liberal democrats like barack obama, don't you want to talk to your neighbor about that issue? you know, liberal democrats like obama hasson and barack told me they wanted homey with my access to helalthcare. so they took away 40% of our hospitals. access toalth care

the people who are actually paying for it. is that your vision of america? >> no. >> democrats, they say they want to keep safe so they continue to work at taking away your second amendment right to protect your family and your friends. homeu feel safer at without a second amendment? >> no. >> i need you to talk to your friends about that. democrats say they want the best education for our kids. so they want to introduce common core which would lower the standards of education for our children. do you want an educational system that dumbs down your child? >> no. >> do you want to talk to your friends about? >> yes. >> jeanne shaheen. jeanne shaheen. wow. jeanne shaheen talks about how much she supports our veterans.

any veterans in the room? can you stand up for me, please? ladies and gentlemen, our veterans. [applause] thank youegularly, for giving me the opportunity to speak my mind. i appreciate it. version ofshaheen's helping veterans as the votes that takes their support away. if you know a veteran, you need to have that conversation with them. you know as a business owner, i see the struggles our state continues to have. our economy is still stuck in the mud. and i submit to you this is something we can change. facingllenges we are in the state of the have today are legislatively controlled. that is my mom. tell her i said hi. virginiaee states like , tennessee had a great

congressman from tennessee -- wyoming, texas, northern south dakota -- north and south dakota. we see some states where the economy is growing and thriving and doing well. in new hampshire, solely as a result of legislative action, we continue to be challenged. but we can fix this. i trult believe we are on the era o of a new republican in the state and across the country. phenomenald from speaker so far talking about the values that we have. some people in the past couple years have been talking about this thing we call personal freedom. personal liberty. and the most important part -- personal responsibility. those aren't values. [applause] are not values adjust the

liberty party. those are values of the republican party. those are values of every single one of us together. us,constant believe, all of are believed in the constitution. our belief in freedom, our believe in protecting new hampshire yankee values. all of us on the stage today, every one of us is asking for your help. we are asking for your support over the next few months. we are asking for a little bit of time and a little bit of energy. let's have that conversation with the voters. let's talk about the difference between what democrats say and do and reintroduce them to those traditional yankee values that makes new hampshire great. i know that together every single one of us will make new hampshire the best place on earth to live, work and play.

ladies and gentlemen, god bless and help us in november. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, there are some people that no matter how much you have on paper, it never tells the whole story. he certainly is a great new hampshire patriot. he's a manchester activist and a former chairman of the huckabee campaign. he is the former vice chair of the republican party. and chairman of the manchester republican city committee. this next individual sits on the board of the liberty -- academy. he is our true friend, our true patriot. please rise for fcliff hurst! [applause] cliff!f, cliff, you know when i came in, i

was very upset. i walked in over there and they said you have to go to the left. [laughter] >> i said, i can't. they said why not? i said, i am a republican. of all places to come to an event like this and they ask you to go to the left. a real privilege for me to introduce my very good friend governor mike huckabee. i met governor huckabee in 2005 at the time i was serving as chairman of the manchester republican committee. our statea call from chair and she said, would you host the governor of arkansas? and so i did. and we hosted him at the center of new hampshire. and i was so impressed with them right away because he is a very warm person, very charming personality. and it was not long before i was his first supporter in new

hampshire. we had big crowds everywhere we went. sometimes we would have as many as five people. [laughter] in the beginning. but it was not always that way. long before i became a campaign -- the the chairman of his campaign. but anybody that knows mike huckabee knows that he has a great passion for music. and i want to tell a little story that will illustrate that can illustrate the kind of person that mike huckabee is. old, andas 8 years maybe a little background on his family. they were very poor. they lived in a rent house. when he was 8 he wanted a guitar for christmas. but there was not enough money. old, ande was 11 years he was a guy that never gave up, apparently. he said, if i do not get a

guitar for christmas, i do not want anything. well, something happened in the christmas that was 1966. wouldeally changed who he become and what kind of a person he would be. because under the tree was a antar from jcpenney's, amplifier and instructions. $99.ost was which was a lot for a struggling huckabee family, but it proved to be a great investment. so excited about getting the guitar that he practiced so much that his hands were raw. but by the time he was 12 years old, he was playing in a rock 'n roll band. him soic really taught

many things, because he learned preparation, discipline, teamwork, and just so many things. and because of music, he became governor of the state of arkansas. he ran for president. he has the number one program on fox news. and has a wide following through radio. but it's such a privilege to introduce them today. i'm sure you will enjoy hearing my friend, if you do not already know him, governor mike huckabee. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you, cliff. thank you all for being here today. i appreciate it. i realize i am what they call the parking lot bigger.

that means that i am the guy on the program at the end so those of you are really in a hurry to get to the parking lot are able to do so. so i am totally aware that. thank you for staying. i truly was afraid it would come to an empty room. you see i have heard me speak before and i would not stay. i will tell you now. i'm so happy you are. this has been quite a day. i left new york. taped my show, that hopefully will get out in time to watch tonight. i said, hopefully you will go watch that tonight. there you go. [applause] in addition to that, i had a real frightening thing happened today. i lost my iphone. and that is scary. how much stuff that you got on your phone? a lot. your contacts, e-mails. i panicked. then i realized exactly what i could do. i called the nsa. they told me exactly where was.

-- where it was. they were able to restore my e-mails, voicemails, everything. good to go, folks. all set. several years ago during my tenure as governor i was participating in what was an annual event, reading week. i would go to in elementary school and read to the students. and i was going to the georgia elementary school in springdale read to theing to first-graders, but before that i had a science fair to attend at the local junior high and then over to elementary school for the reading. the science fair ran late, so by the time i got to the ellen driscoll, the principal was standing at the door wringing your hands. we have been waiting. the kids are ready for you. so they grabbed me and rushed me down the hall. took me into the first-rate class. and they had it all setup up. the kids were on the floor seated filmore style.

for those of you old enough to know what that means. they were all seated. and i go and they put me in one of those first-rate -- first grade chair. they hand me the book. i thought, i do not want to walk in here and be so abrupt and not have a little time to connect with them. so i thought, let me at least warm them up a little. it was near halloween, so i said, anyone of you want to tell me what you're going to be for halloween? talk.ery kid wanted to so i call on somebody. they would answer. give me some wonderful thing about the cost of. and then somebody else. there was one little girl in the front. i noticed she was just like this. you know how there are some kids, and they're not like this. this. she was so intense. i thought, she cannot keep that energy up. so i called on everybody but her. look, i just wanted to see, could she do it?

sure enough there she never lost the intensity. i called on the all the other kids and finally, i said, yes, sweetheart. did you want to tell you something? with that kind of enthusiasm she probably wanted to say i want you to know my mother thinks you're the best governor we ever had and she voted for you. in my mind, that is what i was thinking. i later found out the little girl's name was ashley. i said, what would you like to say? as serious as she could, she said, governor, we are already late for lunch. thinking, this kid does not ear that the r governor of the state is parked in one of these little chairs. and of all those goals in the entire state, i picked hers to come read to her. no, it was wednesday, and it was corndog day at georgia elementary. and the only thing she was interested in was making sure she got to the cafeteria before

the corndog scott called. my staff made fun of me for months over that. but i've often thought about it and here's what it taught me. that little girl going to school that day did not think whole lot other than she wanted to get to the cafeteria on time so her corndog would still be warm. wish left there thinking i that every kid in america would only have to worry about the warmth of their corndog. i wish the biggest worry that kid will ever have in her life is getting to the cafeteria on time. but the harsh reality? i'm afraid that there are a lot of kids in america that will have to worry a whole lot more than about the temperature of the corndogs. if we are not careful, and i say this from the depths of my heart, the things that that little girl will worry about will be far worse than my having to worry about the duck and cover days of the early 1960's

when we thought the russians were going to come and drop a bomb on us. the fact is, we are worried today not just about what someone externally will do to us . i have never been so worried in my life about what my own government is already doing to me and doing to the little girls who are sitting in an elementary school. [applpausause] of theirle lose sight landmarks, and if you've ever tried to follow your gps and you lose the signal, you do not have a waypoint anymore. what happens? you're lost. dayse are way past the when we pulled over and asked someone for directions. and ask women pull over for directions anymore. men never have. gps does not work, we are utterly disoriented and lost, because we have lost the landmarks. we have nothing with which to navigate. m concerned about is that

we are rapidly losing the very landmarks of the liberty in this country that has been the hallmark of what we have once the mostwas important thing for a little girl like ashley and her first grade class. the land marks of our country -- pretty simple once. our founders when they declared their independence from the mother country. i want you to think about what they did. what absolutely audacious behavior was it that made them pull the muskets off their mantels and take on the strength of the most well- equipped, well-trained and well financed army in the world of his time and decide that a bunch of merchants and politicians, preachers and farmers could take musketsarmy with their that were better designed for hunting varmints than it was for challenging king george's and credit will force?

-- incredible force? but what they believed was that living their lives free, living in liberty and having their children, being able to say what they wanted to say, to think what they wanted to think, to live the way they wanted to live, where they wanted to live and to do what they wanted to do was more valuable than life itself, and they were willing to put everything on the line. everything. her own blood on the line. to be free. that's who we are! that's what this country is all about in its origins. when they broke away, they made the statement. we hold these truths to be self-evident. so obvious that we should not have to state them, but they did anyway. and thank god they did. are createdus equal and endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights,

among these life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. those landmarks, we have lost our country. and i tell you today, i am a whole lot more worried about losing the landmarks than i am about ashley getting her corndog. today, federal agents are pointing rifles and american citizens in an escalation of a standoff over a man who for 20 years has graced his cattle on some land the state owns. i'm not here to jump in on the middle of whether cliven bundy ought to pay the state or pay anybody for the chance for his cows to eat grass. here is what i suggest -- that there is something incredibly wrong when the government believes that some blades of grass that a cow is eating is thean egregious affront to government, that we would literally put a gun in a

citizens face and threatened to shoot him over it. here is what i would have to ask -- [applause] is this government more eatingted in some cows grass and nevada then they are as to why brian terry was murdered with guns that are government provided by drug dealers in mexico? can somebody help me understand that? is this government more concerned about a few hundred head of cattle grazing on some land than they are as to why for americans were murdered in benghazi and nobody answered the phone at 3:00 in the morning?

the threats and affronts to our liberty today are so incredibly sprite -- frightening. university, a speaker that was invited to receive an honorary degree, a speaker who was named by time magazine as one of the most 100 and one to people in the world for her stance against radical islam and the horrible treatment of women, including female genital noodle asia and -- g enital mutilation. you would think that they would like that. a few people complained and brandeis. they disinvited the speaker and made fools of themselves. fools of themselves. the unitedbe that in states of america the idea of freedom of speech meant that we wanted more people to come to public square to express an opinion. today, like things that we have

seen in brandeis, with the idea that -- her seat on the drop box board is being challenged because somebody does not like the fact that she had the same position on the war in iraq that hillary clinton did. pushed outmozilla of his position because he had the same position in 2008 on proposition 8 in california that hillary clinton had, that bill clinton had, that joe biden claimed to have. do we want an america in which instead of having free speech we simply have a few forms of speech that are carefully protected by the radical left, and if you do not agree with them, it is not just that they want to put their voices to be louder. they want to shut yours down. freedom of speech in this country. that for which those men grabbed those muskets off the mantle. meanver -- did not ever that we would have fewer voices.

it was not that we could not dissent, it was that we could. whether you agree with the opinions are not. -- or not. gosh, i am beginning to think there is more freedom in north korea sometimes than there is in the united states. when i go to the airport i have to get in the surrender position. people but hands all over me. and i have to provide photo i.d. in a couple of different forms and prove that i am really not going to terrorize the airplane. want to go vote, i do not need it thing. all i got to do is show up and i can give them anybody's name and that is ok. but again, the president reminded us yesterday, there is no voter fraud. i just like to show up in the white house and say i would like to look around. you have an appointment? no, and i do not have a photo id, either. i figured if i can vote without

one, i ought to be able to come in there and look around without one, too. the landmarks of our liberty ought to be protected, celebrated, and this should not be an ideological issue. who agreesot one with very many things the left foot out, but i think they ought to be able to express their opinions. it gives me a great deal more confidence and comfort in my own. when i hear there's i realize, my gosh, my sounds a whole lot better than the. i love it when they talk. . but the fact is they do not love it when we talk.they do not want us to talk . you know why? because when the lights turn on, roaches, theyhe run for cover. that's why. [applause] today our freedoms are threatened by government agencies like the criminal

enterprise formally known as the internal revenue service that operates with a heavy-handed, unbelievable power that is able to crush any citizen, any organization. the one type of entity in america where you are guilty until you prove yourself not to be guilty. basic system of jurisprudence which says you are innocent until somebody else with the burden of proof proves beyond a reasonable doubt that you're guilty. one of the reasons i'm such a strong supporter of the fair tax is because once and for all it would rid us of the irs and it would make it that the irs and the entire federal government would have nothing to do with what i earn. they would not know. and it is none of their business. only when i spend the money should they be able to get anything from it. not when i earn it. they should not be penalizing productivity.

our founders would be shocked if they came back today to see what has happened, because they never intended the federal government would get very big. they were so intent on that. that they wrote amendments to the constitution just to make sure we got it right. and every one of the bill of it diddid one thing -- nothing, not one thing at all prohibit what a citizen can do. in every one of the bill of rights, is limited what the government could give. do.ould today, we as citizens are being curtailed by the bill of rights, told we cannot do when that was never the intent. the bill of rights tells the government what is restrictions are. if there was any doubt about it, the 10th amendment was written to say if it is not expressly written in the constitution than it is none of the business of the federal government. it is the job of the states, the role of states and the right of the states and the federal government should not keep their

hands -- should keep their hands off it. if it is the one thing that could bring the government-backed is moving the power back to the states and counties and cities. we have far more federal government that we were ever expected or ever believed to have needed. and the cost is staggering. f debt.illion od because we are paying enormous amounts of money that it is not the federal government's job to do in the first place here this is why devolving power makes much sense. and speaking of power, let's be very clear. one of the things we're going to have to correct with young people growing up and frankly with a whole lot of adults who passedt -- must not have civics, in this country we have three branches of government and all of them are equal to each other. the executive, the legislati v

ve, and the judicial. where in our constitution did we get the notion that the judicial branch is somehow superior to branches two when two are government are stronger than any one of the other, and all of the branches are equal and if there is a week one according to people like jefferson, they said it would've been the judicial branch because it was the one not elected, not able to be reined in? robedidea that nine black- justices are the ultimate authority in america is not a truly constitutional american thought. [applause] justices ared the not the final authority. folks, let's are from base in american history. history. american the final authority is the

people of america. the authority and the power of america ultimately lies with we, the people, not the executive, legislative, or the judicial branch. and th tyranny of judiciary supremacye is something that must be challenged or else we will lose this country because we will be governed not by our elected representatives, not by an elected president and the executive branch, but by unelected, rogue justices who believe that somehow they have more power than all the people and that those who they sent to actually represent them and lead them. when i was running for president in 2008, one of the people that i met was here in manchester. not far from where we are. it was at a machine shop. as i went there i was making talk in toward the machine shop. when it was all over, i will never forget a gentleman who came up to me, he worked at the shop. he said, governor, can i talk to

you? of course. ask you a i need to question. i do not understand. my daughter is in grad school at cornell. grad school is $50,000 a year for her. my immediate reaction was, thank you god that my daughter does not want to go to grad school at cornell, for a lot of reasons. "i i wanted her to get a better education than i ever had. i wanted to do better." which is the dream of every american. took theid, so i second shift. i am working two shifts, 16 hours a day. and i figured if i work twice as hard, work twice as many hours, i will make twice as many-- as much money. the first time i got my paycheck, it was barely a little bit more than the one shift. i cannot understand. then i found a because i was working that many more hours in making that money i went into a new tax bracket. and the government was taking

most of what i was making in the second shift. and he said, can you explain that to me? i said, yes, sir, i can. i said, you have got a government that forgot that it's s job is to serve you, not to have you serve it. and sir -- [applause] truth is, the way we have so screwed this country up, if you would like to get your daughter some help, here's what you can do. instead of going and working two shifts, quit both of them. pop popcornch espn, and enjoy some snacks. then your daughter will qualify for all kinds of subsidies and assistance from all the rest of us, and she will be able to go for close to free. any looked at me and said, that does not make any sense. and i said, no, sir. it does not. that is why hope you will go outke -- and vote and vote

the idiots who would come up with policy like that. thank you very much. god bless you. [applause] now, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the stage -- fun today?guys have wow. what a great day. anyone look at the time? told you we would be done at 4:00. what time is it? five of. we are going to make it. let me just start and thank everybody, all of our staff and americans for prosperity as well as the team at citizens united. i want to thank all of the

speakers we had today. and thank everyone in the audience for taking the time out on saturday. as bob hope once said, i like to go to washington, d.c. it gives me a chance to visit my money. true.ntiment is funny but too often we forget that it is our money, but it is not our money. it is their money. their money. y.e next-generation's mone need to understand that everything we do affects them more than it does us. today, andeave here have opportunities in front of you to meet with candidates for elective office at every level. you to think of your children and grandchildren and nascar officials the top decisions -- ask our officials the top decisions. in this business, people lie.

i know you will not believe it but it is true. i will ask you to hold people accountable. not personally but at the ballot box. i want to thank you all for being here. i hope you had a great time. i will turn it over to dave to close us out. thank you. >> thank you very much. i want to thank each and every one of you for coming and spending the day with us. this was a beautiful new hampshire day for all of you to be indoors. but itthis was a treat, is an expensive one because it is a beautiful day. it means a lot to us. this was a big event put on. and i would just ask each of you to give a round of applause to the entire staff of afp and at citizens united who put this event on. [applause] and so i'm just going to close

it out. i want to thank. i have my eight-year-old and 10-year-old, lilly and griffin. corey hit it on the head. that is why we do these things. we do it not for ourselves, but we do it for the next generation and the one after that. and that is why we are all here today. that is why ted cruz, rand paul, mike lee, newt gingrich, the entire lineup of phenomenal speakers that were here today spent the day with us. want to saythat, i thank you to everyone here. and good night. [applause] [laughter] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014]

>> mike huckabee wrapping up the freedom summit in new hampshire. if you missed any of this, we will have it in primetime 8:00 p.m. eastern tonight. you can watch it on c-span. viewers are posting on facebook and twitter about who should be the republican nominee for president in 2016. michael's vote is for rand paul, the only one that protect your privacy and civil rights. and janet choice would be colin powell. she writes, he is the only gop person who makes sense.

you can leave your thoughts at facebook.com/c-span or on twitter using hastag c-span chat. tomorrow on "washington journal," we will hear more about the speakers at the freedom summit and public opinion going to the elections this fall with democratic and republican strategist stefan han kellyanne conway. then we will talk about the latest of elements and ukraine. and then a senior correspondent with government executive magazine will talk about raises for government staff members and benefits. all of that tomorrow on "washington journal starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern >> there is no question that andress routinely administrations routinely do not speak the truth to the american public. and it is not just about in accuracies in terms of the affordable health care act. it's the absence of speaking the

truth about where we are. where are we? a standard of living the same as what we had in 1988. unfundeave per family, that needs to be spoken so that for theuild the contact tough things that are going to come. the biggest problem with congress is the den -- denial of reality. you can still be a good person and deny reality. we all have flaws and deny realities in some sense in our lives every day because we do not want to face them. the fact is we have not had the leadership in this country in a long time to stand up and tell the truth to the american public about the situation we find ourselves in. you can