kandahar. okay? where doesn't matter. that when they come home to ohio, they want to get a c.d.l. to drive a truck from columbus to cleveland we don't make them make any test. we give them their license. they're already qualified. thi served in the military. we're not screwing around. here it is. you do what you want. if you're e.m.t. you go to work in the fire department. what, give you tests? you were e.m.t. in the military and we're going to put you through some rigmarole? forget it. we're also saying if you have skills we'll give you credit in college and the community college that acruise to your veteran for free. that is the least we should do to our -- for our veterans. i will tell you this. [applause] let me tell you, sir, there should never be a homeless or unemployed combat veteran in the united states of america. it just shouldn't be. [applause]

now, here's what happens. here's what happens in politics. so i say all that, right? and then all of a sudden i have 25 people telling me why we can't do it. you know what the key is in politics? you put a plan together and you carry it out. and everybody is squawking and complaining and this group jumps up and that group jumps up and they try to block you. you know at the end you don't let anybody block you. you just go do it. and you get it done. i'll tell you an interesting story. when i became governor the state was a disaster. and i had a meeting. i was invited to speak to all the lobbyists, all the special interest groups in ohio. so i showed up. i said, folks, i just got elected governor as you know and this state is in big trouble. we've lost 350,000 jobs. our operating budget is 20% in the hole. i'm going to need your cooperation. big changes are coming to ohio. we knew exactly what we wanted to do. we weren't going to raise

taxes. we were going to cut taxes. people said, well that's just crazy. you can't do it. i said just watch. so they were all in the room and i said i want to give you a little bit of advice. i'm going to sketch out a little bit of what i need. i'm going to be driving a bus and i expect you to get on the bus because if you don't get on the bus i'm going to run over you with my bus. it created so much consternation in the state they thought i was talking to the people but i was talking to the special interests because they are the very ones that block you because they are preservers of the status quo. we can't have the status quo in america any longer. just shake it up. okay? [applause] >> how about somebody on this -- way in the back, ma'am. right here. this lady right here. sir, do not fall out that window or we'll never forgive ourselves. okay? and that would be a real pain, wouldn't it?

all right. not working with the jokes. okay. go ahead. >> okay. governor, i've heard you make the statement with respect to marriage equality that the court has spoken and you respect that. so in looking at citizens united and the issues raised by that decision, how do you tackle that and what do you say to issues of campaign finance? >> well, i don't like the idea that billionaires pick who is going to be president of the united states. i think we need an overhaul of our whole campaign finance system. okay? [applause] you know what? i really would like if we could figure out how we could limit the amount and just force the ability to attract a whole lot of smaller contributions. i don't know what the limit ought to be but i will tell you that in my sense, we've got to

have a reasonable plan that when we put it in we don't turn around a year later and say that's a lousy plan. that's what happened on these other campaign finance reforms. it wouldn't be my number one issue. my number one issue is this issue of jobs. and to that end i would have a plan to freeze all federal regulations for one year except for health and safety, force the congress to vote on anything over a hundred million dollars. i would have the vice president, he or she would be unwinding all these rules that are crippling small businesses' ability to create jobs. i would lower corporate tax rate to 25% and not double tax corporations so they bring their money home from europe and invest in america rather than in europe. i'd allow them to write off the cost of investment and plant equipment in a single year so they will invest and we'll have tools to have wage growth. i would reduce the personal tax of 28%, 25% and 15% with a 15% capital gains rate, a

simplified tax system, and have a plan that would get us fiscal responsibility and we would ship welfare, education, medicaid, transportation, and job training back to the states. and then i would have to fly around and meet with all of our friends in europe so they know we have their back. we will have a plan to fix social security, another plan to fix the border and get people on a path to legalization and get this behind us once and for all. that i would do within the first hundred days. okay? [applause] but i would tell you that this issue, frankly, what should be eliminated in every state in america is the issue of gerrymandering. because what happens is people run and they get in safe districts and they're worried on the extremes. so they move to the extremes. that's a very bad thing. but at the end of the day, what works in this country is when you have leaders. not just in our country but in

any country around the world. you know, when margaret thatcher was the last man anding in europe, she did an incredible job of leading. i mean, we're all struck by winston churchill. never, never, never give in. reagan said that the sun was going to come up and it did and many people who were democrats voted for him on the hope that he could bring america back in the morning and not be into the sunset. i mean, leaders can do this. because if you make laws to try to get people to do what they're supposed to do, you're going to always fall short. we need laws. we need reasonable proposals to get these things working. but at the end, it's leadership. it's not rules. it's not laws. it's leadership. and leadership gets people to perform at a higher level. talking about the patriots earlier, i think bill belichick could get 11 of us here and get us to go to the super bowl. [laughter] >> it's just the way it works.

[applause] that's what leadership does. thank you. all right. right here, sir. right here. let me give you a microphone. is anybody working the microphones? if they are you're going to lose your high pay. [laughter] what are you getting paid? a bottle of water for this? yeah. volunteer. okay. >> mine is not really a question, just a statement. i'm 72 years old. three weeks ago i was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. >> put that microphone up so people can hear you, sir. >> it makes me stop and think about my children, my grandchildren, and i don't need a hug but i need a win because i think there is nobody better in this country to lead us. [applause] > wow.

how about a hug? come on. how about a hug? all right. come on. how about a hug? there we go. god bless you. you're going to be okay. you know that. you know, the greatest thing about this campaign is it's changed my life. and you might say how? i have learned to slow down and to listen to people. you know, in this fast paced world we move so fast, i go back to my dad, who knew everything going on in the neighborhood. and was there to help. and i want to just tell you something about this, i think the spirit of this country or back to the pilgrims for a second. you know, the pilgrims didn't like call anywhere to find out

what to do. en i was a kid, our hero was roberto clemente. he was a baseball player, and he was a great one. we admired him so much. and here, right, it's bobby orr or i'll give you another one that i love, larry bird. but here, here's one. is that la check -- what you thought i'd say? he was mr. hustle. when i look at boston or plymouth or massachusetts, you know what i see? i see community. family. you see, folks, we can elect a leader at the high level, a president, but you don't think the president is going to come riding in here on some big horse to solve all the problems. you got a problem with drugs here. okay? who you think is going to solve

that? no, you're going to solve it if you want to. if you really want to solve this problem and you really want to dig in, you will not let these kids turn to drugs. you will have some you will lose but most of the time you will win. when kids understand that they have a purpose in life, a god combinch purpose in life, and if they do drugs and they handicap themselves, they cannot live their life. they cannot carry out their purpose. we need to be in the schools. we need to be in the boys -- in a girls club, in a ymca, and in the churches, and in the synagogues. and we got to beat the curse of drugs. and i'll give you the money but that's not what's going to do it at the end. it's people deciding we've had enough of this curse. you want to know about income inequality? give your kids the skills they need to compete in this century. and that's at the school board level. nothing's holding you back from

taking on the problems of the schools. you want to talk about the problem of welfare? get the businesses and the welfare office and tell the people to get relief. you're going to get trained for one of these jobs. and we're going to hold you accountable. because my mother was right. it's a sin not to help somebody who needs help but we can't keep helping people who need to learn how to help themselves. we have to impose some personal responsibility. [applause] and one more thing. well, a couple more things. i'll tell you what it is. if you're a family, it's the nurse. right, sweetie? your mother was sick, it's the nurse. it's really not the doctor. it's the nurse that has that -- comes in and settles the family own. it's the doctor, dr. dave here, emergency room doctor. you call people when you're so dead tired, you don't go to

bed. you make one more phone call. or it's the teacher that gave up an awful lot of money to try to change somebody's life. i happen to have a belief that these things get recorded in the book of life. there is a book of life. our lives are recorded. i want to tell you one last one. this is the woman who was married for 52 years to her husband. he died. you call her on monday and you say, this saturday we're going out to dinner. my husband and i are going to take you out to dinner. thursday she goes to the hair dresser. saturday she puts on a dress. that she hadn't worn in six months. does that change a life? did that change the world? it does. and that's our job. so the spirit of our country

rests in where we are. look. i'll take care of all the other things. you take care of the spirit in plymouth. i'll come back. we'll have a meeting right in this hall and we'll celebrate the rebirth of the spirit of the united states of america. okay? [applause] right there, ma'am. you. >> hi. i'm a teacher. thanks for coming by the way. i'm a teacher, and i have for a long time been on the fence about the common core. i'm wondering if you become president, what your thoughts on the common core would be. >> i want to ship all of the federal education programs back to the state. there are 104. [applause] want to put them in -- but, massachusetts, there is a guy who is here. i don't know where he is, where he lives. i think he is still here. his name is david driscoll. you know that name? that's your boss? [laughter] well, i'll tell you who he is.

he's the guy that said we're not going to tolerate low standards for our kids. it shook everybody up. am i right? and people were like instead of getting a's they were getting c's. boy, i tell you what. as much as we love plymouth we really, really want to live in lake woe bee gone where everyone is handsome, everybody is pretty. everybody is going to be an astronaut or a doctor or a billionaire. but we don't live in lake wobegone. we live in plymouth. and we live in massachusetts. we live in ohio. andris coal, he took the school's whole system on and he raised the standards in this state and became an inspiration for me as governor of ohio. so look. i don't know about all this common core and what it says on the internet. here's what it is to me and what we do in ohio and what we ought to do across the country. high standards, local control. the school board is where it happens. now let me just say a couple things. i think you probably have most of this done.

you need a third grade reading -- you can't promote kids who can't read because that is the first reason they drop out of school. number two we need mentoring programs in all of our schools and we need to mentor the kids who are poor and the kids who are middle and the kids who are rich. when i was a boy these two barbers would come out of their barber shop when i'd walk by and they'd yell, johnny, some day you're going to be something! i remember it like it was yesterday. and the fact is, telling kids what they can do and what they can be, it changes lives. and we need to do it in all of our schools with all of our kids. you have nothing you're doing? you're retired or whatever and you don't know what to do with yourself? call the school and go in and mentor. hopefully they'll say you can come in. maybe i think the other thing is we need to start teaching kids at a very early age about occupations. what is a fireman do.

what does a policeman thing. what is the teacher do. what is a scientist do. we need to start getting them to think about what they might do and then we need to feed that as they get older and give them a real world experience. my daughter loves fashion. i want her to be able to go two or three or four hours a week right into working with someone who is in fission. inhave a limited outlet columbus. let her go out there and see what it is like. then she will see why reading, writing, arithmetic, and computing matters. if we think we have somebody dropping out, then we are in a position where somebody has to create a separate curriculum. every kid has to get a diploma. they don't have to go to college, but we can't let them quit. we know what happens when they quit. everybody does not have to go to college. in fact, most plumbers make more than most lawyers.