tv Primary Election Speeches CSPAN March 16, 2016 2:00am-4:01am EDT
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bernie sanders: thank you, thank you all very much for being here this evening. let me thank gilbert romero. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: let me thank katherine figuero bueno, a young woman who saw her parents arrested on television. and what this campaign is about is making sure those types of things never happen again! [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: i want to thank mcconna and jose miranda.
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excites me so much as i go around the country is to see the incredible energy of hundreds of thousands of people who love this country but know that we can do so much better. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: we started this campaign at 3% in the national polls. we have come a long way in 10 months. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: and the reason we have done as well as we have, the reason we have defied all expectations is that we are doing something very radical in american politics. we are telling the truth! [cheers and applause]
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bernie sanders: and the truth is not always pleasant. it is not always what we want to hear. but we cannot go forward unless we deal with the reality of american society today. and that is what we are going to do! [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: truth number one is that today we have a corrupt campaign finance system. [crowd booing]
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bernie sanders: with wall street and billionaires spending unlimited sums of money which is undermining american democracy. to my mind, democracy is not complicated. it is one person, one vote. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: you want to vote for me? great. if you don't, that is ok. but what i don't want to see is billionaires spending unlimited sums of money buying elections and undermining the democracy which made our country so great. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: and that is why
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together we are going to overturn this disastrous citizens united supreme court decision. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: and that is why we are going to move to public funding of elections. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: and that is why we are going to take on, vigorously, those cowardly republican governors trying to suppress the vote. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: and i say to those cowardly republican governors, if you are afraid of a free and fair election, get out of politics. get another job! [cheers and applause]
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[crowd chanting "bernie"] bernie sanders: when in our country today we had the koch brothers and a handful of other billionaires -- [crowd booing] bernie sanders: -- spending hundreds of billions of dollars to elect candidates who represent the wealthy and powerful, that is not democracy. that is oligarchy! [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: and the people of our country will not tolerate oligarchy! [cheers and applause]
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bernie sanders: but it is not just a corrupt campaign finance system. it is a rigged economy, an economy in which we have today a grotesque level of income and wealth inequality which is unsustainable and un-american! [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: now, the congress may not talk about it much. the media may not talk about it much, but it is unacceptable to me and the american people when the top .1% now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%. [crowd booing]
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bernie sanders: it is unacceptable to me that the wealthiest 20 people own more wealth than the bottom half of america, 150 million people. [crowd booing] bernie sanders: i want to give you one idea, one example, of what a rigged economy is about. turns out the wealthiest family in this country is the walton family of walmart. [crowd booing] bernie sanders: turns out the wealthiest family in america who owns walmart pay their workers wages that are so low that many of those workers have to go on medicaid and food stamps in order to survive. and what a rigged economy is about is that the middle class
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taxpayer pays more in taxes to subsidize the employees of the wealthiest family in america! that is a rigged economy! so i say to the walton family, the wealthiest family in america, get off of welfare, pay your workers a living wage! [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: the united states of america today is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. but almost nobody knows that. and the reason for that is we have people working two or three
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jobs. mom is working, dad is working, the kids are working. marriages are stressed out. parents don't have time to spend with their kids. and despite all of that, 58% of all new income generated goes to the top 1%. [crowd booing] bernie sanders: you know what we are going to do together? we are going to create an economy that works for all of us, not just the 1%! [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting "bernie"] bernie sanders: and we are going to tell the billionaires and corporate america that they are going to have to start paying their fair share of taxes.
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[cheers and applause] bernie sanders: and when we talk about a rigged economy, we are going to end the absurdity of millions of our people working for $8 or $9 and hour because you cannot make it on $8 or $9. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: that is why we are going to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, $15 an hour! [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: and when we talk about a rigged economy, we are
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going to end the absurdity of women making $.79 on the dollar for the men. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: and i know that every man in this room will stand with the women in the fight for pay equality. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: a few weeks ago, i was in flint, michigan. and what i observed there and what i heard there was literally beyond my comprehension, and it shook me and upset me enormously. what i observed there is that
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children in that city were being poisoned by a water system that had very heavy amounts of lead in it. [crowd booing] bernie sanders: it is incomprehensible that this is happening in the united states in the year 2016. but it is not just flint. all across this country, our infrastructure, our water systems, our wastewater plants, our bridges, our roads, our rail system, is falling apart. in the united states of america, we should have a first-class infrastructure. and that is what we are going to build! [cheers and applause]
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bernie sanders: we are going to put $1 trillion into building our infrastructure. when we do that, we create 13 million decent paying jobs. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: this campaign is about asking the american people to think outside of the box, outside of the status quo. think about a nation not where our children are being poisoned by lead in the water but where we have a cutting-edge infrastructure in roads, bridges, rail, and air transport. that is where we have got to go! [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: and this campaign in terms of the rigged
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economy is telling corporate america we are going to end these disastrous trade policies which are destroying the middle class in this country. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: no, you cannot continue to shut down plants in america and move to cheap labor countries all over the world. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: all of us want to help poor people throughout the world. we can do it without destroying the american middle class through disastrous trade policies. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: so i say to corporate america, you want us to buy your products? start manufacturing those
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products here in america, not in china! [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: this campaign is about fixing a broken criminal justice system. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: once again i ask you, think outside the box, outside of the status quo. america should not have more people in jail than any other country on earth. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: we should not be spending $80 billion a year locking up 2.2 million
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americans, disproportionately african american, latino, and native american. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: all over this country, we see very high rates of youth unemployment. the white kids, 33%. latino kids, 36%. african american kids, 51%. what we will do is create jobs country, we see very high rates and education for those young people -- [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: -- and not more jails and incarceration! [cheers and applause]
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bernie sanders: i want to tell you a brief story, a brief story about what i mean when i talk about a rigged economy, a corrupt campaign finance system, and a broken criminal justice system. i want you to hear this. last month, goldman sachs, one of the large -- [crowd booing] bernie sanders: you know goldman sachs, ok. last month, goldman sachs paid the federal government a settlement fine of $5 billion. they paid that fine because they were selling worthless packages
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of subprime mortgage loans. paid a $5 billion fine. now all of you know that eight years ago, this country was plunged into the worst economic downturn since the great depression. as a result of wall street greed and illegal behavior, we lost millions of jobs. people lost their life savings. people lost their homes. that took place because of the greed and illegal behavior on wall street. today, this is the broken criminal justice system. today, some person in arizona or vermont gets picked up with a small amount of marijuana. that person has a police record for the rest of their life. [crowd booing]
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bernie sanders: but if you are a c.e.o. or an executive on wall street whose illegal behavior destroyed the economy, you get a salary increase -- not a police record. [crowd booing] bernie sanders: what we have got to do, it is not going to be easy but we will do it. we are going to restore justice to a broken criminal justice system. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: what america is supposed to be about is justice, equal justice under the law. your poor, you break the law, you are rich, you break the law. you both pay the price. that is what we are going to do. [cheers and applause]
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bernie sanders: this campaign is doing well because we are listening to the american people and not just wealthy campaign contributors. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: i am very proud that our campaign does not have a super pac. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: we have received over 5 million individual campaign contributions. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: anyone know what the average contribution is? that is right.
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$27. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: my opponent raises money in a slightly different way. [crowd booing] bernie sanders: she has a super pac, which among other special interests, has received $15 million from wall street. [crowd booing] bernie sanders: she has received money from the drug companies and the fossil fuel industry. [crowd booing] bernie sanders: she has given speeches on wall street for $225,000 a pop. now to my mind, if you are going to give a speech for $225,000,
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it must be a really great speech! [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: and if it is such a great speech, all of america should be able to read it. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: our campaign is listening to senior citizens and disabled veterans. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: and here is a principle, a bedrock principle of my campaign. and that is we will be judged as a nation not by how many millionaires and billionaires we have, but by how we treat the weakest and most vulnerable among us.
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[cheers and applause] bernie sanders: while we have seen in recent years a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires, we have millions of seniors and disabled vets trying to make it on $11,000 or $12,000 a year, social security. you know what? nobody can make it on $11,000 or $12,000 a year social security. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: my republican colleagues in the senate, they want to cut social security. [crowd booing] bernie sanders: and they want to give huge tax breaks to billionaires.
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[crowd booing] bernie sanders: well, i have some bad news for them. no, we are not going to cut social security. we are going to increase social security! [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: no, we are not going to give tax breaks to donald trump and the other billionaires. in fact, they are going to start paying their fair share of taxes. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: this campaign is listening to the latino
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community. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: and what the latino community is telling me is they are tired of living in the shadows. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: they are tired of living in fear and being exploited. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: they want, i want, comprehensive immigration reform. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: and a path toward citizenship. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting "bernie"]
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bernie sanders: when my father came to the united states from poland at the age of 17, i know a little bit about the immigrant experience. and let me just say this. we have 11 million undocumented people in this country. if the congress does not do its job, i will use the executive powers of the presidency. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: i do not want to see people like catherine look
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at the television and see their parents arrested. i do not want to see families broken up, the function of immigration reform is to unite families, not divide them. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: let me say this. i know that in our country, not everybody agrees with my views on immigration reform. we are a democracy. people have different points of view. what is not acceptable manner what your point of view is is to throw racist attacks against mexicans -- [cheers and applause]
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bernie sanders: the reason donald trump won't be elected president is the american people will not accept insults to mexicans, muslims, or women. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: the american people will not accept a president who insults our veterans. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: or who several years ago led the so-called birther effort which was an ugly, ugly attempt to undermine
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the legitimacy of the presidency of barack obama. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: and now, you can agree with the president, you can disagree, that is democracy but do not tell me he is not the legitimate president of this country. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: and when we talk about racism in america, and i always find it interesting, president obama's father was born in kenya. my father was born in poland but nobody asked me for my birth certificate. [cheers and applause]
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bernie sanders: and i think it has to do with the fact that my skin color is little bit different than the president. i am a member of the senate committee on the environment. i have talked to scientists all of the world. climate change is real. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: it is caused by human activity, and let me tell you what the scientists are telling us. and that is if we do not get our
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act together in the very near future, we are not going to leave a planet for our kids and grandchildren which is healthy and that is unacceptable. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: it is literally beyond belief that we have a major political party, the republican party which rejects science, refuses to acknowledge even the reality of climate change. but together, we are going to take on a fossil fuel industry, transform our energy.
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we can create millions of good paying jobs by moving to energy efficiency and sustainable energy. my republican colleagues run all over the country talking about family values. i want you to know what they mean by family values. what they mean is no woman in this room has the right to control her own body. i disagree. what they mean by family values is that our gay brothers and sisters do not have the right to marry. i disagree. jane and i have been married for
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27 years. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: and we believe in family. but when we talk about family values, what we mean is ending the embarrassment of the united states being the only major country on earth not to provide paid family and medical leave. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: today in america, a woman in the state of arizona or my state of vermont is giving birth. if she is a working-class woman or a lower income women, in all likelihood, she will have to go back to work in one week or two weeks, separating herself from
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her baby in order to earn income to take care of her family. no mother should have to be separated from her baby because she lacks necessary income. and that is why, together, we are going to pass three months paid family and medical leave. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: one of the important jobs of a president of the united states is to conduct sane, effective foreign policy.
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on the most important foreign-policy of our time. the war in iraq. i listened very closely to what president bush and cheney had to say. and i did not believe them and voted against that war. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: unfortunately, secretary clinton voted for that war. and let me make this pledge to you. yes, we will destroy isis, but we will do it in a way that does not involve our men and women in the military's involvement.
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[cheers and applause] bernie sanders: our men and women in the military will not be involved in perpetual warfare in the middle east. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: now, i have been criticized for saying this, so let me say it again. i believe that human beings are entitled to certain inalienable rights. and we have a constitution that grants us and it is a great document, a lot of political rights. but i believe we have got to go further than that.
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i believe that we have got to guarantee our people economic rights. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: because i remember the great leader, dr. martin luther king, jr. when he led the great march on washington in 1963, it was called the march for jobs and freedom. jobs and freedom. and when he died, your number when he died, when he was assassinated, it was not at a civil rights demonstration. he was standing up with exploited sanitation workers in memphis, tennessee.
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and he understood and i agree not to be truly free, you need economic security as well. now, it turns out that every major country on earth, germany, united kingdom, france, holland, scandinavia, canada, every major country guarantees health care to all of its people. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: if elected president, i will do my best to have the united states join the rest of the industrialized world, health care for all.
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now, what this campaign is about again is thinking out side of the status quo. you do not have to accept the status quo. we can do better. do not let people tell you that you cannot think big. now, i am a member of the committee that helped write the affordable care act. it has done a lot of good things. we should be proud of that and proud of president obama's leadership on that. [applause]
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bernie sanders: but we still have 29 million americans uninsured. many of you are underinsured with large copayments and deductibles. and all of us are getting ripped off without mercy by the greed of the pharmaceutical industry. they are charging us by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. people are dying. people are dying in this country because they cannot afford the medicine they need. that is unacceptable. and after all of that, after all of that, we ended spending far more per capita on health care than any other people. that is why together, we must
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fight to make sure that we pass a medicare for all health care system. now, i do not understand why if canada can do it, the u.k. can do it, france can do it, all these other countries can do it, we can do it. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: and i do want to give you another example. software as a nation we have got to think outside of the box. for 100 plus years, we have had free public education in this country from first grade to 12th grade. the world has changed.
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the economy has changed. people today need more education. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: the simple truth is that today in many respects, a college degree is the equal length of what a high school degree was 50 years ago. and that is why i believe we have got to make public colleges and universities tuition-free.
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this is not a radical idea. it exists in germany, scandinavia, other countries. if they can do it, we can do it. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: and the other related issue we have got to do with is the outrageous level of student debt in this country. when you think about -- we tell young people you have to go out and get the best education you can for yourselves, for the country, and yet, millions of our people are $30,000, $50,000 in debt because they got an education. that is crazy.
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now, i find it interesting that when wall street with their greed and illegal behavior crashed, congress bailed them out. now, i believe we should impose a tax on wall street speculation and use that revenue to make public colleges and universities tuition free. everybody here understands what important historical fact, and that is change, real change never takes place from the top
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on down. it always takes place from the grassroots on up. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting] bernie sanders: workers 100 plus years ago said they would not be treated like animals and they struggled and went to jail and were beaten up unionsin order to form and get collective bargaining. that's how we fight for workers rights. [applause]
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bernie sanders: for hundreds of years, african americans and their white allies struggled together to end racism and bigotry and segregation in america. [applause] bernie sanders: those changes did not take place from the top on down. it was blacks and whites standing together and saying, we will not accept racism in the united states of america. [applause] bernie sanders: people forget but 100 years ago, women in america did not have the right to vote.
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could not get the education they wanted. could not do the jobs they wanted. but what happened is people looked around them and they said, hey, in america, we will not accept women being treated as second-class citizens. it is going to change. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: if we were here seven years ago, 10 years ago, and somebody said, you know what, i think gay marriage will be legal in every state in this country by 2015. nobody would have believed it, but it happened, and it happened
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because the gay community and their straight allies said that in america, people have the right to love whoever they want. [applause] bernie sanders: if we were in this room five years ago, and somebody jumped up and said, you know, bernie, i think this $7.25 minimum wage is a starvation wage, we have got to raise it to $15 an hour, the person next to them would say you're nuts, you want to double the minimum wage, that is crazy. can't happen. you know what happened, fast food workers at mcdonald's and burger king when out on strike -- went out on strike. they stood up and fought back and then, you know what
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happened? seattle, $15 an hour. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: san francisco, los angeles, $15 an hour. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: oregon, $15 an hour. and that $15 in our movement is sweeping the country. but here's my point. the most important point. do not settle for the status quo when the status quo is broken. [applause] bernie sanders: don't tell me
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that we cannot have a political system in which we have one of the highest voter turnout rates in the world. do not tell me that we have to have the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world when we have a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires. we can change that. do not tell me that veterans in this country have to sleep out on the street. we can change that. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: don't tell me that in america we have to be the only major country that does
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not guarantee health care or paid family leave to all of our people. [applause] we can make real change. bernie sanders: but we don't make change if they divide us up. what trump is about and other demagogues have always been about is scapegoating minorities, turning one group against another group. but we are too smart to fall for that. [applause]
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bernie sanders: so if we stand together as black and white and latino and asian and native american as gay and straight, men and women, if we stand together as people born in america, people who came to this country, if we stand together, there is nothing we cannot accomplish. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting "bernie!"]
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bernie sanders: next week, arizona has a very important election. we will win. [cheers and applause] bernie sanders: we will win of the voter turnout is high. let's make it high. thank you all very much. [cheers and applause] ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ ♪ there's a star man waiting in the sky he like to come and meet us but he thinks he'd blow our minds. he's told us not to blow it. let the children lose it. let the children use it let all the children boogie ♪
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there's a star man waiting in the sky he's told us not to blow it. cause he knows it's all worthwhile. he told me let the children lose it. let the children use it let all the children boogie ♪ ♪ there's a star man waiting in the sky he like to come and meet us but he thinks he'd blow our minds. there's a star man waiting in the sky he told us not to blow it because he knows it's all worthwhile. he told me let the children lose it. let the children use it let all the children boogie ♪ ♪
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>> hillary clinton spoke to supporters in palm beach, florida after winning that primary. mrs. clinton was the winner in ohio, and north carolina. her remarks are 15 minutes. hillary clinton: thank you. thank you so much. [cheers and applause] hillary clinton: thank you so very much. i tell you, this is another super tuesday for our campaign. thank you, florida, thank you, north carolina, thank you, ohio.
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you know, although we are waiting for final results in illinois and missouri, we know we will add to our delegates lead to roughly 300 with over 2 million more votes. [applause] hillary clinton: we are moving closer to securing the democratic party nomination and winning this election in november. [cheers and applause] hillary clinton: you know, because of all of you and our supporters across the country, our campaign has earned more votes than any other candidate, democrat or republican. [cheers and applause]
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hillary clinton: and i want to congratulate senator sanders for the vigorous campaign he has been waging. [applause] hillary clinton: now, today, all of you in the states were contests were held bothe to break down the barriers that hold us all back, so everyone of us can share in the promise of america. you voted for our tomorrow to be better than our yesterday. tomorrow where all of us do our part and everyone has a chance to live up to his or her god-given potential. [cheers and applause] hillary clinton: because that is how america can live up to its potential, too. now we need you to keep working,
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keep volunteering, keep country -- contributing at hillaryclinton.com. please join the 950,000 supporters who already have contributed. most less than $100 because our campaign depends on small donations for the majority of our support. we cannot do this without you, so if you have been waiting for the right moment, now is the time to come join us. [cheers and applause] hillary clinton: you know, tonight it is clearer than ever that this may be one of the most consequential campaigns of our lifetime. the next president will walk into the oval office next january, sit down at the desk, and start making decisions that will affect the lives and the
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livelihoods of everyone in this country, and everyone on this planet. [applause] hillary clinton: now, i know that easy decisions do not make it to the president's desk. only the hardest choices and the thorniest problems. i saw president wrestle with the decision to send navy seals after osama bin laden, the decision to rescue the auto industry, to fight for the affordable care act, and so many more. [applause] hillary clinton: and so, our next president has to be ready to face three big tasks. first, can you make positive differences in people's lives. second, can you keep us safe? third, can you bring our country
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together again? [applause] hillary clinton: now, making differences in people's lives comes first because americans everywhere are hungry for solutions. they want to break down the barriers holding the back so we can all rise together. ask any parent. you will hear nothing is more important than making sure their kids have a good school at a good teacher, no matter what zip code they live in. [applause] hillary clinton: they deserve a president who understands that when we invest in our children's education, we are investing in all of our futures. and young people across america struggling under the weight of student debt find it difficult to imagine the futures they want
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and they deserve a president who will help relieve them of that burden and help future generations go to college without borrowing a dime for tuition. [applause] and, you know,: grandparents who worry about retirement deserve the president who will protect and then expand social security for those who need it most. not cut or privatize it. [applause] hillary clinton: families deserve a president who will fight for the things that our priorities at home that to our -- too often are not parties in washington. a formal childcare, paid family leave, and something we have waited for long enough, equal pay for equal work. [applause]
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hillary clinton: and above all, hard-working americans across our country deserve a president with both the ideas and the know-how to create good jobs with rising incomes right here in our country. and i am absolutely convinced that we have the tools to do that. that is why i have laid out the program to do what can be done. more good jobs and infrastructure. more good jobs and manufacturing. more good jobs in small businesses. more good jobs and clean, renewable energy. good paying jobs are the ticket
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to the middle class and we are going to stand up for the american middle class again. we are going to stand up for american workers and make sure no one takes advantage of us, not china, not wall street, and not overpaid corporate executives. [applause] now, look.nton: of course, every candidate, every candidate makes promises like this. but every candidate owes it to you to be clear and direct about what our plans will cost and how we are going to make them work. that is the difference between running for president and being president. [applause] hillary clinton: and i will tell you -- [crowd chanting "hillary!"]
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hillary clinton: the second big test is keeping us safe. protecting america's national security can never be an afterthought. our commander-in-chief has to be able to defend our country, not to embarrass it. [applause] hillary clinton: engage our allies, not alienate them. defeat our adversaries, not embolden them. when we care, a candidate for president called for rounding up rounding up -- running up immigrants, banning muslim, when he embraces torture, that does not make him strong, that makes him wrong.
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[cheers and applause] hillary clinton: and yes, our next president has to your country together so we can all share in the promise of america. we should be breaking down barriers, not building walls. we are not going to succeed by dividing this country between us and them. you know, to be great, we cannot be small. we cannot lose what made america great in the first place. and this is not just about donald trump. all of us have to do our part. we cannot just talk about economic inequality, we have to take on all forms of inequality and discrimination. together, we have to defend all of our rights, civil rights, and voting rights, workers rights
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and women's rights. lgbt rights and rights for people with disabilities. [applause] and that starts by standing with president obama when he nominates a justice to the supreme court. [applause] hillary clinton: our next president will face all these challenges and more. running for president is hard but being president is harder. it is the hardest, most important job in the world and no one person can succeed at the job without seeking and finding common ground to solve the problems we face. if we work together, we can make a real difference in people's lives. if we reach out to treat each other with respect, kindness, and even love instead of bluster and bigotry, if we lift each other up instead of tearing each
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other down, there is nothing we cannot accomplish together. so please, join me in this campaign, every vote counts, every volunteer our counts. every contribution counts. eight years ago, eight years ago on the night of the ohio primary, i said i was running for everyone who has ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out. for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up. for everyone who worked hard and never gives up. that is still true. hillary clinton: our campaign is for the steelworker i met in ohio on sunday night who was laid off but hoping to get back to work. it is for the mother i met in miami whose five children have not seen their father since he was deported. she dreams of a day when deportations and and families
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are reunited on a path to citizenship in america. [applause] hillary clinton: and it is for the mothers i stood with in chicago yesterday who have lost children to gun violence. they are turning their sorrow into a strategy and their mourning into a movement. let's stand with people who have courage, who have resilience, let's stand with everyone who believes america's best days are ahead. for all our challenges, i have never had more faith in our future and if we work together, if we go forward in this campaign, if we win in november, i know our future of a brighter tomorrow than yesterday. thank you all so very much. [cheers and applause]
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donald trump: thank you. thank you very much, everybody. this was an amazing evening. this was a great evening. they just announced north carolina. i do not know if they have announced illinois yet but we are leading by a lot so i think they are going to announce it. florida was so amazing. i want to thank our friends, northern marianas islands have been so incredible and we picked up nine delegates this morning. i heard very early in the morning, nine delegates, that is a lot and i just wanted to thank the governor, ralph torres, and that was a very nice start to the day, that i can tell you. many things have been happening
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over the last short period of time. cnn was very nice, they came up with a poll. they said 49%. we just had one from the economist just came out, 53% and it is interesting because i was watching the news a little while ago and one of the commentators who i am not particularly fond of but these are minor details, said, but donald trump does not get over 50%. i am at 43%, 45%. according to the economist, i am at 53% and i have to it's going these people, they do not understand, basic physics, basic mathematics, basic whatever you call it. we have four people, do you understand that so when i get 53 in this one as example, i had 53%, and that is with four people. that is an amazing achievement mathematically when you can get over 50% so someday, someday
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they are going to understand, someday when we take it all, they will understand but it is really ridiculous. i want to thank my family, my boys eric and don. they have been working so hard. ivanka and jared have been amazing. in two minutes i will call. she is about to have a baby. we have been thinking about that for little while but ivanka has been so helpful and jared has been amazing. it has been just great. i want to thank darren for -- baron for putting up with me. he goes, when are you coming home at a -- and i said it is pretty tough.
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yesterday i when up to ohio and youngstown. we had an incredible crowd, just amazing people in this country. we have so many great people. we will someday in the not too distant future if i win, otherwise it is not going to happen, i have to be honest with you but apple and all of these companies will be making their product in the united states. not in china, vietnam, and all that. [applause] hillary clinton: donald trump: and we're not going to be losing our companies. our companies are leaving our country rapidly. whether it is carrier air-conditioning, whether it is ford, eaton, so many companies are leaving. i am disgusted with it and i am tired of seeing it. there is no reason for it. it is gross incompetence at the highest level. we should not allow it to happen. pfizer, they are going to ireland.
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you have corporate and versions, -- inversions. people cannot get their money back into the country because the politicians cannot get along, they cannot make a deal. everybody agrees, democrat and republican, everybody agrees the money should come back. $2.5 trillion outside of this country, everyone agrees that money should be here and the politicians have not been able to make a difference. [applause] donald trump: we could make a deal. there is an example of something that you could do is i sat down with a few of the senators, a few of the congressman, you can make a deal on that in 10 minutes if you knew what you were doing because everybody wants to do it. and companies are actually leaving our country to get their money, not only because our taxes are too high which we will lower, by the way, but companies are leaving our country in order to go and get money, that is their money because there is no way of bringing an end. we have to -- we have a long way
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to go but i think at some point it is going to get done. this has been very exciting. this whole process. we started, i was one of 17 people, senators, governors, i have had such great support, dr. ben carson the other day endorsed us, great guy, great guy, wonderful man. and chris christie endorsed us, that was so incredible. [applause] donald trump: and today, pam bondi came up and endorsed us, she was great. she is a truly wonderful woman and the job she has done in florida is incredible. so many, we have such incredible support. paul ryan called me, tremendous call. i spoke with mitch mcconnell today, and many great conversation. we have to bring our party together. we have to bring it together. [applause]
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donald trump: with something happening that makes the republican party probably the biggest political story anywhere in the world. everybody is writing about it, all over europe everybody is talking about it. many more people, looking at the polling booths and different polling booths over the country. the lines are 4, 5, 6, blocks long. one woman working in the for 40 years and said we would have 2 people here, now look at the line. but like it was long, it was really long. five deep, and long. the people that are voting -- democrats are coming in, independents are coming in, and people that never voted before. it is an incredible thing. [applause]
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donald trump: i want to pay mars respects to todd palin, sarah's husband. she was making a speech of my behalf and it was fantastic was that everybody loves her. he was in an accident, it is tough, but he is going to be fine. i want to pay my respects to todd. [applause] donald trump: so, our theme, when we started, and -- sitdown everybody, please. we give you seats, reader have have to stand. [laughter] [applause] donald trump: i'm looking at all these people. good job. our whole squad, right?
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so, when this began, i said you have to do it. she was so supportive. she has been so supportive, and we have to do it. we came down the escalator, and it was about trade and borders. critically after that, and we shot right to the top of the polls. we have been leading him was from the beginning without fail. we went up in june, most people said i would never run, he just going to have fun. i mean, i'm having a good time. i am having a very nice time, but i'm working very hard. there is great anger. [applause] donald trump: one of the broadcasters were saying is there anger?
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a person supposed to say no they're not the way things are working. we love all the deals, the trade deals are wonderful. we lose 58 billion dollars a year in terms of imbalance. it is a total imbalance. we don't make a good deals anymore, we don't win anymore. they ask is there anger? i said there is anger. they want to see the country properly run. they want to see things properly taken care of. they want our military rebuilt, our militaries in a very bad state. they want it rebuilt. [applause] donald trump: they want the second amendment protected, and protected strongly. that is going to happen. you know what they want so badly? they want our veterans taken care of. our veterans are treated so badly. [applause] donald trump: so, we started and
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something happened -- paris happen. paris was a disaster. there have been many disasters. then we had a case in los angeles where it was in california -- where the 14 young people were killed. it just goes on and on. what happened with me is this whole run took on a hold of meaning. not just borders, or good trade deals, will make the best radios you ever seen. -- trade deals you ever seen. we've had endorsement from the smartest people in business. these people are going to be negotiating our deals. they're the best in the world. we will have such a great deals, we will do so good with trade, and the border, but it took on a whole new meaning. the meaning is very simple. we need protection in our country, and that is going to happen. all of a sudden, the poll
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numbers shot up. i think they're going to go and do a lot of trips over the next couple of months. i think we'll have a great victory. more importantly, we're going to start winning again. this country is going to start winning again. we don't win anymore. [applause] donald trump: we don't win with our military, we can't beat isis. we're going to knock the hell out of them. we don't win at trade, china, everybody. japan, mexico, vietnam, india, name the country. anybody we do business with beats us. we will make our country rich again, and a great again. we need the rich to make the great, i'm sorry to tell you. [applause]
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donald trump: i'm going forward, we had a fantastic evening. would've never thought this could happen. we are waiting for one result which could be very successful also. to win the states that we won, and by the margins. this is my second home, florida. to win by that kind of a number is incredible. [applause] donald trump: i have to say it i want to congratulate marco rubio on having run a really tough campaign. he is tough, he is smart, and is a great future. [applause] donald trump: i have to say, nobody has ever, and history politics, received the kind of negative advertising that i have. record, record, record, mostly
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false, i wouldn't say 100%, but about 90%. [laughter] donald trump: mostly false, vicious, horrible, they said was 18 million the first week, meeting last week. it added up to over $40 million. you explained it to me, because i can't. my numbers went up, i don't understand it. nobody understands it. my numbers went up. [applause] donald trump: it has been an interesting experience. adam scott, won at a golf tournament recently. i'm watching family with television screens all over. we are down at this gorgeous green, then a commercial comes on. the worst commercial. i am with these wonderful people
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from cadillac, and the top executives. when i say look over there, don't watch it, you don't want to watch this. isn't the grass beautiful? look, don't watch. they came in waves, one come after another, after another. then adam comes and is this handsome kid from australia. he made an unbelievable shot on the 18th hole. he is a great champion, just before we break for a commercial -- we will be right back mark champion fromeat australia, adam scott. and it was the commercial, and i said no. and it was two of them. what a day that was, what a disaster. [applause] donald trump: unbelievable.
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so again, i want to congratulate everybody. this is a really interesting process. it is an amazing process. it is very tough, by the end if you get to the end you can handle a lot of things, including pressure. that i can tell you. there is nothing like it. lies, deceit, viciousness, horrible things. some are nice. some are nice. some are really disgusting people back there. i want to say, we will go forward. we will win, but more importantly we will win for the country. we will win, win, win, and we're not stopping. thank you very much, everybody. [applause]
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>> florida senator marco rubio suspended his campaign after failing to win his home state. minutes.ks are 15 [applause] rubio: thank you. i want to congratulate donald trump, on a big victory in florida. [booing] marco rubio: no, no, no, our voters make the decisions. we respect that very much. i want to begin by thanking all
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of you today. i want you to know i am the beneficiary of the best to group of supporters, i've ever been associated with. thank you. not just here in florida, not just here in florida, but around the country. >> we love you, marco. marco rubio: i love you too. not just here, but all over the country in south carolina, and the great state of minnesota, and puerto rico, all over. we had a great team, we have a great team. i am so grateful for the help. there is nothing more you could have done. we worked as hard as we ever got. america is in the middle of a real political storm. we should have seen this coming. people are angry, and frustrated.
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it began back in 2007-2008. don't worry, you won't get beat up at our event. people are very frustrated about the direction of our country. [chanting] >> marco, marco, marco. marco rubio: thank you. people are frustrated. in 2007 and 2008 there was a world downturn in our economy. these changes happening right now are disrupting people's lives. people are very upset about it. they are told that -- people are angry and frustrated. there told if you are against
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illegal immigration, that makes you a bigot. they see america involved in the world, and americans spending money and losing their lives. they see there's very little gratitude for all the sacrifice that america makes. quite frankly, there are millions of people in the country that are tired to be looked down upon. told that they don't know what they're talking but it should listen to the so-called smart people. i know all these issues firsthand. i have lived paycheck to paycheck. i know what it is like to have to figure out how to find a money to fix the air conditioner that broke last night. i know my parents struggle to come i know millions are doing that. i know immigration in america is broken. my parents are immigrants, i grandparents were immigrants.
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i live in a community of immigrants. i've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. i battled my whole life against the so-called elites. people that thought i needed to wait my turn, or wait in line. i understand all of these frustrations. when i decided to run for president, i wanted to be realistic of all of these problems. but one that was optimistic about what lies ahead for our country. we have to have a realistic approach to fixing our immigration laws. we are living to this extraordinary economic transition that has disrupted people's lives. machines are replacing them, the pay is not enough. i know this new economy has incredible opportunity. i know that when america doesn't lead in these behind a vacuum. that vacuum leads to chaos. i know firsthand ours is a special nation. because we come from here doesn't the side of the get go. that is how a 44-year-old son of
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a bartender and a maid, that i can run for president of the united states of america. [applause] marco rubio: so, from a political standpoint, the easiest thing to have done in this campaign is to jump on all those anxieties i just talked about. to make people angry or, more frustrated. but i chose a different route, and i am proud of that. [applause] marco rubio: that would've been -- in a year like this, that would've been the easiest way to win. but that is not what is best for america. the politics of resentment against other people will not just leave us a fractured party,
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they will is a fractured nation. they leave us as a nation where people literally hate each other because they have different political opinions. we find ourselves at a point of not surprising for that the warning signs have been here for a decade. in 2010, the tea party wave carried us into office and that give republicans a majority in the house. but nothing changed. in 2014, the same voters gave republicans a majority in the senate, but still nothing changed. i blame some of that on the conservative movement, that is supposed to be about our ideals. i blame most of it on our political establishment. [applause] marco rubio: a political establishment that for far too long is looked down at conservatives as simpleminded people. they looked down at conservatives as simply bomb throwers. far too long get taken the votes of conservatives for granted.
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a political establishment that is grown to confuse cronyism for capitalism, and big business for free enterprise. i endeavored over the last 11 months to bridge this divide within our party, and our country. i know that after eight years of barack obama, this nation needs a vibrant and conservative movement. it needs a strong republican party to change the direction, or many of the things that are going wrong in america will become permanent. many of the things and make as a special country will be gone. america needs a vibrant, conservative movement. but one that is both conservatism, and ideas, not in fear, anger, or preying on people's frustrations. [applause] rubio: a conservative movement that believes the principles of our constitution and protects our rights to limit the power of government.
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it is committed to the concept of free enterprise, the only economic model where everyone can climb. a conservative movement that believes a strong national defense and a conservative movement that believes in the strong judeo-christian values that are the formation of our nation. [applause] marco rubio: we also need a new political establishment and our party. not one that looks down on people that live outside of the district of columbia. not one that tells young people the need to wait their turn. not one that is more interested in winning elections than it is insulting problems, or standing by principles. this is the campaign we have run, realistic that the challenges we face, but optimistic about the opportunities before us. a campaign that recognize the difficulties we face but also one that believes that we truly are on the verge of a new american century. a campaign to be president, a campaign to be president that
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would love all of the american people. even the ones that don't love you back. [applause] marco rubio: this is the right way forward for our party, and never country. after tonight, it is clear that while we are on the right side, this year we will not be on the winning side. i take great comfort in the ancient words which teach us that in their hearts humans plan their course and the lord establishes their steps. [applause] marco rubio: while this may not of been the year for hopeful, and optimistic message about our
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future, i still remain hopeful and optimistic about america. [applause] marco rubio: how can i not? my mother was one of seven girls born into a poor family. her father was disabled as a child. he struggled to provide for them his entire life. my mother told us a few years ago, she never went to bed hungry growing up but knows her parents did. she came to this country in 1956 with little education, no money, and no connections. my parents struggled their first years here, they were discouraged. they even thought of going back to cuba at one point. they never became rich, i didn't inherit any money from my parents. they never became famous. you never would've heard from them if i didn't run for office. i consider my parents to be very successful people. in this country, working hard, they owned a home. they retired with dignity. in this country, they live to see all four of their children live better off than themselves.
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in this country, on this day, my mother who is now 85 years old was able to cast a ballot for her son to be the president of the united states of america. [applause] marco rubio: and so -- [chanting] >> marco, marco, marco. marco rubio: and so, while it is not god's plan that i be president in 2016, or maybe ever. while today my campaign is suspended, the fact that i've even come this far is evidence of a special america truly is. and all the recent more why we must do all that we can to ensure this nation remains a special place. i asked the american people, do
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not to give in to the fear. do not give in to the frustration. we can disagree about public policy, we can disagree about it vibrantly. we are hopeful people. we have every right to be hopeful. we in this nation are the descendents of go-getters. in our veins run the blood of everybody give it all up. where all descendents of someone, the descendents of pilgrims, settlers. we are the descendents of many women that headed westward not
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knowing what awaited them. we are the descendents of slaves who overcame that horrible institution to stake their claim in the american dream. with the descendents of immigrants, and exiles, who believed they were destined for more. there's only one place on earth what that was possible. this is who we are. let us fight to ensure this is who we remain. if we lose that about our country, we will still be rich, and will still be powerful. but we will no longer be special.
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i want you to know that i will continue every single day to search for ways for me to repay some of the six ordinary debt that i of this great country. i want to leave with an expression of gratitude to god, in whose hands all things lie. he has a plan for everyone of our lives. everything that comes from god is good. god is perfect. god makes no mistakes. he has things planned for all of us. we await eagerly to see what lies ahead. i leave tonight with one final prayer, and they use the word of king david, because i remain grateful to god. yours, o lord, is the power, the glory, and the majesty. indeed, everything that is in the heavens, and the earth. yours is the dominion, o lord. both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. in your hand is power, and might. it lies in your hand to make great, and strengthen everyone. may god strengthen our people, and our nation. may god strengthen the conservative movement, may he strengthen the republican party.
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