my wife and my daughter always be moreling and dad, presidential. if i am president, we call up carrier. can you imagine calling air-conditioning companies? who the hell cares? we said, enjoy your new plant. a little hot, but that is ok. just a you understand, you let go 1400 great people. they are unemployed in the united states as you make your air-conditioners. here is what is going to happen. the politicians cannot figure it out. they are paid off with campaign contributions. even if they figure it out, they are not going to do anything about it, ok? , i hope you enjoy your

beautiful new plant in mexico. anry single time you make air-conditioning unit and send it across our now very powerful goingrong border, you are to pay a 35% tax on the unit. ok? 35%. [applause] mr. trump: here is what is going to happen. if it is not me, if it is somebody else -- how about hillary? how bad is hillary? bad is hillary? cruz -- is hillary or by the way, i will beat hillary so badly in the general election -- [applause] mr. trump: you heard the other weremembers of her team

caught saying the one person she does not want to run against is trump. believe me, it will be fun. we have not started on her yet. the only time i started on her was two months ago, and believe me, her and bill had a bad evening. i do not know it will be hillary. maybe something is going to happen. maybe she will not be allowed to run. i do not know what is going on. for the e-mail scandal, maybe something is going to happen. here is what is going to happen. if it is hillary, or if it is politician,y, any they will call their lobbyist that has "cruz" emblazoned on his forehead.

hillary, see cruz, whoever it might be, and they say, you cannot do that. they gave you millions of dollars when you ran for senate. these are good people. here is the deal. i do not get money from anybody. so i can do what is right for you. i will do what is right for you. so with carrier as an example, and i could use ford, they will call me back and put a little pressure on me. pressure does not work on me. iat they are going to do is will say, you do not understand. it is a 35% tax. they will say, mr. president, we have decided not to leave the united states. it is so, so simple.

here is what is happening. i have a lot of fans here. they have known me a long time. isoll came out today that through the roof, my standing in new york. what makes me happy is when the people who know me best, and you know me well, when the people who know me the best give me poll numbers no one can believe. weeks, go vote. we have momentum. we have a movement. we will turn this country around so fast. you have to get out and vote. [chanting "u.s.a."] mr. trump: so i have been calling a lot of shots right.

in 2000 and talk about osama bin laden two years before the world trade center. once in a while, a political pundit will say, that is amazing. we have to know what we are talking about. i have been talking about taking the oil for what? five years? you know who has the oil? isis has the oil. iran as the oil. politicians are incompetent. they do not know what the hell they are doing. the press is so dirty. the press is so bad. they are terrible. look at them. they are terrible. they are terrible people. by the way, we have 15,000 people.

another 5000 outside. they are never going to show it. [applause] mr. trump: you will go home to your families tonight. you will say it is unbelievable. your wife or your husband will say, darling, were there many people there? she will not know because she watched it on television. i am always making these life speeches. i would like to do it like the other guys. nobody covers them. nobody shows up. you will go home tonight and your wife or husband will say, were there many people? the cameras never want to scan my audiences because they are so big and so incredible. by the way, we have so many people. read this thing, i want

to thank your police and your chief. [applause] mr. trump: i want to thank big joe from nassau. you know big joe. where is he? he is around here. i want to thank steve from suffolk, all of the incredible politicians. half the world is here tonight, but i want to thank all the political leaders. we have the greatest leaders in new york state. we have leaders that say, we are not going to put up with this stuff any longer. i want to thank them for being here. so i have called a lot of shots. i have gotten credit, pretty much, for calling a lot of shots. i have a good instinct for it. we have illegal immigrants pouring into our country. we do not know what is happening. that will stop.

we have the migration. we have people coming in by the thousands with no documentation, with no paperwork. we do not know where they come from, who they are. you watch what happens. it could be isis. i hope it is not. you see what happened in paris, what happened in california with two young people that got married. they shot 14 people, killed them. they became radicalized. we are not going to put up with it, folks. we are not going to put up with it. [applause] so this was written by the great al green. it was a song. i thought it was great. when you listen to the words, remember what i am saying. when you listen to the words, you have to think about people

pouring into the country. thank you. out of 17,000 people, i think we have one that will be headlines tomorrow. that is all right. that is all right. for get him. you cannot hear him anyway. that is all right. are we ready? or do you want to let him go a little further? out?u want him you got to get him out. get him out.- all right. get him out.

do not hurt the person. do not hurt the person. do not hurt the person. don't hurt him. is the trump rally the greatest? [applause] mr. trump: get him out.

mr. trump: all right. get him out. they are gone. do you know what it is? i will tell you. be very gentle. very, very gentle. when i am like this, they say andp is getting weaker, when i am tough, they say he is too tough. you cannot win. ok. let's go. are you ready? here is the story. you think of this in the terms of people coming into the country, especially coming in from syria. we do not know where they are, who they are. they are all over the place. believe me, it will be a problem. this is called "the snake." ,n her way to work one morning

down the path along the lake, a oor,erhearted woman saw a p half frozen snake. his pretty skin had been all frosted with the dew. i will take you in and take care of you. take me in, tender woman. sake,e in for heavens sighed the broken snake. she wrapped him up all cozy in a and laid himsilk by the fireside with honey and milk. she hurried home from work that night. -- soon as she arrived, she found that pretty snake she had taken in had finally been revived. take me in, tender woman. take me in, for heavens sake,

sighed the broken snake. she clutched him to hurt bosom. you are so beautiful, she cried. if i had not brought you in, you might have died. she stroked his pretty skin and kissed him and held him tight. instead of saying thank you, that snake gave her a vicious bite. take me in, tender woman, take me in for heavens sake. sighed in, tender woman, the broken spec. -- snake. you, and now you are going to die. the up, silly woman, said reptile with a grin. snake before you

took me in. [applause] mr. trump: believe me folks, believe me. believe me. we all understand. our country has to start getting tough. we have to be vigilant. we have to be vigilant. we have to be smart. we have to know that there is all sorts of traps out there. we do not want more world trade centers, planes flying into the pentagon. we do not want them where that other plane was going, the white house. we had some brave people. some brave people took down that plane. brave, brave people. brave. you had better believe it. in their honor. [chanting "u.s.a."]

so we are going to be smart. we are going to be tough. we are going to be vigilant. we are not going to be politically correct all the time, politically correct. [applause] >> we love you, donald. mr. trump: i love you too. i do not say that often to guys, but i love that guy over there. so we are going to do a lot of things if i win. we are going to take our budget. we are going to make it good. we are going to make sure the nations we are friends with, japan, germany, south korea, saudi arabia, so many nations, we pay for their military. we take care of their military. it is all fine. but we are $19 trillion in debt. we are going to $21 trillion in debt soon because of a horrible budget made three months ago called the omnibus budget which

lets everyone coming to our country, which is a disaster, which helps obamacare which, by the way, we are going to repeal and replace with something great. [applause] mr. trump: so we are going to bring back our country. we are going to make our country strong again. we are going to make our country respected again. we are going to use our finest people, our brightest minds. we are going to make great deals. we are going to have apple computers. companies like that, many are going toey start making their products not in china, but in the usa, folks. that is where they are going to make their products, 100%. 100%. [chanting "u.s.a."]

mr. trump: so here is the story. here is the story in a nutshell. you are going to look at this four years, years, 12 years, 20 years, and say this was a great evening. for was an evening wear, the first time, we heard somebody say that we are not going to be a scapegoat and stupid people anymore. we are not going to allow the us off. continue to ripu we are going to get along great with the world, but we are not going to let it happen. i say it now, america first. [applause] mr. trump: it will happen, too,

folks. and it will happen fast. here is the story. you are going to remember this evening. and hopefully every single person in this room and people you know that are not in this room, next tuesday, meaning in 12 days, you are going to go out and vote. and you are going to say it was the most important vote you have ever cast. you are going to be proud of your country again. you are going to be proud of your president again. we are going to start winning. we are going to win with our military. we are going to kick the hell out of isis. we are going to win with our veterans. we are going to win with health care. we are going to get rid of common core. we are bringing our education locally. we are going to have local education. we are going to protect and

cherish our second amendment, which is under siege. [applause] mr. trump: and we are going to have strong borders. we are going to have our country back, and we are going to have the wall. let me just tell you. we are going to start winning again, folks. [chanting "build a wall"] mr. trump: it is going to happen. gonna happen. so remember this evening. you go out and vote. i can only tell you you will be so proud, so happy. we are going to win, win, win. we are going to make america great again. i love you. thank you. thank you, everybody. thank you very much.

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we need a president that will talk about it. i believe bernie sanders is a protester. he is not scared. that is why i am for bernie. >> i am bernie sanders, and i approve this message. by theof the newest ads sanders campaign on the air in new york before the primary. corasaniti ofnick the new york times. what is the message in this ad? runhis ad is one that was at a longer length in south carolina, featuring erica garner, the daughter of erica garner, the man who died during arrest when put in a chuckle -- chokehold. life ased about her new

an activist. after that, there are pictures of bernie sanders as a young man at the chicago civil rights protests. she said, i believe senator sanders. i believe bernie sanders is a protester. it is trying to make him seem like one of us. it is a message the campaign has been advertising when they do outreach to african-american communities. we are with you in this fight for equal rights, equal treatment. the underlying message of the ad er says he is garn a protester, that is her way of saying he is with us in the fight. >> this sets the stage for a primary in new york that will be getting a lot of media attention , especially in light of today's front story in the new york news. guns becoming a very personal issue to new york voters.

it will certainly be an issue that will come up in the new york primary. it will be interesting to see how the candidates go from navigating the wisconsin market to the new york media market. secretary clinton is familiar with new york, both upstate and new york city. she knows how to navigate the tabloids and major newspapers, the networks. she has connections to upstate. whereas senator sanders, while brooklyn,esident in he is not as familiar with the voters and the current state of new york politics. i think you will see from that interview with the daily news and a few other ways he has been reintroducing himself to new york, he is clearly coming from a bit of a disadvantage, not being a former senator of new york.

i think that will be part of the initial stages of the primary. >> clearly, the candidates want to win. as we saw in wisconsin yesterday, even though hillary clinton lost, she still picked up delegates. the sender's campaign want to win new york. is it more about the math than anything else? >> at this point in the race, it is about the delegate math just as much as the momentum that comes off a win like wisconsin. both campaigns are looking at new york as a place to pick up delegates and protect their lead and keep the race where it is. a clinton loss in new york would be humiliating and create new worry about her strength as a candidate in the party. her campaign has been saying, not directly, but hinting that senator sanders would need a significant win in new york to close the gap. if it is anything like wisconsin, the math is still in

the clinton's campaign favor. while senator sanders would obviously love a win and get big partntum going, a of it will be picking up a ton of delegates and a substantial victory in order to not necessarily keep going but cut into the lead in a meaningful way. >> you have been looking at some of the latest polling in new york. , anddo the polls tell you how different is it between new york city and upstate? >> certainly very different. you see the clinton home state advantage in terms of her being a former senator and familiar to the people of new york as a resident. she still has a commanding double-digit lead in most polls. she also has a good network built in the state. when she was senator, she was certainly known to new york city but kicked off her campaign doing an upstate listening tour.

has made a lot of campaign platforms off her experience as a senator. her agricultural policy comes from her experience with new york state farms. she tells a story about how she learned that there was more than careow in new york and the -- became aware of dairy farmers in new york. she has a strong network in new york that goes from new york city to upstate. she will do well in new york city with her reputation among the african-american and minority communities. she will do strong in cities like buffalo and rochester as well. senatorof her tenure as , she has a strong base in rural areas. that is not to say that senator sanders does not have strongholds. ithacad cornell use -- and cornell, there are a lot of young people in those cities.

it will be interesting to see how it plays out, how he can cut into her long-established roots. >> we will look for your reporting at nytimes.com. nick corasaniti, thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. travels tot obama chicago tomorrow to talk to students at the university of chicago law school about the supreme court and country's judicial system. 3:30 p.m.m live at eastern on c-span. hillary clinton made a campaign stop at carnegie mellon university in pittsburgh three weeks before the pennsylvania primaries. of campus, she talked to supporters. this is just under 40 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, mayor bill

, the countynudo executive, and hillary clinton. song, takes my fight back my life song ♪ ♪ >> wow. what a crowd. so fortunate to have

hillary clinton here today to talk about her future for america. [applause] >> secretary clinton has been somebody who has been breaking down barriers her whole life and will continue to do that. she is somebody with a great heart and also with the smarts to move this country forward and get things done. [applause] on april 26, western pennsylvania is going to be clinton country. [applause] >> while there are other candidates out there talking about building walls, we know that pittsburgh --

[booing] >> we know that pittsburgh is the city of bridges. [applause] >> and secretary clinton is bridges.who builds [applause] and to introduce the next president of the united states great mayor, who builds bridges as well, mayor penudo. it is so great to be at carnegie mellon. hello, pittsburgh. outside, the rolling hills.

can you feel the hills? [applause] how about it? hall of famer franco harris. he knows what backing a champion means. alumniretary is a proud of carnegie mellon university. i gave it a couple years and it did not work out. there were so many great times that i remember on the stage. the clash played in 1982. we had a historical moment in pittsburgh. think about pittsburgh in the 1980's. it was so much different than it is today. we were looking at economic collapse. we were looked at around the world as a city that had lived its time and a city that had died. if you see it today and the way it has come back, you understand

that is hope when you invest in people and you have a vision of where to go. when you understand that what unites us makes us stronger and what divides us makes us weak. when you are not afraid to look at challenges and you address them. that is how pittsburgh came back. across the mayors country, the progressive mayors across this country, are backing hillary clinton. ouruse she understands past. she knows where we are at, and she has a vision for our future and america for all. introduce the to next president of the united states, secretary hillary clinton. [applause]

[chanting "hillary"] ms. clinton: thank you. thank you. thank you so much. wow. i am thrilled to be here at carnegie mellon university. and to be in this great american city, as the mayor so rightly said. a city that has not only built bridges but roads into the future, demonstrating absolutely that you can have resilience if you are resourceful, if you do not give up, you keep working together. we can make it here in

pittsburgh and america. [applause] out of aon: come tradition of american progressiveism that believes with all our hearts that we are one country, one people, one future. and we have to work with each other, lift each other up. we have to respect each other. -- bye to demonstrate our diversethat city is an asset. [applause] ms. clinton: it makes us the luckiest nation in the world to dreams, theent, the aspirations, of countless people. sot i want to do, if i am fortunate as to be president, is

knocked down every barrier that stands in the way of any american being able to fulfill his or her god-given potential. deserves then building blocks of a personal that will help us build america's future. i have been very clear in this campaign. i take a backseat to nobody. [cheers and applause] ms. clinton: when it comes to , but i doogressive believe that if you are a progressive, you need to make progress. you need to get things done. you need to bring people together. that is what i intend to do. i think there are three big tests the next president has to meet. and if you think about it, you

are actually doing a big job interview. you want to know, who are these people running for president? where do they come from? what do they believe? what have they done in the past? what have they not just said, but what have they accomplished? [cheers and applause] ms. clinton: and can we count on them, can we count on them to stand up for americans and america? so here are these tests. number one, can the next president actually deliver results that make differences, positive differences, in the lives of americans of all ages? you have to be able to ask that. one of the ways you look is, what have you gone already? who have you helped? who have you fought for? who have you taken on? -- have used it up against

stood up against? the second test is, can you keep us safe and continue to lead the world on behalf of american values? the third is, can you unify america? can you bring us together, end the divisiveness that has become all too common in our politics? so when i think about producing results, i think about my grandfather, who came with his family as a young immigrant to northeast pennsylvania, to scranton. think about how he went to s whenn the scranton mill he was still a teenager. he worked there his entire life.

good, built a middle-class life in those times for his three sons. and then, his sons went to college. penn state. [cheers and applause] ms. clinton: and when they got out of college -- i know, it is a little up the road -- when they got out of college, they had a better future. my dad was a small businessman. my mom had a tough upbringing, but she got through it, and she thatd resilience and grit was such a great example to me. every one of us has a story. your own families, you have seen the struggles. maybe not in your time, but in the prior generation. what has been so extraordinary about america, this amazing

experiment, is that we delivered. we were not perfect, and we had a lot of problems to overcome. but we delivered and we never gave up. and we just kept going. yes, sometimes, we fell short of our own dreams. but that did not stop us. you to i want understand, as i looked out at all of you, particularly those of you in front of me, this election is much more about your futures than anything else. it is about what kind of country will be waiting for you as you make your decisions over the next years and what kind of world will be out there. i want you to imagine with me what we can build together. createsan economy that enough good paying jobs for every american to feel that he or she counts, to have the

purpose and dignity that comes with a good job, with a rising income. [cheers and applause] imagine that we put millions of americanto work , fixing our infrastructure, our roads, our bridges, our tunnels, our port, our airports. not only what we can see, but what we cannot see. person in america should ever drink water contaminated by lead or anything else. [cheers and applause] imagine that we, once again, become a manufacturing engine of the world, that we are building what the world needs, what is creating our future. i was just over at the robotics institute. [cheers and applause] and i saw the

extraordinary work they are in medicine, in manufacturing, i the kind of home care delivery that will be part of our future because of the work done at this great university by the faculty, by the students. [cheers and applause] us, onceon: i want again, to believe that we can make the future by making the goods that we can then export around the world. i know we can do this because not only at the robotics institute but in many places across our country, i have seen that future. i know what we can accomplish. but we have to make sure our tax code rewards that kind of work. we invest in research again at the level that we should from the federal government. [cheers and applause] so that is why, for

both infrastructure and manufacturing, i have laid out very specific plans on how to do this. banked an infrastructure that can continue to fund the kind of work that needs to be done in our country and, in manufacturing, i have a $10 billion plan that will invest in the kind of inventions and productivity that can come right out of this great university and put people to work. [cheers and applause] and i want you to join me in one of the great goals that has ever been set by human beings. and that is to combat climate change and begin to reverse the effects of greenhouse gas emissions. [cheers and applause] i care passionately about this because i actually

listen to the scientists. [cheers and applause] ms. clinton: and when you ask the republicans who are running, you know they all say, they all say, well, i am not a scientist. t carnegie mellon could help teach them about climate change and what it means for our country. but it is not only because we face this exit stencil threat -- threat, but there are economic opportunities if we put our heads together and work to create them. 2009, president obama and i had to crash one of the conferences and stalk the chinese and indians that said

they could not meet with us because they were on the way to the airport. on the way to the airport? the meeting is not over. we sent out scouts to the convention center. word came back that they are way in the back having a secret meeting. the president and i said, well, i think we would like to attend. so off we went. [cheers and applause] they had been dodging and avoiding us for days. them and the up to security guards were saying, no, no, no, and president obama and i kept smiling, hi, hi. the room was covered with curtains and you could not see who was in there. the president pushed through the security guard's arm and i ducked under the security guard's arm. we got into the room, and the

president said, we have been looking for you. we pulled up chairs and sat down and said, let's reach some agreement so we can start to move the world towards actually with and to dealing reversing the effects of greenhouse gas emissions. [cheers and applause] ms. clinton: and that is why i countriesed when 195 signed the agreement in paris. my opponent said, that was not good enough. do not let perfect be the enemy of good. countries on board. [cheers and applause] ms. clinton: so now, here is our challenge. some country is going to be the 21st century clean energy superpower. as things stand right now, it will be germany, china, or us.

i want it to be us, and i want carnegie mellon to help lead the way. [chanting "u.s.a."] bigclinton: i have set two goals. i want to have a north american climate agreement. we need to be working with canada and mexico as we redo our grid. we need to be understanding how we are going to challenge states , on top of clean power plants, to go even further. i said, let's have half a billion more solar panels end of my first term, and enough clean energy to power every home by the end of my second term. these are jobs that have to be done in pennsylvania and across the united states. and these are opportunities for us. i really challenge all of you to think about what each of you can do to contribute to our efforts to take on what is the 21st

century global challenge. that, as we move forward with these big opportunities, we have to do more for small businesses, especially to help young people start their small businesses, follow their dreams. [cheers and applause] i have been told, and i believe it to be true that carnegie mellon has the best return on federal dollar research money coming to any higher-end research institution in the country. [cheers and applause] and one of the reasons is because you have made it easier for faculty and grad students and maybe even undergrads to start businesses. i want to unleash that. i want to see millions of new american small businesses. that is where most of the new jobs will come from.

so i want to open up opportunities for you. i also want our economy to be fairer. imagine that people who work full-time get paid a minimum wage that does not end up in poverty at the end of the year. [cheers and applause] and imagined, getine, that finally, women equal pay for the work we do. [cheers and applause] ms. clinton: this is not just a women's issue. it is a family issue. a wife or a mother or a sister or a daughter who is working and they are not being paid fairly and equally, when

they go to the store, when they are in the supermarket checkout line, the cashier does not say, ok. you only have to pay $.78 on the dollar. or if you are an african-american woman, you only have to pay $.68 on the dollar. if you are a latino woman, you only have to pay $.58 on the dollar. last time i checked, there was no woman's discount for failing to get equal pay in the first place. [cheers and applause] now, everything i just said, the republicans are against. every single thing. we know, i am proud that brought the issues to the democratic primary. tell, as i can republicans have run insult-

oriented campaigns. but make no doubt about it. they will do everything they can to take back the white house. plusey get the white house the republican congress, we will not recognize our country. this is one of the most consequential elections. build on the progress president obama has made, and we have to go further. [cheers and applause] and here is one of those inconvenient facts you might want to share with your republican friends. our economy does better when we have a democrat in the white house. [cheers and applause] ms. clinton: i mean, we do not have to go back to ancient history. during the 1990's under my husband's presidency --

[cheers and applause] of eighton: at the end years, we had 23 million new jobs, and income went up for everybody, not just people on the top. middle-class families, working families, poor families. the median family income went up 17% in those eight years. and the median african american income went up 33% because there were so many jobs. p with a balanced budget and surplus. hard to beat that record. i will tell you what. the republicans, you give them credit for consistency. they are consistently wrong when it comes to the economy. [cheers and applause] ms. clinton: so in comes george w. bush. i was in the senate, representing new york.

i stood up on the senate floor and said, they do not want to take us back before the clinton years. they want to take us back before franklin roosevelt, before teddy roosevelt. they were slashing taxes. they were absolutely taking their eyes off the financial markets and the mortgage markets. and we know what happened -- the worst financial crisis since the great depression. i do not think president obama gets the credit he deserves for taking us out of the debt the republicans put us in. [cheers and applause] ms. clinton: so beware. the samepeddling economic snake oil. trickle down economics all over again. well, we are not going to let them get away with it. it may be uncomfortable for them, but we have history,

the facts, and common sense on our side. that is why i want us to build on the progress we have made but go further. the key to the economy i imagine can create is education. i think we have to start with early childhood education. [cheers and applause] when i got out of law school, i went to work for the children's defense fund. and working for children and giving children a chance and for every child is at the core of what i believe we must do. for me, making sure that every kid has a chance to fulfill that potential is critical to our economy, critical to our democracy. and that is why we need help kids so-k and

that, when they get to school, they are prepared and ready to actually learn. looking at are elementary and secondary education, i want to be a good partner with our nation's public school teachers. i want to give them the support that they need. [cheers and applause] you know, before i came out here, i had the incredible honor of meeting a of a young family high school student from here in pittsburgh, who went to woodlands high school. kaylee macdonald. and i met the family because entlee had been an ard supporter of mine. she came to meet me in pittsburgh when she was a little girl.

it was her dream to someday go into politics herself. had a diseaseylee that was not properly treated in the very beginning. and she passed away just a few days ago. called school actually off school because she was the kind of young woman that everybody knew and everybody liked. she was popular, but she also was kind to the kids who were not. for teachers told her parents, her grandparents, her little brother, that they were sure that kaylee would have realized her dream. i want to just mention her because she will not be able to fulfill those dreams for the kind of world, the kind of country, she wanted to see. every one of us can do our part. for those of us in education, it is such an important role, and i

want to be a good partner. and i want to give young people the chance to be able to afford to go to college without drowning in debt. every single young person. [cheers and applause] ms. clinton: i know we can do this because right now, it is just not fair. to many kids are being shut out. they start, but they never finish. they never graduate. not because they are not able. they cannot afford it. if they get out, they often end up with huge debt. how many of you have student debt? yeah. exactly. you to be able to get out from under it. here is what i want to do. in addition to having debt free tuition for people going to

college, if you come out with debt, i want you to be able to refinance that debt to save thousands of dollars, to get it the way you can refinance a mortgage or a car payment. [cheers and applause] ms. clinton: and we are going to revamp the entire student aid industry because i want more people to have the chance i did. when i got out of law school and went to work for the children's defense fund, i made very little money. i did not care. i wanted to do that work. but i was fortunate because i was in a plan where i could pay back my debt as a percentage of my income. makingough i was only $14,000 a year, i could afford to rent a place. i want you to have that chance. your debtt to end after a certain number of years. are done,ears, you

even if you have unpaid debt ahead of you. [cheers and applause] and we are going to get the harassing bill collectors out of your life. the practiceto end of the government making money off of kids who go to school. we are going to continue to work on the affordable care act and make sure we get the cost down and expand the opportunities under it and take on high prescription drug costs. [cheers and applause] ms. clinton: now, again, everything i just said, republicans do not agree with. they also want to limit our rights, all of our rights. i want you to know where i stand. i will defend a woman's right to make her own health care decisions. [cheers and applause]

ms. clinton: and i will defend planned parenthood against the partisan attacks the republicans have been throwing at them. [cheers and applause] defendnton: and i will marriage equality and end discrimination against the lgbt community. i will defend voting rights, which are under attack by states across our union. [cheers and applause] and i will do everything i can to either reverse or pass a constitutional amendment to absolutely end citizens united and its corruption on our political system. [cheers and applause] know, a lot ofu people say they are against it. i take this personally. it was about me.

many, many,f the many attacks the right wing has waged against me by this group, citizens united. know, oncere, you again, making stuff up about me, running pretended documentaries about me. they could not do it. they appealed to the supreme court. the supreme court said, oh yes of course, speech equals money. the more money you have the more speech you have. somehow, i don't think that was part of the logic of the first amendment. i think this is truly one of the worst decisions at her. in our history. -- ever. in our history. [applause] harde also going to work on a range of issues the republicans are also against. i do not believe we should privatize social security. we ought to extend the life of the social security trust fund.

we should fix the problems with the veterans ministration, not privatize it. -- veterans administration, not privatize it. [applause] we should keep working with comprehensive immigration reform, with the path towards citizenship. [applause] up to thew to stand gun lobby to get common sense gun safety reform. [applause] -- and we should stand up to the gun lobby to get common sense gun safety reform. so we have a big agenda. it is important when we imagine that future that we want for you to think, ok who can deliver? you know, before there was something called obamacare was llarycare,led hi right? [applause] i have been in the trenches fighting for justice, fairness,

equality my entire adult life. i am proud to continue that fight. because it is at the core of who we are as america. so we do stand up and make sure our voices and our votes count. and the second test is, can you keep us safe? and here, you have to recognize you are voting for a president and a commander-in-chief. national security -- [applause] national security is not an afterthought. it is a core possibility of the presidency. [applause] and it is essential. [applause] that we do everything we can to lead the world, to bring us together, to further our interest them advance our values, and keep us safe at home. i was part of the biggest counterterrorism decision in the last decade, the decision to go after osama bin laden. [applause]

as a senator from new york, i wanted to bring him to justice. [applause] and so, i advised the president. to go forward, but the president had to make the decision. and president obama made the right decision. [applause] now finally, the third test is, can you bring us together. ? and boy, do we need that right now. you know, when i listen to the rhetoric coming out of donald trump's campaign -- [booing] it is deeply disturbing because it is intended to set people against one another. it is intended to incite prejudices and paranoia. it is even intended to incite violence, as we have seen. it is so contrary to who we are

and who we must be if we are going to own the future, and i intend for our country to own the future, to make the future, to be the future. [applause] will goe tell you, i anywhere any time, meet with anyone to find common ground. i did it as first lady. i did it as senator, secretary of state. oner we were not successful health care reform, i got back up and said, what can we do? you always have the to determine what can we do. that is the progressive tradition. so i worked with democrats and republicans and we created the children's health insurance program. and 8 million children got health care for the first time in many of his. [applause] and when i was in the senate, i worked with i think practically every republican. i worked to find that common

ground, sometimes it was only a sliver of ground. but that is our obligation when we are in public life. we do not have the luxury, as some do dictatorships and religious theocracies to say my way or no way, that is not the way democracy is supposed to work. progress sometimes way too slowly to satisfy me. and when i was secretary of helped to negotiate a nuclear arms treaty with russia to reduce the number of nuclear weapons on both sides. what remains the biggest threat, the biggest immediate threat that our world faces. and we got the agreement signed. but we had to get two thirds ite in the senate, that meant needed 30 republicans to vote. i started working on a, working and working and working. d is kind of a

but necessary kind of work. how can i push this forward just an inch or 2, 6 or seven if i am lucky? well, i got those those. we got those treaties. because we lowered the number of nuclear weapons in russia and the united states. so here is what i am asking you. i am asking you to imagine the future with me. because i want your support of course. in this upcoming primary on april 26, but i will also want it if i am fortunate enough to be the nominee in november. what to you when i really want it -- [applause] it when i am sworn in as president. and we all begin to work together to fix these problems,

to make the future happen. [applause] [cheering] so carnegie mellon, pittsburgh, western pennsylvania, please come support me on april 26 and i will fight for and support you for the next 4-8 years. thank you and god bless you. [applause] ♪ this is my fight song take back my life song strongbe i will play my fight song ♪ announcer: c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up thursday morning, olivia golden, executive director director for the center for law and social policy talks about work mandates taking

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senate banking committee and urban affairs committee. republican presidential candidate and ohio governor john kasich delivered his state of the state address before a joint session of the state legislature at the people's bank theater in marietta, ohio. this is an hour. [applause]

[whistling] [cheering] [applause] gov. kasich: now that we have had the obligatory selfie and you have seen that the ohio general assembly is one big family, ladies and gentlemen, it is my great honor to introduce

to you our great governor, john kasich. [cheers and applause] gov. kasich: thank you all very much. thank you. [applause] [cheering] [whistling] thank you. thank you all very much. thank you. well, i couldn't resist that baby. when she gets to be 18 and decides to vote, i will be out of politics, but that's so swe et. congratulations on the beautiful baby. she didn't even cry. thank you, mr. president, mr. speaker. i want to thank you, the members of the general assembly, for bringing this joint legislative session. i hope you are all beginning to realize that getting this out of the capital is a good idea and i hope it will continue for a very long time.

and it is a historic day for our first permanent city. special thanks to the people of this great community, the local officials, law enforcement officers, and other community leaders and staff and trustees of this beautiful people's bank. this is a phenomenal place. and all who have helped make this possible. justice o'connor is here, along with justice french. where are they? committee recognized? [applause] gov. kasich: i hope you will join me in welcoming mary taylor. where is mary? [applause] gov. kasich: and of course, the other members of my cabinet and staffers with us tonight. they have been out all over this town all day long. where's the cabinet? if they could stand and be

recognized. [applause] ok. and finally, i'd like to say a word. i said to my wife, our kids are 16, sophomore in high school, a lot of demand is on them, and they are now driving. i said to my wife, "if you can't make it down here, i understand, everybody will understand, you have things you have to do." so i came down here with the expectation that my wife might watch on television, but she shocked me and surprised me. love you, sweetie. karen kasich, the first lady of ohio. [applause] gov. kasich: tomorrow, april 7, will mark 228 years to the day that 48 daring adventurers first settled here in marietta.

the pioneering spirit of those early settlers remains alive in marietta today, as do a number of their descendents. one of them is with us this evening. nancy putnam hollister, our first female governor -- where is she? [cheers and applause] gov. kasich: you know, those first settlers couldn't imagine at the time, but by opening the door to america's western frontier, they were opening one of the most important chapters in the history of the new american nation. think about this. in 1788, no one conceived that the states that began with those pioneer homesteads would go on to be the birthplace of the first man who walked on the moon. it's a pretty incredible thing when you think about that whole movement, from the first

settlers to neil armstrong on the moon. in ohio, in its earliest stages, was the frontier state, and frontier kept moving westward, ohio, in so many ways, remains on the frontier, a pioneering leader in entrepreneurship, agriculture, invention, industry, and innovation. from its earliest beginnings and for generations after, ohio has been a place that people wanted to be and a model to which many other states aspired. i would say that, sadly, over time, we kind of lost that edge, and after sometimes times, in a world that seem to be moving on without us, ohio wasn't always able to hold itself up as america's model. take for example -- we have to think about this -- how troubled we were just five short years ago. our budget was busted, our reserves were empty, and the credit outlook was in the tank. we had an ineffective economic

development program, high taxes, heavy-handed regulation, and we had lost 350,000 jobs. that is 350,000 families that really got bad news. and we were $8 billion in the hole. and as you know, i have done a bit of traveling in recent months here in ohio and a few other places, and in many places, i've actually met people you know who have been struggling with some of the same challenges we faced right here in our beloved state. i've been grateful to give them hope, by holding up a we have been doing here, how we are getting back on our feet, how we have made progress, all of us, and i mean all of us, by pulling together. that's the funny thing about hope. you know, it's powerful because it can be contagious, and the progress we are making is giving hope not only to ohioans but to many other people across our great country. when of the most important

things we did to get ohio back on track was to get our fiscal house in order with common sense management, sound budgeting, and conservative spending restraints. sometimes it would have been easier to be looser, but my judgment was we needed to remain conservative in our estimates. we went to work cutting taxes by $5 billion, more than any other state. we're streamlining regulations, and mary taylor has done a great job with the common sense initiative to create a jobs friendly climate, and for those businesspeople, particularly small business people, that feel strangled by excessive regulation, you give her a call. you know, the formula is working. fiscal responsibility, commonsense regulations, and of course always looking to cut taxes. and with a prosperity that comes from job creation and economic growth, we have the resources to go further and reach out to those who might otherwise be ignored.

and we should also take into account the fact that because of the prosperity and the additional resources, we have been helping the mentally ill, giving hope to the drug addicted, the disabled, and the working poor. and we should all be proud of that. when folks around the country look at ohio today, they see i think beginning to do a lot of things better. our budget is sound. we have $2 billion in the bank. and ohioans have created more than 417,000 new, private sector jobs, and wages are growing faster than the national average, right here in the buckeye state. [applause] gov. kasich: over the past five years, we have improved opportunities for students in our classrooms, and we are absolutely working to make college more affordable. we're taking on the scourge of addiction, streamlining state

government, and continuing to chip away at taxes and regulations in ways that can continue our economic push into the future. together, all of us, republicans, democrats, across the state, we have actually lifted ohio out of the ditch. we started moving again and we are picking up speed. the state of our state is getting stronger every day, and the outlook is bright and hopeful here in the buckeye state. [cheers and applause] gov. kasich: but make no mistake -- it's not just me behind the wheel. we have all been in this together, and everyone of us are responsible for keeping ohio moving forward toward our goals. and that goal is to build more speed

and strength and sustain it for the long-term, for our children, for everyone's children, and for the generations that follow. we want them to remember us. while state government is taking big steps to tear down barriers and some power back to ohioans, that only means that the real work to push ohio forward is being done by ohioans, and frankly, it is up to ohioans to put their power that we returned to them back to work to keep us moving. the progress we've made and that we must continue to make only happens one person at a time. one community at a time, in every county, all across our state. and that is because the spirit of ohio, just like the spirit of america, is in our families, in our neighborhoods, and in our communities. you see, folks, it's where we live. it's where we work. where we go to school or teach, or where we worship, where we

look after our neighbors and care for others around us who may be lonely. people who may be discouraged or who are hurting. you see, i want you to think about the fact that the spirit of our state is in the people that sit next to us and the people we know at home. i want to look at a few examples. from the earliest age, we take care of them. have times more children access to early instruction than three years ago. [applause] allwe are making sure that early childhood kids can start

kindergarten ready to learn it is a high priority. and there is the great reading guaranteed. because we are making sure that children are not being shuffled along. they have the learning skills they need for the progressively more rigorous material and higher grades. this is great news. even with tougher standards, 94% of third-graders passed the reading guarantee thanks to the hard work of everyone. educators, librarians, and most important families, 94% of third-graders can pass that test. [applause] schools are developing new strategies for identifying students at risk who may drop out. we may need to keep them interested in school. if they have already dropped out we have to help them find a way

to their diploma. we have one of those new diploma holders with us today. hawkins, she graduated without a high school diploma. she had very narrow career options. now she is on a much better track because she made the choice to take ownership of her future and to get that diploma. congratulations, where are you? is she here? ok, jill. have new mentoring efforts underway to motivate and inspire people to provide their purpose. and reach for the stars. folks, we know that mentoring makes a difference. because we see great results in

programs like the cincinnati youth collaborative. 95% of the students graduate from high school. 95% graduate from high school and a system where the average is 63% and 83% go on to college or the military. it was part of the inspiration for our community connectors programs which brings good values to career education in our schools to help shape young people's lives. today community connectors has 115 local partnerships statewide in more than half of ohio counties to help kids conspire -- help kids get inspired about learning about their futures and god-given potential. this was a critical program we passed with a match of three dollars for every dollar. the local people put it in. if you don't have this program involved in york county and schools, let us know. we want every child in

the state of ohio to be mentored and be told about how great they can be and how much they are loved and appreciated. can we do it, please? let's get every kid mentored. [applause] look, right here in marietta, tore the community works mentor seventh and eighth graders, they help to guide them and explore different paths. i want to say to you all here tonight. you think back to who inspired you. might have been your principal, it may have been your coach. for me it was a couple of barbers that cut hair and when i walked by they would come out the door and they yelled johnny , someday, you are going to be something. that was 50 years ago.

i remember loving them for what they did. and ohio means jobs, that website. with it parents, teachers, and others have new kid friendly internet tools to help learn about careers, what the salaries are, and what they have to do to get one of those jobs. more than 120,000 students have used our site to begin exploring careers, direct your constituents to the ohio means jobs. it can change a life. so many people employed in big towns and in rural areas, they tell me one of their top personal concerns is drug abuse and addiction. we talked about it earlier today. the attorney general and i have worked on this for quite a long time. and they backed that up about

their a personal stories about -- about very personal stories about the way drugs have torn apart their own lives. i have met mothers and fathers who get up every day. wondering whether it is all going to come tumbling down. put your self in their shoes for a moment. we have to win this war. here in ohio, we took the battle in earnest five years ago. we are all too well aware that this is not an easy war to win. it cannot happen overnight. it takes a comprehensive community center plan of action, one based on four pillars. based on education, prevention, treatment, and enforcement. and that will not be fought and won by actions we take in

columbus. the frontline of this battle is every farm community across ohio. we do have one powerful tool that is free for any community , any community to use. d startalled sal talking. if you don't already know about it you must learn about it. the name says it all, start talking. we could reduce the likelihood, reduce the likelihood of starting kids down a path of drug addiction by 50%, just by talking to them. many schools and communities are using the resources we have provided them with. schools such as goshen. the city of chillicothe. we can also do more. i am not asking. i am begging our teachers, our parents, our

mentors, taking a minute to have a conversation about the dangers of drug abuse. and to the men and women here tonight, you want to win this battle, do you want to stop drug addiction and drug abuse? and drug deaths in your community? go do it. get out of your comfort sown. you grab a young man or woman and tell them about god's purpose. and if they take these drugs and willp addicted, they obscure or destroy that purpose. let's win this in our great state. but it takes all of us. scourge that we must defeat. and keeping kids off drugs is part of our moral calling to help every ohio and have a -- help every ohio and have a

chance to fulfill their purpose and god-given ability. i believe our number one moral obligation is to foster a course of jobs friendly climate. our next mission is to create quality education and training. ians requiring the skills they need to compete. in a few months ohio will begin adding legislation passed in the last session for ohioans that are just entering the workforce. --se from 16 to 24 euros old 24 years old break into careers and break out of the cycle of poverty. stark counties were early adopters of this new concept. by using common sense to better align job training and human surface efforts, these counties are better able to assess young people's needs and skills. and then they can offer them to training.

to help them get and keep a job. to help them move of the economic ladder. up the economic ladder. we start early, we work with them. we can get great results. we are also eliminating unintended barriers that once discouraged working moms. by making it easier to keep the support for child care. even after they get a better promotion and job, our work truly pays off. [applause] kasich: and a word about medicaid expansion. because i believe it is making a difference. together we have worked hard to improve the system's and accountability so taxpayers get the value they deserve and ohioans get better quality care. for example, more than 330,000

more women in ohio have access to health care. that means they can get healthy, stay healthy, and better participate in the workforce. and expansion has helped our communities address mental health issues and addiction. it is working for our people. [applause] we have also made important progress in improving community and police relations. over the past few years across this nation, we have seen growing tension between communities and police and the divisions have been severe and often times violent. we have always known this had to be dealt with because we won't have safe neighborhoods if there is missed trust between our communities and law enforcement. thanks to your help, i am so proud to say ohio is leading the way. our efforts began when we pulled

together a diverse group of law enforcement as burts -- experts, community leaders throughout the state to recommend strategies for strengthening the bond between our communities and the police. they were a bipartisan group of all philosophies and understood it was not a time for politics. they knew they could not practice politics if they were going to get it right. and they have been able to get it right. so to continue their work, we established an ongoing collaborative to put those recommendations into action. for the first time in our history, ohio now has statewide standards for law enforcement agencies including deadly force and the hiring recruitment of law enforcement personnel. and we are asking our local agencies, our local police departments to start using them.

i am pleased that we already in colde early adopters water, sydni, dinah, and montgomery county. we know there is more to be done and the success depends on the follow-through. for all we have achieved, still more work to do. but for what we have achieved, i am i'm grateful for the leadership of my good friend nina turner and the support of senator sandra williams, representative alicia reece, as well as community leaders, pastors, and law enforcement community. we are a model for what works in this country. and the country would be wise to adopt our model for harmony. for community and collaboration. [applause]

ohio are all areas where is solving tough problems. and it is clear we know how to make things work. my cabinet and i are in the process of coming to the general assembly with new important reforms and initiatives, some of which are already being considered. education and training continue to be priorities. we need to do a better job of connecting ohioans with a wide range of career opportunities open to them. and then we need to find a pathway to a career with the greatest potential and personal satisfaction. if you look at our jobs website, this isns jobs, unbelievable. you will find 170,000 job openings.

i understand 20% of them pay over $80,000 per year. and these are ohio businesses searching for well-trained motivated workers. we need to prepare job seekers from every age for the careers they represent. a powerful resource for helping is ours find their way school guidance counselors. and connect them with the training they need. i'm really a believer in the importance of guidance counselors and think ohio should do even more to support them. guidance counselors are not just an extra set of hands, they can put our young people on a pathway to a lifetime of success. that is why last year ohio standards to

support with a clear vision with career planning. featured local district is adopting their own standards to implement these new supports on counselors by the next school year. towards can even work the apprenticeship requirements that many vocations have. isis another way that ohio strengthening our vocational training efforts and helping students connect with quality employment. we also recommend expanding stem education to all grade levels. of course, we all know the forers in stem stand science, technology, engineering, and math. personally, i like to call it steam education. to add a a for the arts.

anyone that is going to choose a technical career is going to know skills of critical thinking. and we know they are best developed by exposure to the arts. [applause] science, technology, engineering, math, and the arts. arts community -- did you ever think you would see a conservative republican say this? [laughter] but we believe it. these are all essential for success. we also want to give extra support and encouragement to the children of our active duty military families who often must move place to place. that can be hard for students, and our new military family

opportunity scholarship will relief byde giving the children education needs. it is the least we can do to support our country. [applause] and going forward we will study ways to expand it. for many young ohioans their path to a rewarding career requires more than a high school diploma. for others it can mean a college degree. but there is a very big barrier in our way. and it is something i hear everywhere i go. not just here. everywhere i go, not just here, too many young people in america are struggling with the cost of advanced education. we are going after the problem in ohio. attacking the root cause of

high tuition. encouraging colleges to get their cost of doing business under control. we created a task force of talented aterts controlling cost and balancing the bottom line. they are starting to put those recommendations to work. the university of toledo and bow ling green are working together to jointly offer forces that generally have low enforce -- low enrollment. ohio state and cincinnati taken steps to partner with the state. or new construction on their own. we recently brought the general assembly some important new initiatives to pathways to a lower-cost college degree. we are proposing efforts to allow more students the ability to study for three years. at a lower-cost on a community

college campus and then transfer to a four-year university for a final year to earn their degrees. this could cut their costs by 75% in getting this degree. [applause] and let me just say that if we don't begin to control these costs, these four-year schools, many of them will be just a memory. because people will figure out a way to get their education, their credentials at a much lower price. and these colleges and universities are going to have to make very tough decisions. i would like to salute gordon gee one more time. he least the parking lots at ohio state amid a great criticism.

he carried out his plan and he was paid for leasing those facilities one half $1 billion that got put into scholarships. this is the courage and vision that we need across our states. and this goes hand-in-hand with another earlier step we took. with college credit plus programs. think about this one. it gives ohio students the ability to earn credits before they step foot in campus. in one semester alone, these efforts, college credit plus has saved an estimated $50 million for these students across ohio on their college costs. just by doing college credit plus. [applause] and we want to work with you to allow community colleges to offer a limited number of four-year degree programs where we won't have overlaps with other schools. so students can earn a degree at

lower costs and can meet needs of local industries. if we want to make it easier to earn a college degree we need to keep in mind those adult learners. most often those who have already built up considerable knowledge. and hands-on experience in their field. and they probably knew enough to teach some of the courses. and they should nafta paid to sit through hours in the classroom. -- they should not have to pay to sit through hours in the classroom. so we want to give these folks a way to use what they have learned to earn their college degrees more quickly. so in last year's budget, we two and four-year institution to have strong career advisors in place i december. when our kids hit higher education in the state they should have summary that guys than all the way through to get them their degree. and a job that is available once they graduate college.

we need to do this. [applause] lorrain county community college, edison state, they made a lot of progress in this area. miami, university of cincinnati, just with guidance counselors and k-12. higher education advisors for students is a priority. and the schools are going to do this. the important work we are setting into motion across the higher education system, especially on affordability will prepare ohioans for strong futures. we have more work to do and we must do it. we are proud to hold up our progress to other states as a model that they can all learn from us. these new reforms and proposals we're bringing you will build in on the success of the programs we have made together. over the past five years. and in fact, i am sending the people around this country the recommendations of our cost-cutting commission then i think can help attack this

problem and solve some of this across our country. our economic growth is increasing both the number of jobs available as well as the types of jobs available. if you ask people about ohio, many times they will say it is the football team. or agriculture or steel. it has always been our goal to bring about a significant broadening of the base. and we have seen that in some of the positions that have been created by some ohio's employers. think about this. amazon. three investments in the state, including wilmington. how about automotive glassmaker, they talk about losing jobs, the chinese have now over 1000 ohioans. and biotech companies enable injections. assurance health. i discussed earlier cutting

taxes is an important part of creating this job friendly economy. we cut taxes by 5 million. more than any other state in the country. but there is more we have to do. you, thei will send general assembly, legislation to let ohioans keep more of their hard-earned money by accelerating the benefit of income tax cuts. the money is there. we already passed it. there is no reason to wait. [applause] i say to my friends, the democrats, we already passed it. i am not asking you to buy into the philosophy on this. i think we can do this together because there isn't any real we

wait. we can apply these to family finances and ohio's economy right now. i do appreciate the legislatures tax study committee. i look for to seen the recommendations that will come down the road. but we are going to come with another comprehensive tax reform package early next year with more tax relief and reforms to better align our tax code with the way ohio works in today's economy. and that fundamentally means lower income taxes. [applause] ok? you know, while we have worked to cut taxes and restrain economic growth in the government. we haven't left other areas of focus behind. i am a firm believer that economic growth and protection of our natural resources can go hand in hand. we continue to invest significant money into our state parks, and we have spent more.

[applause] thank you, keith. [laughter] and we have spent more. get this number. we have spent more than $3.5 billion in order to improve water quality from lake erie to the ohio river. $3.5 billion. [applause] the quality, the well-being and beauty of our natural environment are an essential part of a jobs friendly business environment we want to maintain and grow. of course, it is also essential to the success of our $40 billion travel and tourism industry. and all the local businesses that depend on tourism, it is such a very important part of the local economy, isn't it governor?

it is a very big part. we just launched an impressive new marketing campaign to strengthen ohio's brands as an attractive demonstration. and as ohio continues to benefit from the growing shale industry, we will need to keep pace with the industry's innovation by proposing updates that support its continued success and ensure we remain one of the nation's leaders in protecting public health and safety, as well as the environment. you know, i spoke a few minutes ago about the epidemic of drug addiction. particularly, prescription drug abuse. it has infected every moment of society. fighting this battle takes everything we've got and attacking it from every angle. that comprehensive approach is the best for ohio cost strategy. a big part is the medical community. and with the help of doctors, we have tightened up guidelines to make sure people can get the pain relief that they need, but

not more than what they need. the number of prescriptions for pain medicine has gone down 12%. and over the past four years with tighter controls, dr. as -- hasy patience fallen dramatically by 70% in the last five years. [applause] we know that ohio's pharmacies are key players. and not just pharmacists, but also the thousands of pharmacy technicians that work side-by-side with them. right now however, we have no uniform standards or requirements for them. we need to join other states who register pharmacy technicians to make sure they receive the ongoing training and education that can help identify and prevent opiate abuse. and which also allows ohio to identify bad actors. at the same time we need to limit dispensing of painkiller prescriptions to 90 days.

and invalidate any prescription that has not been issued in 30 days and ensure that drug clinics are tong best practices not perpetuate their addiction. these and other proposals we were bring you this spring will provide additional tools to improve the places we live. these like the other tools we have provided are only valuable if they are put to work. ofi said earlier, the spirit our state is in our communities. the more that each of us as a chance to contribute to crafting our future with a stronger it will be. from thet benefits

talents we all bring to the table. making sure we all have a chance to contribute and that we all have a voice is why we came together last year across party lines to reform the way ohio's legislative districts are drawn. our goal was the right one. to make the process less about politics and more about inclusion. we need to go further however, which is why i am calling on the general assembly to look at how we make the same kind of reforms to the way ohio draws its congressional districts. [applause] gov. kasich: ideas and merits should be what wins election, not gerrymandering. when pure politics is what drives these kinds of decisions, the result is polarization and division. i think we have had enough of it. gerrymandering needs to be on the dustbin of history. [applause] you know, we can solve so many of life's problems by working person-to-person, neighbor to neighbor, by coming together. that is where the best solutions come from. when instead of looking to government to do things for us

, we use the tools and gifts we each have and take control of our lives. yes, i know that government can create an environment for success and tear down barriers. but in the end, responsibility for our lives and the strength of our community lies with what we do. i happen to believe that we much strive to livech a life bigger than ourselves, to take our special guests that the board has given us. -- the lord of has given us. he has given us these gifts to live a life bigger than ourselves. for purposes of healing this world. all unique and varied. together, they form the mosaic that makes our state and our country so resilient. i have had the opportunity, as i have traveled the country, by the grace of god, to be able to look people in the eye. and remind them that they're made special. all of us, unique.

all of us, created for a purpose. to literally live a life bigger than ourselves, and to make a commitment to lift, to heal the world. that is what is expected to us, of us, i believe, when we were created. no one has ever been made like us before. no one will ever be like us again. we are here at a unique moment of time. and we find satisfaction and light, when we ignore some of the silliness, the fighting, the division, the ego, the turf protection. because when we do our job, when we are a teacher that would give up a salary because we are

changing the young life, we are changing the world. when we are a physician, and we make that call at 1:00 in the morning, we are changing the world. when we are a nurse, and when the time for us to stop, we filled our role in the job, yet we spend 20 more minutes to reassure a family that things are going to be ok. and up in westerville the other day, i saw a custodian. i said, you are special. you know how i know that? he said, yeah, i know how you know it. you know those kids will tell me that they will never tell anybody else. and i will take care of them. and even taking that widow -- that i like to talk about, she is 50 years old. she has been married for 50 years. lost her husband, her phone does not ring anymore. you call her on monday and say we going to dinner this weekend.

you know, what he does on thursday? she gets her hair done. and by saturday, it is still all in place. and when you pick her up, she wears that dress she has not worn in six months. did you change the world? i think you did. i have always been so inspired by people who understand this. and they live lives bigger than almost all of us. that is how i got this whole idea of the governor's courage awards, to recognize those ohioans, hold them up as models from which we can all learn. one such person is margot hudson, a longtime cleveland resident who grew on the south side of chicago. she had it tough. no stranger to the hard knocks of life. without a high school diploma,

think about it, she struggled for years. from job to job that did not pay much of anything, but well into adulthood, she was inspired to go after her high school equivalency. it took her 11 tries. but she stayed at it. she did not get discouraged. and she finally prevailed. now, with her ged certificate, margot, believe it or not, is an active tutor and a mentor for young clevelanders, also seeking a second chance to earn their diplomas. she is an enthusiastic champion for the power of adult learning. margot has been honored by the commission on adult basic education at the 2016 national adult learner of the year. her courage is inspiring.

and i am proud to present her with the governor's courage award this year. margot? [applause] gov. kasich: that is beautiful. can i put it on you? congratulations. hug? ok. [applause] ok. kasich: wallace peck of columbus is an exceptionally talented artist, who has overcome significant developmental disabilities.

significant developmental disabilities and personal challenges, including homelessness. health problems and an upbringing with little support, or very little education. through all this, and with the support of some equally remarkable friends and volunteers, wallace has become one of ohio's most honored and self-taught artist. they are primarily of people, especially ones he knows. but also wildlife and nature, colors all his own to explore the joys. my wife stuck all of your work in the governor's residence. so you know. [laughter] ok? his most recent exhibit sold out in a single night. it is a testament that has won the appreciation.

in fact, the columbus museum of art purchased a painting for the permanent collection. for his life of courage, perseverance, and positive outlook, after so many years living in the shadows of society, i am proud to award wallace the governor's courage governor's courage award accompanied by the first lady. [applause]