Good morning. You have heard from the leader of the free world. The Senate Majority leader marco rubio. Ted cruz. Congressman mark meadows. One of the heroes of our movement. We are just getting started. You are going to hear from former members of the cabinet. Heroes of our calls. Senators and congressmen. It is my great privilege to kick off the morning with a man who was truly one of the most articulate and one of the most courageous defenders of faith and freedom in america today. Is a dear friend of this organization. His personal story i think is one of the most inspiring of our time. A man who grew up in poverty. A man who many statistically would have consigned to a life of hopelessness. And deprivation. Instead, he rose to a point where he graduated from the university. University of michigan law school. We are glad you are a doctor. I can say that as the son of a medical doctor. For nearly 30 years, he was the director of pediatric neurosurgery. They were joined at the had. He is the bestselling author of nine books. He has been involved in christian and faithbased charity. And activities. Long before he was known nationally. For many of us, the moment when god really raised him up. To be such an influential leader in our society was in 2013 when he get that incredible speech. Have you seen this . I do not know what i enjoyed more. The substance of his remarks or the look on Barack Obamas face as he was delivering them. I think the last thing i had that much fun was when Mother Teresa talked about the issue of life when bill clinton was at that same process. Today he is the secretary of housing and urban development. I believe im correct in saying that he was the first one of the candidates out of the field to endorse donald trump in 2016. Right before the florida primary. Even more than that he is our brother in the lord and our friend. Please welcome doctor ben carson. Thank you so much. It is wonderful being here with you again. I just wanted to talk a little bit this morning about courage. It is really what helped establish this country. Has so much to do with so many things that have been in my life. I remember specifically one particular case. People developed these tumors. Throughout their nervous system. The young man who developed one right in the middle of his princeton. Was in our area. None of the adults wanted to operate on him. It turns out unfortunately for me that his wife was a pediatric nurse. We cannot escape her. She kept saying you have to operate on my husband. Said im a pediatric nurse. She said he acts like a child. She wore me down. I said i will talk to him. I said you know, if operate on this tumor, there is at least a 50 chance that you will die on the table. He said, if you do not operate, there is a 100 percent chance that i will die. Said that sounds pretty mature. I took him to the operating room. We got down to the brainstem area. Is full of abnormal blood vessels. I opened the very time the whole in the side. In the area dry, figure the tumor was just a centimeter in from there. Then used the small print. Something felt a little different in consistency. Put in my little instrument. Started pulling it out and trying to deliver. The brainstem was like a cable. Everything was essential. As we were delivering the tumor, the potatoes man fly. That is like the ekg for the brand. The anesthesiologist said you may as well stop. You killed him. Hes dad. The anesthesiologist was against the operation. We just continue. With close to my. He went back to the icu on life support. When i came in the next morning, he had been excavated. He was sitting up in the bed telling jokes. It took a lot of courage to do the operation. That happened to me a lot of times during the course of my career. It was not because i was all that great. It was because i was asked god for guidance. That is where real courage confront. It does not come from within me. It comes from god and knowing who has all the power. That guided me in life. From medicine to politics. Does not maybe i became a politician. I hope to god and never become one. After that, was saying you should run for president. That is the last thing in the world i want to do. Everyplace i want there were people that run. They had over 500,000. I could barely get my foot in there. Finally said, this is not something that particularly appeals to me. To recognize the people who run for president , they have it organization. To have a rolodex of all of the names. Big campaign chest. I do not have any investor. Nor do i intend to develop it. If you want me to do this, you have to supply all of the staff. Listing i knew i had it organization. Raising more money a month. It was ridiculous. As i enter that field, where the courage came in. I knew what it would mean. In our society, for some people on the other side, the only thing worse than satan is a black conservative. Blacks are supposed to think a certain way. If you do not think that way, your uncle tom. To me, know that sounds like . Racism. I knew i would be attacked. I will go from being a hero to the goat. I knew i would take a big cut in income. All of these things would happen. I started thinking, what of all the other people who preceded me helped make this into a great country had taken that attitude. Where we would be . Some of us does have to go out there and we have to just ask god, what would you have me do. As for the wisdom to do it. Not worry about the consequences. God will take care of the consequences. What we have is a country where we do not guarantee people anything. We advocate for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all people. When we have strayed from those things, that is what we have gotten in trouble. When it comes to liberty, we as a nation made a huge mistake with slavery. There is no question about it. What the wise people do . They learn from their mistakes. There are a lot of things we can learn from. One of the things i learned from it, people who were slave owners thought that they owned the slaves. It was their property. They could do anything they wanted to them. Beat them, rape them, or children. It was okay. Because it belonged to them. There were others who said, that is abominable. There is no way i can participate in that. Then there were those. The abolitionist. This is not only cannot participate in it, i have to stand up for those who are being killed. Being in slave. I wish to be prochoice. I said i do not believe in abortion. We are not going to stop anybody else doing what they wanted to. Where we would be the abolitionist felt that way. Those lives of the slaves were imported. The loss of our little babies are important. Is a pediatric surgeon, operating on lots of babies. They were premature. 28 weeks. I asked the aclu. I said, would you advocate for babies that are still in the mothers womb . He said to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves. This cannot speak for themselves. That said i cannot do that. I said what about the ones who are premature. 27 weeks. There in incubator. No problem. Said, the one that is in the safest place they can possibly be, you cannot advocate for. Is that i know it does not make much sense. I believe a woman can kill that baby until the moment it is borne. I said would you say that in public he said no. Now, they will actually say in public. This is where our society has gone. This is where the values have gone. Human life that is viable. Outside of the wound. They make it into the issue of womens rights. It has nothing to do with womens rights. It has to do with dignity of human rights. We have a creator who was wise enough to recognize that there is no more sacred bond. Between that and mother and a child. They have perverted that bond into something that becomes evil. This is something that is horrible. Something i have the right to kill. How did we as a society get to that point . We have to be willing to talk about these things. To stand up for people. That have resulted in this becoming the nation that it has become. A lot of people criticize our nation. The rich are ruining everything. This group is ruining everything. If we are so horrible, why do people try to get here . Think about that. We are compassionate people. What is compassion . Compassion is being fit to everybody. Not picking one specific group. Saying their rights trump everybody else. Everybody gets equal rights but nobody gets extra rights. That is something that characterizes a fair nation. When it comes to the pursuit of happiness, is about creating opportunities for people. It is not about guaranteeing people anything. Free this and free that. Newsflash. It is not free. Somebody has to pay for. This whole thing. You may remember. I said is the fairest individual in the universe. Gods. What did he say . He said i want to tithe. He did not say give me a triple time. He did not say you owe me anything. 10 percent. You make 1 billion. You pay 100 million. Me 10 to pay one. How is that complex . It is only when people start ejecting their own opinions that it becomes complex. We make all these things complex. Being fair to our children. To our grandchildren. Not giving them untold debt to have to pay all. That will severely compromise the quality of their lives. We have to be thinking about that. Helping others. That is what we do. People of faith. There were people who restart it me. They realized what our financial situation was. I remember some of the teachers who were concerned about my welfare. After i had gotten over being a dummy and i was at the top of the class, i was in the band. Played baritone. I was really good if i do say so myself. I was offered a scholarship to interlock. Those to know how significant that is. The first person in my hospital to have her do that. He said, do not accept that scholarship. Is is because youre going to be a great doctor. He was concerned about me. I remember ms. Miller. The english teacher. I started getting off track. All those things help me. Giving people opportunity. That is what people affected. They say all manner of things against us. If we do the same thing, if everybody gets in the mud pit, all you end up with is a bunch of dirty people. That is not going to be helpful to us as a country. Someone has to be the adult. We realize that we are not each others enemies. Some people act that way and try to divide us. Lets not allow that to happen. Most importantly, lets not allow anybody to suppress our faith in god. When i came into government, people said to me, you need to stop talking about god so much. I said that is not happening. That is a very important part of who i am. People who say stuff like that, they realize that our founding doctrine talks about certain alienable rights given to us by our creator. The pledge of allegiance to our flag says we are one nation under god. The many courtrooms on the wall says in god we trust. Every point in our pocket says in god we trust. It is in our pledge and our courts and on the money we are not supposed to talk about it. What is that . Schizophrenia. What we need to realize is that our country is based on Judeo Christian principles. We must be willing to stand up for those principles. The only way we can be the land of the free is if we are the home of the brave. Thank you very much. Good to see you. The morning. What an honor to be here with great americans. I am so honored to get to be here with you. Concerned women for america is the nations largest Public Policy organization for women. We are prolife. And a second and talk about last night . What is up with the Democratic Party . 20 people running that are extremist. I do not understand. They are leading with the idea of free stuff by forcing hard working americans. They have done everything right. They go to work every day. Theyre going to have to take away their money from their paycheck to reward people who are not even legal citizens . I do not understand. That does not sound like a winning proposition to me. I understand how hard people work. How important the money is to them. How they work so hard for the opportunity for their children. How much they love their country. The issue of abortion. 20 extremist that have basically said, abortion should be legal at any time for any reason. All paid for by you. Birthday abortion is just fine with them. That is what they have said to us. That is not in touch with what they believed. It is not in touch with the vast majority of American People. Let me just back up and say. I want to give one little piece of unsolicited advice. When are you going to throw planned parenthood overboard. They are dragging you down. Every bit of what youre hearing comes from the planned parenthoods playbook. Half 1 billion being spent of our money for planned parenthood , we are seeing it come back to us. We are seeing it come back to us through the word of these politicians. I want to talk to you today and introduce to you a politician who want to think about her, they were courageous comes to mind. She is the antipathies of which is on this stage last night. In november 2014, he was elected as the first woman to serve in federal office from the great state of iowa. She also became the first female combat veteran elected to serve in the United States senate. She has her undergraduate degree from iowa state. She served in the army reserve. In 2003, she served as a Company Commander in kuwait and iraq leading 150 National Guardsmen during Operation Iraqi freedom. She retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in the National Guard having served 23 years. When i think about courage, it is not just effect. She is a woman warrior. She has continued to be a warrior on behalf of the issue of life. She told how strong she was. I will never forget it. Is a brandnew freshman senator, first year, she led on the funding planned parenthood. Usually people who want to take on a Firm Position want to take on the abortion. They are not movies. I called her and said, i am so grateful. I am so impressed you are so courageous as a brandnew senator that youre willing to lean on this issue. She said to me was so telling. She said, how could i not . I cannot stand up to the least of these. This is why i was elected. I was not elected to sit on the sideline. I was elected to lead and represent my constituents and protect life. She has never wavered from that position for one moment. We prayed together and decimated our relationship. She not only serves on the Armed Services committee but she also serves on the Senate Judiciary committee. It means that she will be in all those hearings coming forward on judicial nominees. On the court. Perhaps even another Supreme Court nominee sunday. We need her there. This is what i wanted to know. She is a woman of faith. She is a woman who sits on behalf of life. She is a courageous warrior. There you go. This tells you all you need to know. I want to welcome to the stage, my friend, senator from the great state of iowa. A big thank you of course. Thank you so much for your love and your friendship these many years. A big thank you to faith and Freedom Coalition for putting this great conference together. When im looking out across this room, i see so many faces. It is a little dark out there. I can see some of your faces. I know those faces are the faces of passionate men and women who are fighting hard to defend our freedom. Our values and basically put our way of life. You are the voice for religious liberty. For conservatism. For love of country. For the most vulnerable. Is pretty much in. In our society. You understand and live by the truth that we are one nation under god. Someone who grew up in small town iowa. With the importance of faith was the bedrock of our community. I am concerned about the radicalized agenda that we see from the people on the far left. Continues to make its way in our communities. Our homes and our families. Not the least of which is the attack on our unborn. Of the past year, we have witnessed the hideous truth about the farreaching grasp of the abortion industry. Its increasingly ugly. Political agenda. Politicians have not only defended aborting the child while a woman is in labor, they have gone so far as to support the termination of a child after its birth. Earlier this year, on the floor of the senate, we considered a bill. One that i proudly supported. That will put a end to it. Guess what happened . What do you think happened . The Senate Democrats blocked it. They brought the bill that would end infanticide. Rationality. Decency and basic human compassion have fallen by the wayside. We have moved beyond all, since. When our most body, the United States senate can no longer unanimously condemn murder. This assault on Human Dignity cannot stand. At the federal level, we are working hard to stop any taxpayer dollars from going to planned parenthood. Taxpayers should not be forced to foot the bill of half 1 billion annually for an organization that exhibits such disrespect and absolute disregard for human life. This year we also held a pro life hearing in the judiciary committee. Follow that with the Committee Votes on the unborn Child Protection act. That would prevent a child from being aborted after five months of development. The time when these precious babies can feel pain in the womb. Does last year, we asked the Trump Administration to issue new title x rules and restore Family Planning regulation. Almost immediately, the Trump Administration issued a new proposal to redirect funding from abortion providers to clinics that serve mothers and babies. That is because this administration is prolife. Like me, President Trump is not just caring for life in the world. Is with us in congress to make sure our new babies and adopted children are taken care of by making paid parental leave a party. Right now, the economy is booming. We can see that. This booming economy means that more people are also getting out into our work. This means that more moms and dads are trying to balance the realities of caring for a new child while also putting food on the table. I so often hear this from our parents and our Small Business owners simply cannot afford to provide the option of paid parental leave. I think it is past time that hardworking pare