When my country called me at the end of my degree, i answered the call, and and listed in the nited states army. I was taught to be a soldier at four campbell, kentucky. I was taught to be an intelligent agent in arizona. I learned at that point what the enemy was all about, their adversaries, and how to understand them. I was then sent to the Defense Language Institute and taught german. I was assigned to be an intelligence agent and west germany on the behalf of nato. I was there, in europe, for my country and my allies. I might mention to you that one of the other people in this race is lindsey graham, who is also a veteran. He is running an ad that he is the only veteran in the race. I have called on senator graham to withdraw that ad. We are both veterans. I went to law school on the g. I. Ill. After returning to richmond, i was elected to be chief prosecutor, attorney general of virginia, governor of irginia. When i became governor, i removed the car tax, and cap my ord. Hat is what people are looking for today, someone to go into office and do what they promised to do. The 999, i was asked by department of defense to chair the commission on weapons of mass destruction because the congress wanted to know where we were. I want you to know that in 1999, 2000, and 2001, we warned specifically that an attack on the United States homeland was highly probable. And, the action was necessary to protect this country. At that time, we discussed the fact that the border was not secure. We discussed the fact that our freedoms needed to be maintained in the United States, even in a time of crisis, and that we would always keep our commitment to freedom, liberty, safety. Now, we have challenges. We have challenges that we are facing in this country, for example, the illegal immigration issue that has been brought p. I want you to know, ladies and gentlemen many of you may not like what im going to say we, as a republican seem to be on the attack against the latino community. We seem to be expressing attacks on the constitution when we threaten to take away birthright citizenship in this country. Yesterday, donald trump proposed a federal Deportation Force to rip up our society, at the very time that we need unity. I will you to know, this is fascist talk, and unworthy of the Great Republican Party of the United States. It may be acceptable to some people, but it is not acceptable to me. Abraham lincoln called on us as americans and republicans to be the better angels of our nature. I, for one, will not listen to ur worst demons. I will be wanting to know what the people of florida, and republicans of florida want. Ill be tough on drugs. I was a strong education governor. I do not believe in common core. On the gun issue, i am a member of the board of directors of the National Rifle association. I believe in gun rights. I will tell you what i will do, if you, in this room, and all of your friends and colleagues in florida picked me on your ballot. What i will do is i will change washington, d. C. To restore our place in the world. I will do that. We have to call the enemy what it is. T is radical islamism. That is the enemy of this country. We do not need to be lured into condemning all muslims among us that are loyal to the United States because they exist. We must be resolute against the doctrine that the heads people, bernstein will alive, and slaves women and children, and attacks innocent people in places like paris. We will be resolute. Our president has failed. Weakness is provocative. Paris is only the beginning. As obama, i have watched him closely. When he first became president , he went to egypt and apologized for this country, and send that message into the middle ast. They went to west point and said, dont worry, you are not going to be put into any kind of conflicts in the future, which i thought was a terrible message from the commander in chief. Then, he went to the National Prayer breakfast and said, dont orget, the christians during the crusade were just as bad. I said, at the time, that was the worst thing i had ever heard of president of the United States ever say. [applause] dont forget, the people of the leftwing of this country, they heard me say that, and they knew the i said that. This is an uncertain voice that has now led to confrontation between us, confrontation with the iranians, who now have a deal that almost ensures them a Nuclear Weapon in the middle ast, and finally, this new mexico war which is rising as we saw last night. Weakness is provocative in the world today. Hillary clintons leadership has failed too. Hillary clinton, who is sliding away from her responsibility in the disillusionment of libya. Hillary clinton who was for the keystone pipeline, and who is ow against it. Hillary clinton who was operating her foundation at the same time she was secretary of date with foreign people that she was talking to. Er emails were deleted. That led me, in this past april, to say that Hillary Clinton could never do her job of restoring trust with the American People. Therefore, Hillary Clinton is disqualified from the race for president of the united tates. [applause] if you, in this room, will start to tell the pollsters it all seems to be about pulling that you are for jim gilmore. If you will pick me, if you will elect me in your primary as president of the United States, i promise you i will bring a certain voice to this country, and i will bring real experience that has authority behind that voice. Real experience. Not as an insider in the congress, but as somebody who actually run a state, and has real experiences as a veteran, and real experience in Foreign Policy the other candidates simply do not have. I will take the lid off the defense budget, and we will begin to restore americas military strength. E will rebuild our navy, which keeps the ceilings open and protects us here and we will rebuild the army which has been so unfitted because of the wars we have had to do overseas. We will add another combat brigade to the United States marines. Ladies and gentlemen, we will stand with our allies, and restore americas position in the world. [applause] now is the time, the critical time, after the critical experience we have seen last night. Now is the time for certain eadership. America must sound a certain trumpet at this critical moment when so much is at stake across the world. You have to have a president who will speak for the righteousness of our nation. And, talk to people across the world about the justification of the justice of america. I did that when i was a simple soldier in europe as an intelligence agent there talking to our german allies. I spoke of our country. I never felt like i was an occupier when i was serving overseas for this country. I felt that i was a soldier standing on the ramparts of liberty. That is where we all are. Assure you. We are, believe me, an exceptional nation. Ive seen countries all across his world. I visited 18 countries. I visited afghanistan, israel, croatia. I lived in europe on behalf of our country. I know the world. And i know this. The United States of america is not only the exceptional nation of the world, it is understood o be such. We have no reason to apologize for the justice and righteousness of the American People. [applause] so, what i say to you now is in the face of what we saw last night, and what we have seen in the past, this is a crucial time. It is no time to put an experienced amateurs in the white house. Promise you that. In the meanwhile, with American Leadership, the 21st century is not destined to to send into savagery or barbarism. It is not destined to do hat. With American Leadership and american exceptionalism, we will lead the way for century into a time of liberty, decency, and an lignment enlightenment. And advancement. If you choose me to be a president , i will provide that leadership. Im asking for your vote. Thank you very much for the chance to be here today. [applause] thank you. Mr. Jindal thank you all very, very much. Thank you. Thank you all for that very warm welcome. Thank you very much. What an honor to be here with you tonight, today, this morning. This is the most important election of our lifetimes. But even before i start, i want to talk about one thing before i even get to my remarks. I want to talk about something that happened this week. I just feel the need i want to talk to about Donald Trumps nsane comments about dr. Carson. Look, i am all for vigorous debate. Those of you that watch the debate know that i went after some of my fellow republicans for being big government, big spending republicans. But when we have a republican talking about it doesnt even matter if he is talking about another republican, we have a candidate talking about somebody lse, and he manages to use the words child molester. I thought at first maybe this was a saturday night live sketch. Then i realized he was serious and he gets mad at the voters of iowa. There is a line we should not cross. [applause] you may like dr. Carson, you may not like dr. Carson. You may be thinking about voting for him, you may not vote for him. Look, i hope you vote for me, quite honestly. But whatever you think about dr. Carson, there is a point at which we have to say enough is nough. We will not bear false witness gainst each other. And that is where we need to draw this line. Now, speaking about these days, the media loves to say who is up, who is down. Look, i will leave it to you to decide who one, won, who lost those debates. I want to talk about this for a few minutes. One of the things that is losing is the First Amendment to the onstitution. You know what i mean by that . Let me give you two examples. Look at what is happening on the campus of the university of missouri. I dont pretend to know all the details, and i am against racism in any shape, form, size, instanced, but lets look at the Political Correctness that has aken shape at this university. I feel bad for the students. I thought universities were supposed to be places where they were taught competing ideas. Instead the students are now being taught they should be protected from any kind of ideas hey disagree with. These are going to be the future leaders. Can you imagine them sitting across the table at negotiating with the chinese or the iranians . Are they going to demand safe zones . A they going to demand certain words not be used in most discussions . We sought in New Hampshire, they were told to get use the word american. That is politically that political he and correct politically incorrect nonsense has to stop. [applause] president obama has worked overtime to try and teach us that we are all victims. That is not the american way. Our kids have to learn how to stand up for themselves. They have to learn about a robust debate of ideas. If they disagree, they should have to debate and defend their ideas. Where do they learn how the will world the real world works . We are losing not only our freedom of speech rights, but we are losing our First Amendment religious rights as well. Youve got to the left now try to take god out of the public square. You have a principal up in northwest louisiana, the aclu went after them for simply saying, god bless you, to some parents. They are being told they cant follow their conscience. They have to choose between operating their businesses or ollowing their conscience when it comes to traditional marriage. Enough is enough. There is no freedom of speech without our religious liberty rights. Lets say this slowly so even Hillary Clinton can understand this. The United States of america did not create religious liberty. Religious liberty created the United States of america. Cheers and applause] these on the left need to understand they dont have a right not to be offended. They do have the right to the same freedoms that you and i work for ourselves. The quicker off they learn that, the better off they will be and the better america will be. I came to talk to about why this is such an important election. I have asked audiences i have been all over the country campaigning i asked people what you think is the worst thing president obama has done o our country . The best answer i have gotten is, he took the oath of office s president. But if you really try to answer hat question, we can spend all morning talking about the 18 trillion of debt, about the epa trying to regulate the water in our backyards, about planned parenthood selling baby parts across this country, record low Participation Rate in the workforce, a Foreign Policy where we want stand with israel, and a truce with iran, which makes no sense to me at all. But one of the worst things this president is trying to do, he is trying to change the very idea of america. Every time you listen to him speak, it is all about redistribution, taxes, borrowing. The American Dream is not to have the government take care of you. My parents came here almost 45 years ago in search of freedom and opportunity. Back then, they had never been on a plane before. They had never visited america before. They didnt even know anybody who had been to louisiana. To come back and tell them whats the like. And they came anyway. My kids dont understand this, but there was no google. You couldnt look at up back i ind then either. [laughter] my mom was pregnant with me and they left behind their friends, their parents, their families. They came for the idea of freedom and opportunity. They were coming for the American Dream. My mom, she went to school at lsu. My dad, he came here to work. Got his first job literally calling companies out of the ellow pages. When i was born a few months later, i was what you would politely call a preexisting condition. [laughter] my parents insurance didnt cover me. He went to that doctor at a womans hospital. No government forms, no insurance. He simply said to that doctor, i want to send you a check every month until i pay this bill in full. [applause] that is how we used to do things in america. I dont know how that would work today. I asked my dad, how do you pay for a baby on layaway . [laughter] if you skip a payment, do they take the baby back . He said you were such a bad little baby we would have skipped a payment on purpose just to send you back. No, you are paid for, dont worry about it. I tell you that because my parents came here and chased the American Dream. They have lived the american team. And this is what this election is really about. I we going to fight for the American Dream for ourselves and our children, or are we going to let this country go down the path of socialism . That is why this is the most important election of our lifetimes. I want to talk to you about how my parents came here. When they came to this country, they came to this country legally. Cheers and applause] lets talk about immigration. A smart immigration policy makes our country stronger. A dumb immigration policy makes our country weaker. And today we have got a dumb mmigration policy. How do we fix it . E dont need a comprehensive approach, we dont need a thousand page bill, the first thing we need to do is we need to secure our border once and for all. We need to stop talking about it. We can get this done in six months if we were serious about t. It wouldnt be perfect, but we can get it done in six months. The reality is we know why the left doesnt want to do it, but there are also a lot of republicans in d. C. Who dont want to do it. They want groups who want open borders and common core, and they threaten these republicans, saying if you dont do what we nt, we went support your campaigns. We also have to put an end to sanctuary cities. [cheers and applause] cheers and applause] i do know i know Congress Wants to defund them. That doesnt go far enough. I have a package that would say to these mayors and councilman, if you want to break the federal law, we will hold you criminally responsible. Hold them as accessories to these crimes committed by people who shouldnt be here in the first place. If you locked up if you mayors, i bet you wouldnt have sanctuary cities anymore in america. Generations of great strength of america has been a melting pot. The left says that is politically incorrect. That is xenophobia can culturally arrogant. Instead we should be the salad bowl. That is the dumbest thing ive heard in a long time. Plus, we dont make anybody come here. If somebody doesnt want to be an american, dont come to america. Cheers and applause] and dont use our freedoms to undermine the same freedoms we give to everybody. Im tired of this divider in chief in the white house. Folks, we are not african, we are not asianamericans, we are not rich or poor americans, we are all americans united as one. Cheers and applause] lets be honest, this is what a smart immigration policy looks like. If you want to come to america, legally. Learn english, adopt our values. When you get here, roll up your sleeves and get to work. That is what a smart policy looks like. I have said something about immigration a couple months ago that made Hillary Clinton upset. So i have decided to say it again and again as often as i can. This is what i said, a very important point. Immigration with immigration, we must insist on assimilation and immigration. Lets be honest, assimilation without integration is not immigration. That is an invasion. That is what we see happening in europe. E must not let that happen here. Youve got youve got second, Third Generation immigrants in europe that dont consider themselves parts of that country or societies or values. Folks, we must not let that happen here. This melting pot has been a great strength of america for a long time. I wan