True. We had best positioned country the world in the 21st century did the reason there is anger and apprehension is that most people dont feel it yet. We have got to do that. We have to deal with these problems. Hillary will talk about them. Theyre driving us apart, when we automate together ought to be coming together. We need politics that are not just for people who have unlimited money. [applause] we need a strong commanderinchief and she will be great. I need to tell you about something that i know about this job. Things that other people dont talk about in that she cant really talk about. There are certain, almost intangible qualities to determine whether president succeeds or not. There are some qualities that are more important sometimes than others. In world where the borders look wallsike nets than and the fight of terrorism has been carried on in social media, awnque bronze you need br and brains at the same time. But there are two things you need to know. Right now, with all the people have been through and as long as they have waited for the economy to pick up, for the social issues to be addressed, as long , theey have been discussed washington, you need somebody who wont quit on you. Somebody who will quit when the going gets tough. Wont quit when the going gets tough. Somebody whose door is always open and will lead common ground. That. She is the best at [applause] pres. Clinton i knew that when i met her. She was famous for standing her ground as the First Student speaker at her commencement. But you, i respect you, need a change of position on the vietnam war. It made her famous, it did. When she went to represent the United States and one of the two or three most important speeches anybody in my administration, including me, in 1995 in beijing, the chinese knew what she was going to say. They moved her speech way out into the country. There was a driving rainstorm. People came in sopping wet from all over the world. She still got up and said that womens rights are human rights. We can move the world. [applause] but she also knows how to find common ground. She was in the white house with me, a senator from new york, secretary of state, she ran sanctions. These republicans all the things with her. They dont want to have to deal with the fact that she will make everybody be the grown up in the room and do what is right for america. Over and over again, she got people to work with her on things that were right. Because it was the right thing to do. You knew that. The thing we need after this gridlock is a change maker. Everybody talks about it. Not everyone can do it. From the minute i better to this day from the minute i met ago from march, she has been the single greatest change maker i know. Why her best friend from childhood and a bunch of childhood buddies from illinois are canvassing for her. Them. Uck with they are sticking with her. A lot of them can barely afford it. Because she in her stuck with them and made things better. So, whether it was improving our schools or giving us our first preschools for poor kids and giving them thousands and giving thousands of people , increasing adoptions on foster homes by 65 in the white with the leader of the Republican Caucus in the house, who disliked me more than anybody else in congress, she said, i know you love your kids, we have to do something. Been,place she has ever she made better. She always makes something good happen. I am tired, as i know you are, of all this gridlock. Everything the president has said is right. We have an unbelievable future and we have to seize it. Who alwaysspeaker leaves the door open for common ground. You need a worldclass can worldclass changemaker. The next president of the United States, Hillary Clinton. [applause] tiger got the eye of the and youre going to hear me roar [applause] thank you. N thank you so much cedar rapids. Thank you so much, chelsea. Thank you. [applause] sec. Clinton well. [laughter] sec. Clinton thank you so much. Im so happy to be here again in cedar rapids. Im thrilled that chelsea and bill can be with me. This is the last weekend before we move toward the caucuses on monday night. I am especially honored to have so many elected officials here. I want to thank them all. They have been working so hard. They worked so hard for all of you. I appreciate everything you have done. Justin shilts, liz bennett, rob gue, tammy, while he horne, lets give all those great people from hearing around the country a thank you from all of us. [applause] i am really happy to see some many of you who are working so hard to get ready for the caucuses. Precinct thank the teams. Lets say thank you to all of you. You who have made up your mind akakas from the on monday night, thank you so much your mind to caucus for me on night, thank you so much for joining us in making progress in our country. [applause] sec. Clinton you know, there is so much at stake in this election. I know that it starts on monday. You will be the first people in the world to get to express an about who you think should be the next president and commanderinchief. [applause] as you all make up , andmind to go and caucus , youe you will sign up have gotten folks coming in from the back, maybe they can just kind of come up. I know there has been some overflowing could come up in front of the overflowing. Come up in front of the press riser so you can see. Let me say this. Important is is so because of what could happen if you dont. You have had republicans crisscrossed the state, havent you . You have heard what they have they want to turn back the clock to make it more difficult for people to get ahead and stay ahead. We cannot let that happen. All to know that we can fight against them. I will take that fight and go all the way to november. All november. O n then, the white house. [applause] be ready to talk clinton with your friends and neighbors about what you think this is so important. It is a fact, the dont like it when i say it. Economy whenter there is a democrat in the white house. [applause] sec. Clinton we dont have to go back that far to realize it. Think about the last two democratic president s . One of them is here tonight. [applause] themclinton each of inherited economic problems from the republican predecessor, did nt they . When bill got to washington, they asked him what he brought begin solving our problems. He said, i guess arithmetic. For thewe will add up people of america. At the end of eight years, there were 23 million new jobs. , income went up. Dont tell me we cannot raise income for everybody. We did it. Middleclass folks, working people, poor people. They were all better off. We ended up with a balanced budget in the surplus. Then what happened . Another republican president. We went backwards, i was speaking in the senate against those policies to cut taxes on the wealthy. To get out of the way of corporations and take your eyes off of the financial and mortgage markets. Look at what we got left with . A new, young, democratic president. President elect obama. [applause] he called me right after that election asking me to come see him in chicago to be secretary of state. Before we got to that, he said it is so much worse than they told us. We were losing 800,000 jobs per month. 9 million americans lost jobs. 5 million homes were lost. 13 trillion in Family Wealth was wiped out. Theident obama does not get credit he deserves for making sure we can follow to the great depression. [applause] so, we aren standing, but we are not yet running. People have not had their incomes go up. There is still too much inequality. Too much unfairness. We need a plan and a commitment and me. Yes, thank you. [applause] i will call you what iwill do tell you will do. More jobs. Ate lets have more infrastructure, the roads, bridges, tunnels. We have worked in doing this country. Do in this country. We need to make investments that will make us more competitive as an economy. I believe we need to strip away the incentives in the tax code. This allows people to take jobs, move them overseas, so lets bring them back here and put people to work in america. [applause] sec. Clinton i believe we can make things in america. I believe it because i have visited your community colleges. I was up at blackhawk. Uni. Have partnership with they bought the biggest 3d printer in north america. Their training people to use it so that they can attract jobs to iowa. They can be a hub of new opportunities in manufacturing. A manufacturing renaissance. Will make sure that the federal government helps that, doesnt stand in the sidelines, that we recruit and keep and grow jobs. We will combat Climate Change and create more clean, Renewable Energy jobs. [applause] you all hear the republicans when they are asked about Climate Change. They say, i dont know, i am not a scientist. I wish they would hear me, easy, talk answer is to a scientist. Go the universities, come to the high school. You will understand what climate. Hange is goo [applause] sec. Clinton what i really believe is that most of them are not that ill informed. They just do it the Koch Brothers tell them. Thats bad enough. Unfortunate that they have missed out on one of the biggest Economic Opportunities within this country. Some country will be the 21st century superpower. I think it will be china, germany, or us. There is no reason it cant be us. [applause] this is like those big goals that we are supposed to set and put everybody to work to achieve. I know we can. Around the country and tell people we can be the Clean Energy Superpower and see skepticism, we know what is happening in iowa . They are to get one third of their electricity from renewable sources, mostly wind. [applause] we have let in the development of biofuels and are now working on advanced biofuels to see whether they can power naval vessels and air force airplanes. This is important for you all to know. You are in the lead when it comes to new opening two renewable electricity. Lets take all the good things happening across america and lift them up. Lets create millions of jobs. Deploy half a billion more solar panels by the end of my first term and enough clean energy to power every home by the end of my second. We can do this. [applause] i also want to support Small Business could that is Small Business. The jobs come from. The two fastest ways to raise income are raising the minimum fulltime should not be in poverty, and lets finally get equal pay for womens work. [applause] everything i have just told you, the republicans do not agree with. They dont care about manufacturing. They dont care about clean energy, the way we should. They will not raise the minimum wage. Dont think he is a problem. They dont think thats a problem. We are seeing them in an alternate reality. We need to make the tax code fair. That means we are going where the money is, the money is where the wealthy are. We will change the tax code and make them pay for all of the benefits they have here in america. [applause] sec. Clinton theres a bunch of things i want to do to close the loopholes. I am the only candidate on either side who has said plainly idle raise your incomes plain ly i will raise your incomes, not your middleclass taxes. I believe that we need funding to help make College Affordable. To help with Early Childhood education. To do the things that will lift us up. I went to omaha a few weeks ago. Warren buffett endorsed me, and i was very happy to have that support. [applause] he said he agreed with me that taxes had to go up on rich people, like him. He said that will make into popular, but i believe he is right. Rule. Rt the buffett that makethat people a Million Dollars should pay 30 . Right now, because of all the lessoles, they pay taxes than those of you who are teachers. On incomesir share of 5 million or more. These are people who pull every shenanigan in the book. They send money to the bermudas, soamas, money flying around that it cannot be taxed the way it is supposed to. We have to and that. To end that. We have to go over and over again with what it is we need to end. This is gimmicks, invasion, turning backs on americans. This is an example that has outraged. Outraged me. Theres a company in wisconsin that makes auto parts. Remember, theight Auto Industry was on the brink of collapse. Diepublican said let it republicans said let it die. President obama said, that millions of peoples jobs. We have to do something. You and i bailed out the Auto Industry. It turned out to be a good investment. They paid it back. One of those copies asking for help with Johnson Controls was Johnson Controls. Year in aad the best while did they have in a while. Controls will pretend to sell itself and move itself to europe so that it can avoid american taxes. Is using the taxpayers that failed out. This is not an inversion, it is a permission. Perversion. I will go after them when i am president. [applause] sec. Clinton you see, i have a broader view about what we need to do to make sure that people not only pay their fair share, but they dont wreck the economy like we saw them in 2008. The governor, senator, and i agree that we have got to prevent wall street, the financial markets, and others from doing what they did. But, we have a slight difference could have no argument difference. I have no argument i want to that we now have the law. We passed it. The dodd frank law. We have to pull the trigger on the process if the banks pose a systemic risk. We are keeping our eyes on what the banks are doing. That is where i part company with my two friends. 2008 was not just the big banks. Thank you. Lehman brothers, aig, countrywide mortgage, bok wachovia. If all you do is talk about the big banks, you miss the big picture. We have to go after the shadow banking industry. We have to make sure they cant hurt us. That is what i have pledged to do. Independent observers who have looked at what we have all proposed have all said, i am the toughest, most effective, most comprehensive. People like paul krugman. The best evidence, the folks that know i have the toughest plan other are the republicans. They are running 6 million with of ads right now. Hedge fund guys have started a super pac to run against me. Karl rove. Another billionaire just jumped into the fray. Ask yourself, why are they so nervous about me . I will tell you. They know me. They know that i say what i mean and i do what i say. I know how to go after them. [applause] sec. Clinton we are going to take the fight to them. We can and we also have to make progress. I am a progressive who likes to get things done. That is what i believe in. The debate i am having with senator sanders over health care is important. We both have the same goal. Universal coverage. Ore, it was obamacare before was obamacare, it was hillary care. I was working to get universal coverage. They beat us, the dark the drug companies. They beat us. I got Childrens Health insurance passed. I was thrilled when president obama signed the Affordable Care act. Democrats have been trying to do this since harry truman. We know what the alternative is. Republicans want to turn it back to the Insurance Companies, so that they can go and basically charge what they want, to type coverage, deny people charge women more, not let young people be on parents policies. I know. Mancruz was confronted by a at one of his events today who told him about his brotherinlaw who had never been able to afford insurance. He could not go to a doctor. When he finally did, he found out he was riddled with cancer. The man said, why do you want to repeal this . Finally, people like my brother in law can get insurance. Ted cruz went off on an ideological critical comment about Affordable Care. He never said what the alternative is. What would you replace it with . They can tell you. You. Ey cant tell thats fine with them. Thats not fine with me. I will not let that happen. [applause] we have fought too hard and too long. We are at 90 coverage. I will fix what is wrong with the Affordable Care act. We will go after Prescription Drug costs. You, we cannotl start over, my friends. We cannot throw this country back into gridlock. For anothert wait debate 20 year debate. In woman came to see me, she sat look at this. She started taking medicine, 10 shots, back in 1988. About 10 a shot. It stayed pretty steady. Last month she went to the pharmacist to get her shots, and the pharmacist said it would cost her more than 14,000 for the same 10 shots. I looked at the letter, and i said no, here is what is going on. There are a lot of drugs that have been around for a long time. There are no new investments, they just make the same drug, they sell it, they make a profit. They just keep it in the marketplace. Hedge fund guys and speculators said this is a Good Opportunity for us. They started to buy these little companies, and then people needed them, and they began increasing the price through the roof. Valiant pharmaceuticals is one of those that is doing this. Gobbling up drugs that are already out there, and then charging more than people can pay. Call it whated to it is. It is predatory pricing. We need every tool at our legal disposal to shut this down. [applause] i will go after them, i will prevent them from doing this to people. [applause] somebody said to me, i have been railing about this for a couple theirs, somebody said stock price fell, and i said good, i hope they get the message rate i will not let this happen. Then i was in davenport, and a man said thank you for defending the Affordable Care act. Yet a grandchild he had a grandchild born with a congenital heart defect. She has had five operations. The Affordable Care act from a lifetime limits were removed so they could get the insurance they needed for something as serious as openheart surgery on a child. Just yesterday i was in des moines, and i met a woman before it went out to speak and she said i want to thank you for defending the reportable care act Affordable Care act. Im doing it because i believe in it and it is the best shot we have. A