Meeting at West Running Brook middle school. They are making an appearance here tonight, we are watching the appearance here tonight, then interviewing some people. About 250,000 about 250 people are expected to attend. Joe adams and senator judd gregg. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, will you all please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Oorah you, jim. It is a pleasure for kathy and i to be here and very bank tonight. We are big fans in derry tonight. We are big fans of the robert frost home across the street. We have spent a lot of time trying to keep it preserved. It is a special night for us to be back in derry. It is an extraordinary night for us to have the opportunity to introduce to you two people. The first person i want to talk about is the person i think should be the next president of the United States. [applause] like all of you, kathy and i have been looking at all the candidates because that is our job. We are from New Hampshire. That is one of our jobs that as representatives of New Hampshire. We take it seriously as a state, and you folks do obviously, because you are here tonight. We put forth three tests. Number one, can the person when . I think it is time we had a republican conservative president. [applause] number two, is the person comes substantive on the issues . Does he have approaches to the complex things we face today, Like National security and how . E protect our Social Security and number three, can he govern . That is not standing in the corners and shouting, it is getting in the middle of the ring and working. Jeb bush beats all those criteria is in spades. All that criteria in spades. [applause] special is our privilege to introduce one of the great americans, somebody who has made a huge difference in millions of lives across our country, who epitomizes what it is to be a Public Servant along with her husband, and that is barbara bush. Let me welcome, on behalf of derry, barbara bush and her son jeb bush, the former governor of florida. [applause] ann plays] [applause] ms. Bush its great to be back in New Hampshire. Can you hear me . Yes ms. Bush great to be back in New Hampshire. We have had such wonderful times here. You have the values and beliefs that we bushes believe in. Givers, you are great. Just wonderful to be here with the worlds nicest man. [applause] greggsh to see the again, to see my friend nancy, and to see all of you, i did not plan on this, but jeb is the nicest, wisest, most caring, l, disciplined [laughter] ms. Bush not by me. [laughter] ms. Bush but he is not a brighter bragger. We dont allow that. But he is decent, honest. He is everything we need in a president. [applause] ms. Bush his dad and i are very proud of him. Ladies and gentlemen next president of the United States, jeb bush. [applause] mr. Bush thank you, mama. Thank you all. Thank you. You can sit. Everybody can sit. Thank you all very much. Wow. Mom, my crowd sizes normally or not this large. [laughter] i wonder why. It is such a joy to be with with my mother, who i adore, who is an inspiration. I cannot tell you in the probably 90 versions of town Hall Meetings i have done all across this state, how many times people came up and said, your mother, i love your mother. I love your mother. [laughter] [applause] mr. Bush over and over again. She is not as great as everybody thinks she is, i can tell you that, but [laughter] mr. Bush i jokingly say that were growing up that when we were growing up in midland and houston, mom was fortunate to not have a childabuse hotline available, because the discipline of learning right and wrong was her doing. My dad was this perfect, idyllic man who i would say is the greatest man alive. [applause] but she was the one who taught us right and wrong, i can promise you that. It has worked out pretty good. All the mistakes i have made have been my own doing. It is a delight to be with you all. To kathy and judd gregg, thank you for your leadership in this state. This is really the first family of New Hampshire. [applause] about people think who run to the challenge, or the people who cut and run. You can basically divide politicians into those two camps. John gregg is not a cut and run guy. He solves problems. If you can find a way to build a bipartisan consensus to fix something, you could he would do it. Difference in improving the quality of life of people in New Hampshire and the country, and we need to restore that sense of problem solving and washington, d. C. Again. Judd, i thank you for your leadership. [applause] needush because we do someone who actually has had some experience. Eight years ago, last monday, won the iowa caucuses. I was watching it at home with columba, i was thinking, wow, this guy can bring it. He can deliver a speech. Look, i am a committed conservative, but he spoke about no red states, no blue states, only the United States, and it was inspirational, and he won. In retrospect, now that we are in the eighth year of the Obama Administration, there was nothing in his background that would suggest that he was a leader. Think about it. He was a community organizer. He was a state senator. Great note. He was two years a United States senator with no bills or sponsorship or anything significant to his name. His life was organized around his own ambition, and he won. Instead of creating a unified purpose for our country, he divided us up. Today, we are worse off because of that. Less secure because of that. Income is in decline because of that. More people are living in poverty because of that. We need someone who has proven leadership to fix the mess in washington, d. C. Fastforward to three nights ago in the iowa caucuses, the three leading contenders on the republican side. They go about their proven record of experience. Donald trump . [faint chuckles] mr. Bush i will leave it at that. [applause] two gifted freshman senators who can deliver a great speech. Mey talented, dont get wrong. One is a close friend. But what in their background would suggest that they can make a tough decision . That they would run to a fire to put it out . That they would figure out a way to solve problems because they have been confronted with those challenges in their life . We are living in dangerous times. We need someone with a proven record who has a steady hand. We need someone who is serious about solving problems. We need someone whose ambition is to serve others, not to serve their own ambitions. [applause] mr. Bush and yet, i am part of the establishment. I am part of the establishment because i am barbara bushss son. I embrace that every day. That doesnt bother me a bit. [applause] mr. Bush i am proud of my dad, i am proud of my brother, i am proud of being a bush. [applause] like all families, we are a little different. If you have a sister and a brother, you are probably not the same. My life journey started out in a different way. I felt madly in love with coma from columba from mexico when i was 17 years old. I mean, head over heels, madly in love. We are now going on 42 years of marriage. [applause] mr. Bush my life can be defined a. C. , beforeand columba and after columba. Thank god the statue of limitations expired on the bc part. [laughter] has been built around moving to miami, starting a business that became the largest commercial real estate company. 32 years in the private sector, where i have learned to sign the front side of a paycheck and understand what government regulations mean, how hard it is for people to make ands meat, and how tough it has become within administration make ends meet, and how tough it has ome within administration with the Obama Administration. And i got recognized in a purple state, the largest swing state in the country, with lots of people moving in and out, and i applied conservative principles, sometimes when they were not popular. I stood my ground, i apply these principles. I brought people to my cause. The net effect was that people benefited. In florida, we have a balanced Budget Amendment. That works, i can promise you. When i left office, we had a surplus of 8 billion more than when we started, 9 billion of reserves. We need a balanced Budget Amendment for the federal government so that washington begins to live within our means, just as every other state has. [applause] in florida, they called me veto corleone, because i vetoed 29 line items in the budget. I was an equal opportunity veto or falls opportunity vetoer. A line item that did not go through the process, where it was working out, i featured that. They did not matter to me, because the basic concept is that government cannot grow faster than our ability to pay for it. If you believe that, we need a lineitem veto power in washington, d c [applause] in florida, we eliminated lifetime employment protections for state workers, which is the wrong approach, but it was dangerous to do this politically. I had thousands of volunteers who tried to defeat me in my reelection because god for bid that would spread across the land. You might see the tire mark here, the little scar. Taking on the aclu was not easy. But we ended up reducing the Government Workforce by 13,000, 11 . ,ut florida led job growth seven out of eight years. 1. 3 million jobs were created. Dont you want that in washington, d. C. . [applause] and the place that i would start is the department of veterans affairs. Heres the deal. [applause] of bush this bureaucracy 340,000 people, this is a monstrosity, the Largest Health care system in the world, and all likelihood, that is there to provide care for men and women in uniform who come back. Way itot working the should. Thats not to say there are not dedicated nurses, doctors, and clinicians in that apartment. There certainly are. There is atingly, shortage of care providers but massive numbers of bureaucrats. Last year, the Department Gave out bonuses for all sorts of reasons, including taking veterans off waiting lists. That sounds like a good idea he does that was a scandal from two years ago, where they had this big long list. Here is the deal. In some parts of the country, they waiting list was taken down, but veterans did not get care. Veterans died. And only three people have been fired. When i am president , heads will roll in the department of veterans affairs. [applause] mr. Bush a couple of weeks ago in a town hall meeting, a woman got up and said my dad had a heart condition, and it was dangerous, so i had to drive all the way to boston to get him tear because there is no veterans facility here. Expandonse is, we should options of private providers. If a veteran wants to see his own doctor, if he wants to go to an up if a veteran wants to go to a clinic in his own neighborhood, if a veteran has an emergency, they should be able to go to the emergency room that is closest. [applause] turning the culture in washington, d. C. Is important, because then people will be able to trust our government. If it is smaller and focused on serving the people of this great country, we will go back to the business of creating high sustained Economic Growth, which we need. I know how to do this, because i have done it in the private sector and i have done it as a governor. We toured on barriers. We led the nation in Small Business growth. The government grew by 2. 2 . People can pursue their own dreams. That is the american way. America does better bottomup and topdown, and we need to shift power away from washington as fast as possible and put it in the hands of families and businesses. We will rise again, i promise you that. [applause] none of this is going to matter unless people believe that we are safe. Today, we are living in dangerous times, and our country is not safe. We have a president who does not believe americas leadership in the world is a force for good. He is desperately wrong, because let me tell you, without american leadership, when we pull back, we see what happens. We talk big but dont act, we see what happens. When we call russia a regional power, and 30 days later we they invade ukraine because we have done nothing, we see what happens. When we say we are pivoting to asia, and the chinese builds a military facility 100 miles off the South China Sea because they dont see any pivoting, and our allies wonder why they are talking about pivoting, and the rest of the world is kind of offended that we pivoted away from them to go to asia, you see what happens. When you call isis the jv team and allow for a creation of a caliphate the size of indiana its the same size. [applause] unlike indiana, there are 40,000 apple tested terrorists that organized Battle Tested terrorists that organized to destroy western civilization. They attack our freedom everyday. In the past year, there have been 17 plus attacks in 17 countries inspired by isis, or directly organized by them. Isis is not the jv team. You cannot contain isis. You have to destroy it in the caliphate if we are going to be kept safe. [applause] look, i have had a front row seat watching history unfold. I am also a student of history, but i have this unique position. I have seen now it is done right. I worked for Ronald Reagan to get him elected. I worked and saw my dad worked to bring about the end of the see russia and germany unified in a way that has created stability for europe. I have seen my brother show his dog and determination to leave. Raq secure i know how to do this. It is not about press talking. It is not about talking about carpet bombing. For senator cruzs edification, needt bombing, you dont to do anymore. We have precision weaponry. You dont have to destroy innocent people. [applause] we have left the 1960s and 1970s. We are now in a 21stcentury world where we need military superiority based on technological advances. We need to make sure we rebuild our military in a 21stcentury way, where our special operators are given more resources, where the marines are given more resources so that more than half of them are defined as ready when they are based here in this country. We need to rebuild our air force. The pilots are younger than the planes. The b52 was launched and inaugurated in the truman era. This is a serious time, and we need a seriously or to rebuild our military not to use it, but a serious leader to rebuild our military not to use it, but to keep the peace. Ronald reagan was right in that the military is used to keep pace. [applause] makessh something that me take more than politics, its that i believe that life is a gift from god, divinely inspired. That we all have a purpose and a meaning in this world. Imagine a country where everybody reached their full potential. Now. Right now, somebody people are held back because of an addiction, or because of the ck of ability to rise up. Young people have student debt on their backs, making it hard to have the first step forward. Small businesses are closing rather than opening. If you believe like i do that this is divinely inspired, then it is the duty of people in public life to tear down the barriers, not to say get in line because life is not fair, you have liabilities, i will manage them. Another spending program. We will tax the successful people because thats why you are not successful. That does not work. We are spiraling downward with that philosophy. We need to build capacity so that people can earn success in all then fashion, and interaction amongst us will create more prosperity, benefits, love, and compassion than any other Government Program ever created. Thats what i believe in my heart. [applause] mr. Bush in order for that to happen, we need a servant leader. We dont need the big dog on the stage, barking out stuff, insulting people. We need someone who has a proven record, who has a servants heart. Last year, i met a young woman from jacksonville, florida. She told me her story. She was born on the other side , this terminology that i find so unamerican, to be honest. I youre in for i youre for the day where it does not i yearn for the day where it does not matter what zip code you were born in. [applause] the woman was a third grader when i implement at the policy that was considered radical at this time, but nobody has done it as dramatically as florida, which is ending social promotion in third grade. There is this idea that you are functionally illiterate as a third grader, you go to fourth grade, and somehow there will be some your goal that you will learn math even though you cannot read the book. You will learn history even though you cannot read. Many kids in florida at the time, more than 1 3 of the kids, were defined as functionally illiterate. Thes what my dad called soft bigotry of expectations. It is shameful. This precious girl was held back two years. But here she was angry, godmother found out about the florida Corporate Tax scholarship program, a floor a program that i created along with the Florida Legislature that is the largest Voucher Program in the country. 80,000 low income kids go to private schools because i took on powerful interests and i won. [applause] the girl got to go to a christian school. The first week, her teacher put her armor around her put her arm around her and said, i love you, you can do this. Jesus loves you. It was a christian school, so that is allowed. Still he is in florida. You can do this. We can do this together. You have the capacity to do whatever you want. And the girl overcame the two years of being held back. She was the first in her immediate family to graduate from high school and college. And now, she is getting a masters at the university of south florida. [applause] mr. Bush you know what . She is going to support me. I think she is. She campaigned here. In New Hampshire, you never know until the actual vote because you all wait until the last i amt, but in her case, certain she is going to support me. But i