You can also have a rapid unraveling, and that is a panic. 2008 was close to a panic. I dont believe we have fundamentally fixed all of that. I believe there is still enormous debt. There could some day be an instantaneous recognition that something is seriously wrong here. The country is no longer producing like it did and has enormous debt. I hope that they doesnt calm. Defend that off, we need to bring it into balance. It is a simple proposition. You only spend what comes in. The rest is common sense. If you did that, that would be so radical that everybody would say you cant do that. When i say i only want to spend what comes then, outside the beltway, that makes sense. Why is it hard for the government to shrink . Sen. Paul the people appear dont know what to do because they have been here too long. When i came up here and offered spending cuts, they said good when i was back home, but its not enough to balance the budget. I was going to call 500 billion. It could be done. The upside here about austerity and it will be terrible, but with the Government Spending left there is more left in the community to create jobs. I think you get an anonymous amount of prosperity if you send lester washington. I think it will help poverty in this country. Im saying lets leave more money in the communities. If it goes to washington it never gets back to the people who need it. Lets leave it in the community. We have never tried that. Well try the government way of sending it to washington and try eating some of it back. How do you win the nomination . What is your strategy . Sen. Paul i thought youre going to tell me that. I really need to know. Its going to be a big field, 15 people running, 12 credible candidates on the republican side, and so you have to carve out your space. I think we have a good space. I am the only one who fought against the nsa and privacy. Im the only one who said any spending for defense you want to increase will have to be cut somewhere else in the budget. I and the only one thats really about balancing the budget, for a flat tax across the board to stimulate the economy. We do have a space. I am also the only one who thinks intervening overseas is not always the answer. We need to look before we leap. We need im guessing we will hear from others on the state you want to be involved all the time. I think that has led to a lot of problems in the middle east and has not made things more stable or less chaotic. Do you enjoy campaigning . Sen. Paul sometimes. I dont like the long hours on the plane, being in airports not being able to get out in the sun and exercise and a can of thing. Do i like talking about issues . When i am in the element of engaging at a dinner party or a questionandanswer, i like that. I like talking about the issues of the day. I would sit at the table with the adults when i was a kid to have a discussion about politics. A politician would be lying to you if they said they love being in the airports and on the planes and stuff. It is time away from home and family. I wont do it forever. You wont see me doing this every four years. Im doing it now because im going to give it my all and i think we have a real chance, but you wont be seeing me do this every four years. The book is called taking a stand. Tomorrow the center for strategic and International Studies hosted a discussion on combating isis. See it live at 9 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan2. Now, Martin Omalley on National Security. The former Maryland Governor talks about economic security, Climate Change, and combating isis. This event is about an hour. Mike, thank you very much. When i left the pentagon in 2012, i said no to a lot of tempting invitations that were presented, but i said an enthusiastic yes to the prospect of being part of the Truman National security project and center for national policy. I did so because i thought then and i am convinced now that this organization and its members throughout the country are dedicated to one thing making a difference. Your political members are dedicated to making things happen while governing. Your policy members are dedicated to a strong, smart and principled approach to our National Security policies. And the returning veterans among you are dedicated to applying the leadership skills you displayed on the battlefield to the communities to which you have returned. Its not often that all of those qualities can be embodied in one leader, and that is why it gives me particular pleasure to introduce the keynote speaker of this 10th anniversary truman annual conference. Martin omalley comes not from a background of financial wealth but from a heritage of service. He is a descendant of a veteran of the war of 1812. He is the son of an Army Air Force pilot and veteran of world war ii. The Washington Post called his mother, barbara, perhaps the most wellknown octogenarian on capitol hill never elected to office. His wife, katie, is a Baltimore CityDistrict Court judge. His fatherinlaw was marylands attorney general. Martin lost his very first race for Public Office for Maryland State Senate by 44 votes. He never lost again. He was elected to the Baltimore City council in 1991 and served for eight years. He was elected mayor of baltimore in 1999 and served for eight years. He was elected governor of maryland in 2007 and served for eight years. Do you see a pattern here . As mayor of baltimore, martin made things happen. His city stat database tracking system, based on accountability and results in government, saved baltimore hundreds of millions of dollars and generated a surplus. He won his first may or election with 90 of the vote. In 2005, Time Magazine named him one of americas top five bigcity mayors. As governor of maryland, he made things happen. He recovered one her percent of the jobs lost during the national recession. He held firm to great pressure to keep College Tuition costs down and education was recognized in maryland as having the best Public Schools in america for five years in a row. He took action to restore the health of Chesapeake Bay and reduced Greenhouse Gas emissions. He worked to uplift the dignity of all of his constituents by signing Marriage Equality into law. He worked to pass the dream act to get more marylanders access to college education. A littleknown fact maryland under Martin Omalley ranked first in the United States in the percentage of womenowned firms. Martin omalley served two terms as the chair of the Democratic Governors Association where he carved out a position of leadership on Homeland Security among other issues and president obama chose him to be the democratic cochair of the council of governors to represent Homeland Security. It is not a littleknown fact that his Irish Catholic heritage has been a Strong Influence throughout his life. Reflected in his determination perseverance, easy and natural connection with people and the music which puts smiles on all of our faces throughout the years as the lead singer of omalleys march. I met martin working for a political leader of Irish Heritage who influenced a generation of young men and women who have made significant differences in this country. It is the words of another Irish Catholic politician that perhaps best sums up Martin Omalleys approach to public service. There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why, robert f. Kennedy told the generation of americans, my generation. I dream of things that never were and ask why not . Im very proud to call Martin Omalley my friend. There are many in my generation and very many in years who would be proud to call him the next president of the United States. Please welcome Martin Omalley. [applause] governor omalley thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Doug wilson, thank you very much for your kindness, friendship and your counsel through these years. It is a great honor to be with all of you, so many people who have done so very much for the country that we love. For more than a decade, the Truman National security project has been at the forefront of nurturing a new generation of leaders in for policy and National Security. For military bases in san diego to federal agencies in washington, you are not only advocating for a strong, smart approach to a national affair, you are taking action and you are doing it every day through operation free. You are mobilizing a coalition of veterans, activists who know our reliance on fossil fuels threatens the security of our country. Through no exceptions, you are working to make sure our military recruits the most talented americans regardless of gender and through the front lines civilians initiative, you are supporting the diplomats journalists, the Development Professionals who are not in uniform but nonetheless put their lives on the line to alleviate human suffering around the world every day. Thanks to all of you, the truman project has emerged as a valuable source on some of the toughest challenges facing our nation today. We need those old ideas now more than ever. Americas role in the world is to advance the cause of a rising global middle class. Free from oppression, from fear. After 12 years on the battlefield of iraq and afghanistan, after a Global Financial crisis and a long recession that our people are still struggling to fully recover from, it is understandable that Many Americans would like to disengage from the world around us. Understandable, but it is not responsible. Because our nations security in our childrens prosperity demand that we actually be more engaged with the world around us and not less. We do this primarily by making our nation more prosperous and secure here at home. We do this by exercising our economic, diplomatic, military and healing power around the world in ways that are consistent with our most deeply held moral principles. In essence, we must create a more farsighted and proactive Foreign Policy based on engagement and collaboration rather than going it alone. We must construct a new framework for National Security strategy focused on the production of threats. Todays challenges defy easy solutions. We may have the most sophisticated military in the world but we dont have a silver bullet. This morning, i want to share a vision with you of a more agile, innovative and forward thinking approach, one that will enable us to master the challenges of our time rather than falling victim to them. My purpose in our short time today is not to offer sound bite solutions to a laundry list of crises around the world. My purpose here today instead is to lay out a longterm framework for pursuing our National Interests in a fastchanging world. Some important history as america and allies brought world war ii to a close, a man named harry truman became our president. Having fought in the first world war, truman knew something about her rich, service Courage Service and sacrifice. It was truman who concluded world war ii. It was truman who brought forward the Marshall Plan that would turn our former enemies into longtime democratic allies. It was truman who led the United States to recognize israel immediately upon her founding and it was truman who crafted and signed into law the National Security act of 1947, the most longlasting overall of our National Security strategy and institutions. We must take the broader lessons of what work in trumans day and apply them to the emerging threats of our own time because today we face an equally daunting array of threats. These threats are much different and in some instances for more complex than those we saw in the 1990s. What am i talking about . Violent extremism, Nuclear Proliferation, pandemics cyberattacks, rising inequality, failed to nation states, the megadroughts and the floods caused by Climate Change. More refugees now on our planet than an anytime since world war ii. It is time for a new National Security act, one focused on the reduction of threats like these. Understanding precedes action and to understand, we must ask the right questions. Among them how do we balance the use of our military, diplomatic and economic tools to advance our National Interest in ways that are consistent with the most deeply held american principles . What roles would institutions like the centers for Disease Control play in looking over the horizon to alert us far earlier to threats . What are the forwardlooking investments in new alliances that we can make with other nations that would stem the root causes of instability . How can we best prepared to defend ourselves from our enemies while doing all that we can to prevent conflict in the first place . The first and foremost response ability of the president is to protect the people of the United States. Today, this means transforming our militarys structure to focus on 21st century challenges. It means protecting our privacy and our security at the same time. It means reducing security threats not only with better technology, but with better human intelligence on the ground and in the cultures that are important for us to understand. Did mean transforming the way we partner with the private sector and civil society. Harnessing the energy and the talents of the American People to advance our values. It means joining with allies to deploy Renewable Energy technologies so both at home and around the world to confront the very real danger, potentially reversible Climate Change. It means understanding that comprehensive Immigration Reform here at home is both an economic and National Security imperative. It means protecting the United States from Cyber Attacks, on the digital battlefields and servers and smart phones. It means rethinking every deal with nations like russia and like china which are neither trusted allies or total adversaries. It means forging a new alliance of progress right here in our own hemisphere which we have undervalued and neglected for far too long. And it means forming Regional Partnership to address emerging threats in places like the South China Sea and the sea lanes of the middle east. There is urgent work to be done. Nowhere is this more collaborative approach to this work more important than in confronting the growing challenge of severe Climate Change. For years, the pentagon has recognized global warning as an urgent National Security threat. Your organizations leader, mike breen, put it best at a recent congressional hearing when he said over 97 of climate Scientists Say that manmade Climate Change is a reality. As a combat leader, if 97 of my intelligence indicated that i was about to face a leap of danger that would risk the lives of my paratroopers, i would be committing malpractice if i did not listen and act. Mike is right. The Energy Technologies needed to combat Climate Change exist today. It is the political world that is lacking. America can and must lead the way by pursuing an ambitious plan to ensure our country is howard 100 by clean energy powered 100 white clean energy by by clean energy by 2050. It is a threat to human life and also the greatest Business Opportunity to come to our country in over 100 years. We must seize that opportunity by creating an American Green jobs agenda. It is a match for the climate challenge. We need to invest in resilience from the jersey shore to californias central valley. We need to spur innovation to develop cuttingedge technologies that will create jobs at home and unlock new markets abroad. We need new ideas at every level in states that show that it to work like california and as we did in maryland where in eight years we increased Renewable Energy capacity by 57 and made ourselves a clean tech jobs hub and cut Carbon Emissions by 10 . Americas leadership an example are absolutely essential because