Difference in a positive way in the world. He does not believe that we can be a force for good in the world. The president gave a speemp in cairo. Do you remember that speech in went to cairo and apologized for the United States to send a message of uncertainty right from the very beginning we were now going to be a different kind of country. He went to west point and spoke to those wonderful graduates ready to take degrees and commissions and go stand up for us as necessary across the world and said they were not going to have any difficulties because of americas policy of pulling back. As an army veteran, i was embarrassed by that speech. He goes to the Prayer Breakfast a few weeks ago and says at the Prayer Breakfast that isis are bad people but we have to remember that during the crusades, the christians were bad people too. Now, ladies and gentlemen, when he gave that remark, i went into the press, and i said that that was the worst statement ive heard a president make in my lifetime. [ cheers and applause ] heres why. Its a matter of sending a imagine into the world with the bad people who are using this socalled false crusader statement to recruit their people, and our president goes into the community and says, oh, no they were bad, christians were bad. We americans, you know were sorry for these things. Ladies and gentlemen, this is very bad. Its time for a new Foreign Policy, but our president will not do that because he does not believe in america. I believe in america. We have to have a Foreign Policy that believes in engagement in the world, one that shapes the world to ensure that the American People are safe to make sure that we use all of our elements of power, diplomatic culture, and the ability and the strength of the American People, our economy, and first thing i told you about, as i said to you, its about the economy, economy, and National Security are the same thing. American power in the 20th century made the difference and will again. I believe our policy, ladies and gentlemen, has to be based on the premise of peace through strength in the United States of america. [ applause ] finally, we have to have an International Policy and place in the world that understands what were trying to do. What were trying to do in my view is in addition to the safety and security of the American People. We have to be willing to say that we are going to project our values into the 21st zenkcentury. We are not going to let other cultures and countries dominate us with their thinking. America values are vital. What are the values . Democracy and freedom. The rule of law. The Free Enterprise system. The value of family. The freedom and tolerance of religion. The advancement of women. These are the values that america stands for. This is why together with security we conduct our forp policy to give us the mission for the 21st century that we must have. Now, were going to do q a in a few minutes, but before i stop, one thing, as governor of virginia, you stand in great shoes. Its a great responsibility. As governor of virginia, i think about some of my predecessors like governor thomas overson, for example, before he became governor of virginia, he wrote the declaration of independence and said in there he said in there that we hold these truths to be selfevident that all men are created equal that theyre endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When he wrote those things he did not just speak as an american, but for all humanity and remains so to this day. I think of another governor of virginia by the way jefferson was governor and the british tried to arrest and hang him as governor of virginia. He was a war governor too. Patrick henry was another governor of virginia. In 1775, the war was already going on in boston. The virginians meant in st. Johns church in richmond. At that time there was a discussion, what do we do . Voices said we need to combine back up and reconcile back with king george iii, and Patrick Henry stood up saying no, i know not what course others, but for me, give me liberty or give me death. That ought to resinate real well in New Hampshire it seems to me. [ applause ] so, friends, the story of Patrick Henry means this. Patrick henry believed in america. Patrick henry believed in america before there was an america. I believe in america. You believe in america. Now is time that we had a president that believes in america. Thank you very much for the chance to be with you. [ applause ] we have questions microphones, just raise your hand. Governor . Warren . I dont really need a microphone. Ill ask you the question. You need the mic. [ laughter ] all right thank you very much. How, as president , do you incentivize congress to have the courage and the fortitude to actually lower the business taxes which we all know would increase our opportunities and stimulate our economy. How do you do that . Yeah you know i think we got to talk to the people in the United States about whats real leer. Were all getting this information that everything is just fine, but you know people out there, and i do too not having the opportunities they are having or need to have. We know people are working part time. Do you know them . People that want full time jobs and cant find them so they work part time. We have to do that. What do you do with the congress . Well, what you do with the congress is make it clear that the American People want better. Ill tell you another story too. Another thing is you know, congressional people really love to spend money. I dont know if you noticed that, but they do. I stood up in front of a group of republicans and democrats just recently, and i said, you know, many of you out there want to spend every dime, wouldnt you . And they nodded. Said, yeah. I said, fine, lets get more dimes. Well argue about whether were going to use them on the debt or give them back to the American People or whether you want to spend it but you cant have a stagnant economy. It is not good for anybody. Its not good for your constituents. You need somebody to stand up on a National Basis and explain the truth to people. Explain to the American People that they are deliberately being kept in a slow growth economy thats depriving them of opportunities. I know what im talking about. When you increase the taxes on investment, you get less investment. People know that. Members of Congress Know that too. The time has come to take it over their heads to the people, someone who can talk to the people about the opportunities they miss. I think it is a tragedy what is going on with young people. 48 of young people are working in jobs that do not require a college degree. I said that to you. You know what a tragedy that is . Every year america renews itself when people come out of college. We cant continue to stunt and stall young people who are not getting a fair start in life. This is the discussion we have to have with the people, and theyll take it to the congress people, but you got to hold congresss feet to the fire and make it clear that growth must be the mission of the United States. Its in the National Security interest too. Yes, maam . Ladyiesladies, first, go ahead. Oh go ahead. Is this on . Its on. Thank you, paul. A question with Homeland Security, and, certainly our infrastructure is becoming aged, and our especially our electrical grid, attacked in california just a rogue attack. Weve got drones, somebody could go over our system bring it down. What are your suggestions for improving our infrastructure from a National Security perspective . Well, very good. I chaired the National Commission on Homeland Security at the United States. I was actually approached when i was governor. Interestingly enough by the clinton administration. They came to me. I was the governor of virginia. They knew i had a background in terrorism issues and they asked me to chair what is a very official commission. Youll find that on the rand cooperation web page staff it, put in Gilmore Commission on the rand web page and reports come up. You can see that. What we need to do is to be willing to advance our infrastructure and make sure that its safe and secure. Thats what we have to do. And all of those reports explain exactly the kind of processes we have to go through to make our infrastructure safe and secure, but i think the real issue is a deep understanding of the potential attack on us. They spend a couple thousand dollars and attack us and then because of the modern Information Systems that we see, we can spend a trillion dollars trying to respond to that kind of thing. Bin laden said the goal was the destruction of the American Economy, and that will certainly do it. We have to have an explanation for the American People of these kinds of dangers, keep ourselves as secure as possible, but have a frank discussion with the American People we are not going to surrender our freedoms because of these attacks. Be steadfast be strong and stay americans. Youll find in the report letter i wrote that i basically said if the enemy makes us give up civil freedoms, thats the entire game. Im not one to propose that in the official reports put an emphasis on the preservation of liberties at the same time we try to protect the infrastructure. I have to say, by the way, mike, matt, if i could say and ill ask, but article 1 section 8 of the constitution talks about internal improvements and infrastructure, a legitimate thing for the United States to do. Mr. Ambassador . Thank you very much. Thank you for your service to the country and thank you for coming up here and youre very well spoken notes. I would ask you two short questions. Everyone in this room whomever they decide to vote for we have one goal. Thats to take back the white house. What is the most important thing that you believe sir, that we need to do in order to take back the white house and, number two, to avoid losing the white house . Oh. We republicans are more diverse than the democratic party. Democrat party knows exactly what they are trying to do. They dont they argue about who is going to run up front put the flag up and be the leader. Their agenda is set, understood and they dont argue with each other. We do. We republicans are so diverse that theres a tendency to get across purposes with each other. Now, i believe, if you look at the elements of the republican party, reflective of the people of the United States that we can bring people together behind a common message. That message must be growth of the American Economy and peace through strength. We republicans ought to be able to agree with that. I believe that is in concord, ambassador ambassador, with the peoples thinking across the United States. Its been a lot of discussion about how the potential candidate in 16 is a governor or past governor because they want to see somebody who actually run something, but i believe what im bringing to the table is a long history of thinking about the International Relations in this country. The degree in Foreign Policy from uva experience overseas, training as an speejs agent living among the german people. Study of international law. Visited 18 countries on three continue innocents as governor. In addition to that, ive been to afghanistan, pakistan israel croatia chaired the National Commission for five years on Homeland Security after the three years in the 9 11 attack, i was the governor of virginia during the 9 11 attack and had to protect my state and reawaken the economy of my state, which took a terrible blow when they closed airports in virginia around the washington, d. C. Area. This is the kind of experience that i think that we take to the people of the United States. Listen were not going to win the presidency because we look pretty. Or because weve got some radical weird thing that one of our candidates decides to say or something thats out of step with the American People. We are win if we are persuasive that we care about regular people out there who cant get a job and cant work and dont have decent wages. People out there who are recognizing the weakness that the United States message is sending. I talked to you, ambassador moments ago about the president s weakness in the statements hes projecting, and the dangers thats creating as the russians fly planes against the states. The terrorist people who continue to bubble up out there and threaten our country. Isis, which represents a barbaric way of life, completely out of sync what we stand for, those values i laid out to you. Dont you remember the strength, the strength of purpose that a Ronald Reagan said when he said, mr. Gor chov tear down this wall . If we have the strength to back it up, if we rebuild our economy, which was the beacon of liberty in the 20th century and can be again in the 21st if we do these things, we can preserve the peace and more importantly preserve our values and liberties in the 21st century. [ applause ] next question . Yes. Governor do you believe that we can pass a constitutional balanced Budget Amendment and what effect do you think passing the budget would we be able to shrink federal government . You know, in virginia, we have a balanced Budget Amendment. We have to balance the budget. Every governor every year submits a budget thats in balance. Balance a budget by borrowing. You can balance a budget by doing bonding. You can do that. We did that do. People do that. You buy a house you borrow money from a bank as well. Im skeptical, frankly, of a balanced Budget Amendment. I think we probably ought to be in a position where we can get our legislators to make decisions about whats vital and not vital. If we have a sense of direction and you know what id rather do . Grow the economy. Id rather create some real excitement and wealth, and gov all, we have to stop the notion we see in America Today that the opportunity to rise and to acquire wealth and to succeed is bad. Thats what the Opposition Party is saying. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen if you destroy either the incentives, the opportunity, or the will to become successful in this country, you destroy this country. That is what the Opposition Party preaches every day. Success is evil. Well tax it. Well penalize it. Thats what they say every day. I say no. I say that we have to give young people an opportunity to be educated to succeed to have a chance to grow and have some excitement. All of us ought to be able to do that. We should see our wages going up. We have to pay taxes, so be it. You know frankly thats probably the better way to do this instead of trying to constrain the government through a Budget Amendment thats worked around by governmental officials. Lets grow the economy and create more wealth and then demand the people that we send to the house and senate do something meaningful about cutting and controlling the spending in this country. I believe the country can work with proper president ial leadership, i believe the country can work. We have a i say we have a president that does not believe in america. I mean it because the america he believes in is not the america i believe in. Or you believe in. And we can restore that country again through leadership at the National Level and in cooperation with members of the house and senate like kelly ai yod who does a great job for you here. We can do this. [ applause ] [ applause ] maybe thats not the answer you wanted, but its the answer you got. Last question. Two minutes left. Two minutes. Thank you. Okay, sir how do you feel about well, congress has the power to levy taxes. We all agree on that. But how do you feel about unelected unnamed epa bureaucrats having the power to levy taxes on the American Public and businesses via fossil fuel regulatory taxes . [ applause ] yeah. Well, thats a softball question, okay . Obviously. In this, we all concur. The epa is out of control. They have no concept of what they are doing to the extremeness of their ideas. They should not have the power to levy regulations on people that cause businesses to have to spend that kind of money because the message that we have to give, ladies and gentlemen from now on is that we are determined to grow the economy back again. The epa does not care about that. As a matter of fact, many people in the Environmental Protection agency do not want to see a growing economy. They think is creates dirt. Right . [ laughter ] we must grow the economy. If the epa puts an unreasonable regulation, that is wrong, and i fought the congress very much. Where are they . How come theyre not passing regulation or drawing people back in line . You know well, if you have a president that believes in america and understands opportun