1 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: Here is Congressman Nut Gingrich, General chairman of GOPACK. I'm 2 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,159 Speaker 1: going to be a little bit prophets oilman. You know, 3 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: I was a college teacher in there are certain habits 4 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 1: you can't get out of. And I really have thought 5 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 1: a long time about this opportunity because I think you 6 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:34,160 Speaker 1: are all collectively very very important. You are the leadership 7 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: of this party in one of the great regions of 8 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: this country, and so I want to share with you 9 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 1: where I think we're at and where I think we 10 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 1: have to go. And it's going to be a little 11 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: bit complicated, and I'm going to ask you to sort 12 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: of stay with me for a couple of minutes because 13 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:51,840 Speaker 1: it's not going to be just your standard political speech. 14 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: I'm going to be a little profits or other. They 15 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: wouldn't let me have a test afterwards, but I'm I'll 16 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: try not to be quite as dry as a lecture. 17 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 1: But I want to talk from the heart, and I 18 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: want to say things I've never said before. I really 19 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: worked on to make this speech today to share with you, 20 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 1: and it's things that I've talked with Lea what are 21 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 1: about in general, And I've talked with some people at 22 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: the White House about but I haven't really had a 23 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 1: chance to try to put it all into a package. 24 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:20,399 Speaker 1: And it's party starts with the experience that the gim 25 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 1: and others gave me of being allowed to serve as 26 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: the whip and having the viewpoint of being the second 27 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: leading Republican in the House in terms of leadership, and 28 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 1: working as closely as we do with the President Bush 29 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: and Johnson, Nunu and Darman and that entire team that 30 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: works with Jim Ray at the White House. And so 31 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: I've been active in this party since nineteen sixty. I 32 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: start started campaign in nineteen sixty in Muskogee County, Columbus, Georgia, 33 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: and I've run congressional campaigns. I ran for office for 34 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: five years, lost twice, and finally won the third time. 35 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: And what I want to say to you comes from 36 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: the heart, but it's really my understanding of where we're 37 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: at today. And I have to start by talking not 38 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: about the Republican Party and not talking to you as Republicans, 39 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: but by talking about America and by talking about all 40 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 1: of us as Americans, because I think you have to 41 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: really start at that point. And I agree so deeply 42 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 1: with what Jim Hansen said about Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan 43 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: I think changed the history of the world. I think 44 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: if you go back and you read any nineteen if 45 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: you read any nineteen seventy nine magazine, Malaise, decay, decline, powerlessness, Iran, Afghanistan, 46 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: a drug advisor who was fired for selling for giving 47 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 1: away illegal prescriptions, the whole process of the decay of 48 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 1: the liberal welfare state in the modern left. And ten 49 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: years later glassnost and Parastroika and Hungary and Poland and Mexico, 50 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:12,079 Speaker 1: and the longest period of peacetime expansion economically in jobs 51 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: in history. All the things that happened, and one man's 52 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: personal courage and personal vision made the difference. But he 53 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: left us I think a very difficult legacy because I 54 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: want to say something that I think we Republicans have 55 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: to come to grips with about America. Reagan enabled us 56 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: to recover from Carter, which was an enormous achievement, but 57 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: because of the institutional failure of the Republican Party to 58 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 1: gain a working control of the governments of America, we 59 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: are like a patient who has recovered enough to have 60 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: an operation. But the truth is for America and Americans 61 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: that we are in deep trouble, and until we have 62 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 1: the moral courage to say it bluntly and not be 63 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: intimidated by the difficulty of saying, this is our ninth 64 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: year in the White House and we are in deep trouble. Now, 65 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 1: why do I say we're in deep trouble? Because this 66 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 1: is the beginning of the nineties, not the end of 67 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 1: the eighties, and the nineties have to be a decade 68 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 1: of reform if the twenty first century is going to 69 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 1: be a century of prosperity in freedom and safety, and 70 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 1: unless we launch a reform movement of crusade like proportions, 71 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 1: we are not going to leave our children a country 72 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: capable of leading the planet. The fact is, if you 73 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: look at our biggest cities, if you look at our 74 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: education system, if you look at our welfare system, if 75 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: you look at the skyrocketing healthcare cost line with collapsing 76 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:05,279 Speaker 1: inner city health scare services, that in area after area, 77 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: we have trend lines that resemble Argentina, not America. When 78 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: forty five percent of our children drop out of the 79 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,840 Speaker 1: New York City schools, and that doesn't count the ones 80 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: who had diplomas that they can't read, forty five percent 81 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: actually are dropping out. You cannot have a democracy in 82 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 1: a country where only forty percent of your college graduates 83 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: know what century the Civil War was fought in. How 84 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 1: can you have a public dialogue when most of your 85 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 1: country can't find France on a map. And that's what's 86 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 1: happening with the younger generation. The set the education crisis 87 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:45,600 Speaker 1: in America is greater than the crisis in drugs and 88 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 1: violent crime. It is a deeper cancer because it attacks 89 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: two of our most fundamental values. It makes it very 90 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 1: very difficult, if not impossible, to have a democracy, representative 91 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: government where we have a debate about public issues implying 92 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 1: public acknowledge. And it is impossible to compete in the 93 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,720 Speaker 1: world market when you can't do the math, you can't 94 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 1: do the science, and you're not skilled enough and qualitatively 95 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 1: tough enough mentally to do the kind of work the 96 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 1: information age requires. Now, this is a crisis of the 97 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: first order, and we haven't used the language of crisis. 98 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 1: We haven't talked with a sense of urgency. We haven't 99 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,360 Speaker 1: held the systems accountable. But let me carry you a 100 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 1: stage further. We have invented a welfare system which is 101 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: actively destructive of human beings. Not forget all the standard 102 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: conservative rhetoric about what it does to the taxpayer and 103 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,599 Speaker 1: the waste of money, and think instead about the people 104 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: who are involved. I'll give you a simple test. If 105 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:47,840 Speaker 1: twins arrive as immigrants in America, Korean, West, Indian, doesn't 106 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:51,559 Speaker 1: matter where they come from, and one of them gets 107 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,919 Speaker 1: off the airplane and meets an American welfare worker and 108 00:06:56,040 --> 00:07:00,119 Speaker 1: they get help, and they get into public housing, they 109 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 1: get on AFDC and they get food stamps and they 110 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 1: learn to be a welfare client. But the other one, 111 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: who didn't quite get lucky, doesn't get any help from 112 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 1: the American government, just has to go out and get 113 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 1: a job, and they only get minimum weights, so they 114 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 1: have to get a job in the evening to supplement 115 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: the job in the daytime, and they can only afford 116 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: to rent a little room in a building, and they 117 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: save a lot of their money because they don't have 118 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 1: any help from the government. Ten years after the twins arrive, 119 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: the one we have been helping will be trapped in 120 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: a decaying six system and their children will have a 121 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: pathetic future, and the one we couldn't help will be 122 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: prosperous in buying a store and opening up the future. Now, 123 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: a country which builds and sustains a bureaucracy which destroys 124 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: people is a country which is crazy and which is 125 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 1: going to have a terrible future. And yet we do 126 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: not have the moral courage to tell the truth. The 127 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 1: fact is, we are waiting for gold Water and Reagan 128 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: to come again. We are waiting for people to come 129 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: again who stand up and tell the blunt truth and 130 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: don't worry about the second and third order consequences, and 131 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: don't worry about being misunderstood, because they know if you 132 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: tell the truth long enough, that this is a country 133 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: where one man in the truth is a majority. And 134 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 1: Emerson was right, and it can happen. So let me 135 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,079 Speaker 1: tell you the truth. The truth is both the Department 136 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: of Defense bureaucracy and the City of New York as 137 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 1: a system our failures. The truth is both have to 138 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 1: be overhauled from the ground up. The truth is we've 139 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,599 Speaker 1: invented a bureaucratic structure in the Pentagon so destructive of 140 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:47,840 Speaker 1: procurement that we cannot field a new tank within the 141 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,319 Speaker 1: same cycle as the Soviets. Now, this is a country 142 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 1: which fields new products every year as long as they're 143 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 1: in the private sector. We have allowed the liberal Democrats 144 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: and people who's presumption is if you try to produce 145 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 1: something in defense, you must be bad, to create a 146 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: system of procurement so stupid that we have reinvented the 147 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 1: Soviet consumer production system. And if you think I exaggerate, 148 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 1: asked Jim or any member of the Armed Services Committee. 149 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 1: And we don't have the moral nerve to stack up 150 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 1: the regulations and say this is dumb. And any liberal 151 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 1: Democrat who wants to preserve the right to disarm America 152 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: by red tape, fine, because that's what you're doing. You're 153 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 1: raising the cost of the taxpayer and orering the defense 154 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: of the soldier. And it's even more true of New 155 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: York City. The Democratic Party owns New York City. The 156 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: Democratic Party has owned New York City for a half century. 157 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: And we don't have the moral nerve to stand up 158 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: and say, every poor person in New York City who 159 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 1: is betrayed by the machine, every child who is betrayed 160 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 1: by the school system, every person who is trapped by 161 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: a unionized bureaucracy that doesn't care about the poor, that 162 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 1: uses the poor as an excuse to enrich itself, and 163 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: that is the modern big city Democratic party. The city 164 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: may decay, but by God, they'll have the mayor's office 165 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: on top of the rubble. And we don't have the 166 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: nerve to say it and to walk in that city 167 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 1: and to be the active personal ally of every American 168 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 1: who wants a chance at the American dream. Similarly, we 169 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 1: don't have a problem with violent crime and drugs. We 170 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:31,120 Speaker 1: have a problem with abandoning a system that used to work. 171 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 1: In nineteen fifty one, there were three times as many 172 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 1: policemen in Buffalo, New York per violent crime as there 173 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 1: are today, three times as many policemen. Now, what has happened? 174 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: Have the city government's gotten tinier? Are there fewer employees? No, 175 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: we have replaced cops with welfare workers. We can't protect 176 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: you from being mugged, but somebody will hold your hand 177 00:10:54,840 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: during the process of recovery. If you think I exaggerate, 178 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: The city of Washington, d C. Has forty six thousand 179 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:18,079 Speaker 1: employees approssion, the same number as the government of Switzerland. 180 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: Four thousand of them are policemen. Now, we simply adopted 181 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 1: a rule that's said, by attrition, half of all the 182 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 1: vacancies for the next six years have to be replaced 183 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 1: by policeman. We would probably double the number of policemen 184 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:34,599 Speaker 1: in Washington at no cost anybody except, of course, the 185 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: unionized bureaucracism. And yet the left doesn't like policemen because 186 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 1: they represent repression, and the right doesn't like to talk 187 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: about more policemen because they represent cost. And so there 188 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 1: is no party that actively advocates enough policeman and enough 189 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:54,440 Speaker 1: prosecutors and enough prisons and says this is not a 190 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: hard problem. You find a really violent fifteen year old 191 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:00,200 Speaker 1: in Central Park, and you know how to sel it. 192 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 1: You lock them up to they're too old to be violent. 193 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: I mean, we know how to do that. Instead, instead, 194 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: what do we do. We adopt juvenile delinquency laws which 195 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: lead gang rapists to sing in the jail because they 196 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 1: know they won't be prosecuted. Now, that's not their fault, 197 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 1: and it's not the victim's fault. It's the fault of 198 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: a country which tolerates a legal system which is self destructive. 199 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 1: And yet we don't stand up and say that. We 200 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 1: don't take it on head on, and we're afraid if 201 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 1: we talk about crime we'll be racist. The number one 202 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 1: victims of crime in America to day are black, and 203 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: I am sick and tired of being told that the 204 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: effort to protect an innocent black woman or an innocent 205 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:47,559 Speaker 1: black child is by definition rapists because somehow Willie Horton 206 00:12:47,600 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: will feel bad. But the problems intellectually even bigger than this. 207 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 1: It's not just that the system has failed. I think 208 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:17,959 Speaker 1: every objective indicator we have is that the liberal welfare 209 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,079 Speaker 1: state and unionize bureaucracies are failed. Goes deeper than that. 210 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 1: We are in the middle of a technological revolution of 211 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: enormous power. The computer, television, satellites, all the things you 212 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:30,679 Speaker 1: know about, and all the things you know use in 213 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 1: everyday life. Where a country where you walk through a 214 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:37,560 Speaker 1: grocery store to have people use a laser gun, to 215 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 1: have a computer read what you just bought, to reorder 216 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 1: and restock while ringing up your bill, and you have 217 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 1: a government whose model of bureaucracy emerged before the typewriter. 218 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 1: Every successful corporation in the world market is restructuring itself 219 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 1: to meet the problems of the computer and the opportunities 220 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:01,440 Speaker 1: of technology. The only stems in America, they're not being 221 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 1: restructured or government. And yet our friends in the left say, 222 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,080 Speaker 1: let's not reform the public sector, let's go after the 223 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 1: things that are wrong in the private sector. Why don't 224 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 1: I give you a challenge. If you had ten dollars 225 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty and you have in constant dollars the 226 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: same amount of money in nineteen eighty nine, WHI should 227 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 1: be about thirty three dollars with inflation, and you're poor. 228 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: You have more choices to spend your money in more places, 229 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: for more products at better quality in nineteen eighty nine. 230 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 1: As long as it's the private sector, you want to 231 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 1: choose fast foods, you want to choose movies, you want 232 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 1: to choose videotapes, you want to choose cable TV, you 233 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 1: want to choose anything which is private clothing. You have 234 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 1: more choices in the private sector. But in every aspect 235 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 1: of the public sector, your life has gone down. Your 236 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: public housing is worse, your schools are worse, your protection 237 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: by the police is worse, your healthcare is worse. Because 238 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 1: they're all public. Monopolies and monopolies decay because monopolies don't 239 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: serve the customer. Monopolies serve the people in the monopoly, 240 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: as it was described in Wisconsin recently when Governor Tommy 241 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: Thompson offered a dramatic reform program to allow the poorest 242 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 1: parents in the poorest school district and inner city Milwaukee 243 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: a choice of sending their children to any school that 244 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: would work. And the teacher's union representatives said, this is 245 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: not an education issue. This is a job's issue, and 246 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 1: they had explained what was sick about America to day. 247 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 1: But it isn't the children, It isn't the learning, it 248 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 1: isn't the future. It's the structure of the bureaucracy and 249 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: whether or not the Democratic Party and their union allies 250 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 1: are taken care of. Now, what has the challenged us? 251 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: I want to challenge every one of you to be bold. 252 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: I want to challenge every one of you, first of all, 253 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 1: to set the stage for yourself. Think of what you're 254 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 1: seeing on television, Glass noosed, Parastroika Gorbachoff, extraordinary changes in Mexico, 255 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: Warsaw having a non communist premiere, the Hungarian Communist Party 256 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 1: giving up its name in the middle of the scale 257 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 1: of change that Ronald Reagan created. Shouldn't we have the 258 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 1: same courage in America? Shouldn't we be as willing to change, 259 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: as willing to rethink as willing to orient ourselves, and 260 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 1: if we're going to be I think that there are 261 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: some very specific things we have to face up to. 262 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: The Democrats historically have a hard time being bold about 263 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 1: reform because it is their ideology and their allies, and 264 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 1: I don't think we should expect them or ask the 265 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: Democratic leadership to understand what we're talking about. They can't 266 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 1: get past their lobbyists and their supporters, and their unions, 267 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 1: and their bureaucracy and their left wing values to think 268 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 1: openly about it. And it's not their fault. It is 269 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 1: who they are. They are the party of the big 270 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 1: city machine. They are the party of the unionized bureaucracy. 271 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: They are the party of socialism and its American form. 272 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 1: But the Republicans, I think, have had an equally hard 273 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 1: time talking candidly about this for three reasons. First, our 274 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 1: conservatism has been opposition and anti government. The legacy of 275 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,359 Speaker 1: Herbert Hoover was to be against government. Let me suggest 276 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,399 Speaker 1: something to you that's very profound. This is the ninth 277 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 1: year we have the White House. You know, we all 278 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: in this room grew up against Lyndon Johnson, against the 279 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: Great Society, against McGovern, against Carter. Now we have this 280 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: huge problem. The country agrees less the country. The country 281 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:41,959 Speaker 1: says in overwhelming numbers, Yeah they're dumb. So what are 282 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 1: you going to do? And that leads to the requirement 283 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:50,400 Speaker 1: to make the very difficult and challenging transition from an 284 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 1: opposition conservatism to a governing conservatism, from advocating anti left 285 00:17:55,840 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 1: wing government to advocating conservative government. Now not had since 286 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:03,840 Speaker 1: Theodore Roosevelt a Republican effort to think through what is 287 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:07,440 Speaker 1: conservative government? What are the values we have? But that's 288 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:09,719 Speaker 1: the first problem with that, that our whole value system 289 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 1: has been to be against. So we finished criticizing New 290 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 1: York City and we walk off. I think, good enough. 291 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 1: What's our model of New York City? What's our model 292 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: of Chicago? What's our model of Denver. Second, to be 293 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: very honest, I'm going to say something that some of 294 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:27,919 Speaker 1: you will be uncomfortable with. I'm gonna say it anyway, 295 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: because I think the truth has to be told. Truth 296 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 1: is very often we didn't worry if they weren't our constituents. 297 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:43,959 Speaker 1: Let's be honest from any here. We have a profound, 298 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,120 Speaker 1: decisive moment in American history that we are now living 299 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 1: in that is us. It's not anybody else else with 300 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: Mickey Edwards yesterday. Mickey Edwards is a great leader of 301 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:55,959 Speaker 1: the Policy Committee. In nineteen seventy seven made a really 302 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:59,400 Speaker 1: dramatic speech at the Young Republican National Convention about how 303 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:01,639 Speaker 1: weak the public leadership was. It was not a very 304 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:03,439 Speaker 1: smart speech to the House of Publican leaders read it 305 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:05,200 Speaker 1: and for the following six years he did not get 306 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: in appropriations. But it was a speech he honestly felt 307 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: since in nineteen seventy seven it had been twenty three 308 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 1: years since we were a majority. Well, he and I 309 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 1: were together yesterday and I pointed at him, it's now 310 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 1: been longer. And by the way, where now the people? 311 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:27,399 Speaker 1: He described, So, what are we going to do? And 312 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 1: we have this historic, wonderful moment that Ronald Reagan and 313 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:34,160 Speaker 1: George Bush have created for us, this opportunity. We once 314 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:36,360 Speaker 1: wrote a book called Window of Opportunity, which I recommend 315 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:46,159 Speaker 1: to all of you. It's available in paperback. And and 316 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:49,719 Speaker 1: this is a window of opportunity that Reagan and Bush 317 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: have created, a moment in time that is very precious 318 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:54,679 Speaker 1: for us to take care of. But it starts with 319 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 1: this premise, if we are going to care that a 320 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 1: nine year old girl in the ghetto says the pledge 321 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:05,400 Speaker 1: of allegiance. Then we have to care about the rest 322 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:09,360 Speaker 1: of her day and the rest of her life. Now, 323 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 1: that is a Republican party, and that means actively thinking 324 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:23,919 Speaker 1: beyond our immediate precinct, in our immediate office, in our 325 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 1: immediate situation, to truly be the party of all Americans. Further, 326 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:32,880 Speaker 1: we are trapped a little bit, and I'm very sensitive 327 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 1: to this. We are trapped a little bit because we 328 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 1: have controlled the White House for seventeen out of twenty 329 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 1: one years, because we have the presidency, and we've made 330 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 1: the intellectual mistake of thinking that having the presidency is 331 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 1: the same as having the government, and it's not. But 332 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 1: we get trapped a little bit because, after all, the 333 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 1: president has to make the system work every day. The 334 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 1: president can't take the kind of radical gambles that an 335 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: opposition party can take. President has to actually be responsible 336 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:06,120 Speaker 1: and cautious and know what he's doing. But that shouldn't 337 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 1: prevent the rest of us, with George Bush's blessing, from 338 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: inventing an absolute explosion of reform ideas and trying them 339 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 1: out at the county and the school board in the 340 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: city and the state level, and throwing them into the 341 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 1: legislative hopper and letting a ferment of a thousand reform 342 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,199 Speaker 1: proposals bubble, so that the President can then pick the 343 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,679 Speaker 1: ones that make sense after two or three years of debate, 344 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: and the President can include them in the State of 345 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 1: the Union, because we've all done the work, We've done 346 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,359 Speaker 1: the scouting, we've cleared the field, we've planted the crop, 347 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 1: and the President can come along and then gratefully help 348 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: us with the harvest of good ideas. But all too 349 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:43,919 Speaker 1: many of us are sat back and said, well, the 350 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 1: presidents the lead. And I plead guilty because for years 351 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 1: now that I'm in a web's possession, now that I'm 352 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 1: in the room in a regular basis, I had never 353 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 1: understood how there really is serious. This is the leader 354 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:58,720 Speaker 1: of the free world, president ed States, and he can't 355 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,679 Speaker 1: afford to have ninety ideas. I can. I'm only the 356 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:11,120 Speaker 1: will now. If we are going to learn from those 357 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: three lessons, and if we are going to meet the challenge, 358 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: let me just tell you how I think we're going 359 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 1: to do it. We are going to develop a caring, 360 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: humanitarian reform Republican Party and we're going to mean all 361 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,360 Speaker 1: three words. We're going to truly care about the nine 362 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 1: year old and everyone else. We're going to care about 363 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: the physically challenge. And I thought that was such a 364 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 1: wonderful moment to have that kind of cooperation from the 365 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:39,680 Speaker 1: private sector and the government on behalf of greater opportunities 366 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 1: for all Americans under all circumstances. And that's what we 367 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 1: should stand for. And if we're going to be a 368 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 1: caring party, then as we learn things, we have to 369 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: be a humanitarian party, and that means a willingness to 370 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:57,439 Speaker 1: set a tough standard. Compassion is a good word, but 371 00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 1: it's not strong enough. We can't just say, gee, we 372 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:01,679 Speaker 1: feel sorry that you're sitting here on the street, or ge, 373 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: we feel sorry they have this problem. We have to 374 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 1: apply our conservative principles and our fundamental values to set 375 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 1: the standard of what is the situation I wish my 376 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: daughter was in, what's the situation I wish that my 377 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 1: son in law is in. How do I hope that 378 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,480 Speaker 1: my mother will be taken care of? And how do 379 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 1: I try to maximize the chance at a humanitarian level 380 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,119 Speaker 1: that this country can live up to that challenge And 381 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 1: to be very Blunt. If we are a caring and 382 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,400 Speaker 1: a humanitarian party, we're going to be a reform party 383 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:34,160 Speaker 1: because the royfare states, unionized bureaucracies are simply disintegrating. Now 384 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 1: as we become a reform party, we're going to start 385 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 1: developing a governing conservatism. We're going to apply conservative principles 386 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,639 Speaker 1: in cooperation with the people we're trying to help. And 387 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,480 Speaker 1: I'll give you four words that you really ought to 388 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 1: think about and learn and apply because they're the key 389 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 1: model to how we become the party for all Americans 390 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:59,359 Speaker 1: who want a better future. First, we have to listen 391 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:03,360 Speaker 1: to the people think we're going to help. We're all 392 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 1: sorts of philosophical principles. We've always saw them. Just walk 393 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 1: into the local precinct, knock on the door, visit the church, 394 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 1: drop into the local coffee shop, and just listen and 395 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 1: find out what are the realities they live in, what 396 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,479 Speaker 1: do they think is going on? And then if our 397 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,159 Speaker 1: defining start on any public housing project in America and 398 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 1: just walk in and say, I'd will like to know 399 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:23,959 Speaker 1: what you're going through and what you wish you were 400 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: going through, and I'd like to see if I can help. 401 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 1: When we listen by the way, it can't just be transactional. 402 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 1: Can't be sure I'm glad I'm here. Sure, I'm glad 403 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 1: you're here, aren't you glad I came here? You have 404 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 1: to go to a second word. You have to learn. 405 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:40,359 Speaker 1: The truth is, we don't know enough about America. We 406 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,120 Speaker 1: don't know enough about all the folks of this great country. 407 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,199 Speaker 1: We aren't tied in enough with all the possibilities. And 408 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 1: as we listen and learn, we're going to find that 409 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,920 Speaker 1: about half the time we can offer common sense help 410 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: because they just don't know what's going on in certain ways. 411 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 1: And we have access, and we have opportunity, and we 412 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,719 Speaker 1: have experiences, and together by listening and learning and helping, 413 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 1: we're going to improve things. And when a person has 414 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 1: had an activist, a citizen walk in and listen and 415 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 1: learn and help, they're going to be prepared to turn 416 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 1: to you and say, now lead. And if you follow 417 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,680 Speaker 1: the model of listen, learn, help and lead, if you say, 418 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,360 Speaker 1: we know our principles are right, but we don't necessarily 419 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 1: know how to apply them in your life, So tell 420 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,399 Speaker 1: me about your life so that together we can sort 421 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 1: all this out, and together we can change America. Now, 422 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 1: as we succeed. Let me give you one warning, and 423 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 1: it's a warning that many of you in the West 424 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 1: have already learned the hard way. We're going to be 425 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 1: too big a group to always be pleasant with each other. 426 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,399 Speaker 1: We're going to have a lot of fights. When you 427 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 1: get to be big enough to be a majority, you 428 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:47,919 Speaker 1: have to shift from conflict resolution to conflict management. You know, 429 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 1: when you're a minority and you get in a fight 430 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 1: you started the morning you're a minority, you kick out 431 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:58,680 Speaker 1: the five people who are fighting. You're still a minority. 432 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: When you're a majority and you get in a fight, 433 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,440 Speaker 1: you can't afford to kick anybody out because you then 434 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:10,400 Speaker 1: will qualitatively cease to be a majority. So that means, 435 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you have to wake up every 436 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:16,200 Speaker 1: morning with a cheerful persistence that says, gosh, I wonder 437 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,320 Speaker 1: what we're going to do today to mess up. I 438 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 1: wonder how we're going to fight each other today. I 439 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,159 Speaker 1: wonder what brand new thing? You know. We didn't know 440 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:27,199 Speaker 1: that having the leading Samoan in downtown Portland sit at 441 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 1: the head table was going to infuriate nineteen other ethnic 442 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,119 Speaker 1: groups who also wanted to be at the head table 443 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,920 Speaker 1: and we're going to now have to solve this problem. 444 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 1: And we didn't know and you're going to find all 445 00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 1: you're going to find. You use the wrong words, sometimes 446 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 1: you deal with the wrong people. You inevitably didn't have 447 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 1: enough time, and you never we didn't do enough things. 448 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,920 Speaker 1: And by the way, there are nine serious ideological fights, 449 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,159 Speaker 1: two of which involved whether when we go in the 450 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,199 Speaker 1: goat standard we should do it in one pound blocks 451 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 1: or five pound blocks. And those two factions who said 452 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 1: they're walking unless we pick their version. And I have 453 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:01,399 Speaker 1: to before the Gold Center so I can say that 454 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,159 Speaker 1: was some passion I personal name a one pounder, but 455 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 1: that's not I won't get into it. And you've just 456 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 1: got to relax a little bit. And you've got to 457 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: say to yourself, isn't it wonderful we're growing into a majority. 458 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,920 Speaker 1: Now let me carry your stuff further. And I want 459 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 1: to say this, and I want to preface this with 460 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 1: something because I'm gonna say some very tough things about 461 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,920 Speaker 1: the Republican Party as a party and an institution. This 462 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 1: is not about Lee Atwater, it's not about Genie Austen. 463 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: It is not in any way about Ed Rollins. Those 464 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 1: are wonderful people. I work with them every day. They're 465 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 1: doing a wonderful job. But once again, we don't have 466 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,200 Speaker 1: the luxury like the socialist of sitting back here and saying, boy, 467 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,480 Speaker 1: I sure hope they solve it in Washington. Remember, our 468 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:45,399 Speaker 1: ideology says local, decentralized us, individual responsibility. So I'm going 469 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: to say it's not about any person, It's about the 470 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 1: culture I've spent my intire doll life in. And I 471 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: want to start with this notion the American people are 472 00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:00,360 Speaker 1: more ready to take power away from the left than 473 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 1: we are to work with the American people. I want 474 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: to give you some numbers just to sober and think about, 475 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 1: because when I first read them, I couldn't believe it, 476 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:27,760 Speaker 1: and it changed my whole life. In nineteen sixty eight, 477 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,879 Speaker 1: the left got forty three percent of the vote forty 478 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 1: three percent. Four years after the high water mark of 479 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 1: Lenman Johnson in nineteen seventy two, they dropped to thirty 480 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: eight percent. In nineteen seventy six, we had collapsed because 481 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: of Watergate. They didn't nominate the left winger Jimmy Carter 482 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 1: ran as a Southern Baptist populist against the liberals. Beat 483 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,480 Speaker 1: every liberal in the primaries ran slightly to the right 484 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 1: of Gerald Ford and the in polling date on election day. 485 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: On social values, he was to the right and there 486 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 1: was no liberal on the bettlet. In nineteen eighty Jimmy 487 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: Carter had collapsed, and yet he beat Edward Kennedy in 488 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 1: the primaries. Use Kennedy was a real liberal. Jimmy Carter 489 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 1: got forty one percent. In nineteen eighty four, Walter Mondale 490 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 1: went to San Francisco. He stood up and said, with 491 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 1: great pride, I really am a liberal, and I really 492 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:29,959 Speaker 1: will raise your taxes. The country said, yes, we were 493 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 1: afraid of that. The guy got forty one percent. In 494 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight. It took us until October to get 495 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 1: du Caucus to use the word liberal. He was nineteen 496 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,200 Speaker 1: points ahead. In May. We had, for the first time 497 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: since eighteen thirty six elected a sitting vice president. It 498 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 1: had not been done in one hundred and fifty two years. 499 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 1: On election day, there are two things to moote. We 500 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 1: got fifty four percent of the vote, he got the 501 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 1: left at forty six. And yet if everyone had voted, 502 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 1: And this is very important for you to lock in 503 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,160 Speaker 1: your head and really think through for a long time. 504 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 1: It is a revolution as big as gorbushaw. If everyone 505 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 1: had voted, our share would have gone up. That has 506 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 1: never been true in my lifetime until nineteen eighty eight. 507 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,520 Speaker 1: If all Americans had voted, we would have gotten fifty 508 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 1: seven percent, and Duccas would have been a forty three 509 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 1: in my judgment. If we could have gotten you in 510 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 1: the tank one more time, he'd been down to forty one. 511 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 1: But we didn't get there. Now, in that setting, I 512 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 1: want you to think about this runt. There has been 513 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 1: a center right coalition against the left since nineteen sixty eight, 514 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 1: and yet we as a party have not grown enough. 515 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 1: And the challenge to us and this is not easy. 516 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 1: And I really appreciate the way Jim said a while ago, 517 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,640 Speaker 1: because it is the first time I've heard a Republican 518 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,720 Speaker 1: member of Congress face up to it and say it right. 519 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,520 Speaker 1: What we have to do is decide we're going to 520 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,520 Speaker 1: be a majority. We're going to try to be a 521 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 1: majority in ninety We're going to try to be a 522 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,000 Speaker 1: majority in ninety two. We're gonna try to be a 523 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 1: majority of ninety four, and we're just going to keep 524 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 1: going at it until we break through. And that means 525 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 1: you're run in every district every year. It means you 526 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,520 Speaker 1: challenge the Democrats every day. It means you figure out 527 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,040 Speaker 1: how to have a permanent opposition party in every district. 528 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 1: It means you reach out and recruit. But let me 529 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:31,480 Speaker 1: carry a step further. If we're going to make Jim 530 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 1: Hanson chairman instead of ranking member, we have to apply 531 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: three principles. First, mobilizing the young, second, creating an agenda 532 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 1: worth voting for, and third growing big enough by forming 533 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,280 Speaker 1: an alliance with the American people. And let me just 534 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 1: very briefly explain these, As I said a while ago, 535 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 1: for the first time in America in my lifetime, we 536 00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 1: are so much more the party of the young and 537 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 1: are so much less likely to vote that if everybody 538 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,880 Speaker 1: had voted in nineteen eighty eight, we'd have gone to 539 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 1: fifty seven percent. Now, let me tell you something about 540 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 1: how dumb we are as a party. And I mean 541 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,600 Speaker 1: this bluntly, and we've got to confront it and we've 542 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 1: got to get over it. In nineteen eighty six, for 543 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:20,360 Speaker 1: the first time in history, young black males were more 544 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:24,320 Speaker 1: likely to vote than young white males. Now, if we 545 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 1: had had normative white male turnout in nineteen eighty six, 546 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,600 Speaker 1: just a normal white male turnout for people under thirty five, 547 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 1: we'd have kept control of the Senate. Now that's not 548 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,760 Speaker 1: a complicated problem. I'll tell you this now, as you 549 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 1: plan for nineteen ninety, if you don't have activist groups 550 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 1: in every high school, and you don't have activist groups 551 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 1: at every votech school, and you don't have activist groups 552 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 1: at every college, you are not gone where the ducks are. 553 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,160 Speaker 1: A majority of the ducks in younger America are Republican. 554 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,680 Speaker 1: According to the latest Big study. It's fifty two thirty 555 00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:59,840 Speaker 1: eight Republican if you're under thirty. But we are a 556 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,960 Speaker 1: party which is used to organizing adults over forty five. 557 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 1: I mean, the challenge, for example, to the Women's Federation 558 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,320 Speaker 1: has to be, how do you organize single women who 559 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 1: are working, who are twenty six years old. The challenge 560 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 1: to all of us has to be, you know, if 561 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:21,440 Speaker 1: we don't triple the younger turnout in nineteen ninety, we're 562 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,760 Speaker 1: just dumb. Now, this is not easy, and I'm not 563 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,719 Speaker 1: saying this is a very hard thing to do, but 564 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 1: it's a clear thing to set as a principle. And 565 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:34,240 Speaker 1: let me make a suggestion to you. You start by 566 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,640 Speaker 1: putting it the highest single item on your priority. You 567 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,120 Speaker 1: think about it every day, you talk about it every day, 568 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 1: and you work at it every day, and eventually enough 569 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:45,600 Speaker 1: of us will do it long enough that some of 570 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,240 Speaker 1: us will be smart enough to get a breakthrough, and 571 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,240 Speaker 1: then the rest of us will steal it. And that's 572 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 1: the only way we're going to get there. But any 573 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,800 Speaker 1: Republican party, in any campaign in this country which doesn't 574 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,680 Speaker 1: start every morning by asking how we're mobilizing the young, 575 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,960 Speaker 1: is failing to make the historic breakthrough. There's a second point. 576 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,760 Speaker 1: We have to have an agenda worth voting for. I'm 577 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,600 Speaker 1: going to give you some numbers you have never heard 578 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 1: that are startling. The real election results of nineteen eighty eight, 579 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:16,520 Speaker 1: measured in adults was twenty three percent for du Caucus, 580 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:23,480 Speaker 1: twenty seven percent for Bush, and fifty percent. Who cares. Now, 581 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,279 Speaker 1: there's a lesson in this. The way we who have 582 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,400 Speaker 1: been in the business for a long time run politics 583 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,399 Speaker 1: is simple. We say, all right, now, if we got 584 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,480 Speaker 1: if there's fifty percent there, if I could get du 585 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,480 Speaker 1: Caucus down to twenty two and Bush up to twenty eight, boy, 586 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,760 Speaker 1: that'd be a great campaign. Well, let me ask you something. 587 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 1: If you have a fifty percent market share that hasn't 588 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:46,719 Speaker 1: been tapped yet, and your corporation and your choice is, 589 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: let's put in a product line to compete with the 590 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,360 Speaker 1: other guy inside the current market. Or what if we 591 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,760 Speaker 1: found a new product line that brought in the fifty 592 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,960 Speaker 1: percent who aren't voting. In nineteen thirty six, that happened. 593 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,640 Speaker 1: People remember the FDR land And I'm not suggesting you 594 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,520 Speaker 1: live to God, but you've you've studied the FDR land 595 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,759 Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty six results land and did better than 596 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,359 Speaker 1: Herbert Hoover. You brought in a million more votes than 597 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:18,000 Speaker 1: Herbert Hoover. FDR brought in seven million. They drowned the 598 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:21,879 Speaker 1: Republican Party. Well, what's our potential for doing that? We're 599 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,319 Speaker 1: doing better with young people. We are seen now as 600 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,240 Speaker 1: a party that's competent. The other party is a party 601 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 1: that if we are aggressive about reform, they become the 602 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:35,440 Speaker 1: defenders of a decaying status quo. My challenge is real simple. 603 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,120 Speaker 1: Our goal for nineteen ninety two should be defined a 604 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,640 Speaker 1: set of issues worth voting for. It's a very simple model. 605 00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:44,040 Speaker 1: Listen to learn help lead. Does this explain how you 606 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,160 Speaker 1: might be better off and buying a house and enough 607 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,360 Speaker 1: that you'll go registered to vote. No, well, let me 608 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,120 Speaker 1: try the next one. I mean, you just listen to 609 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,680 Speaker 1: people long enough until you let them tell you what 610 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,960 Speaker 1: they what they want, let them tell you what they'll 611 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,440 Speaker 1: vote for, and then you have to apply your conservative 612 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,759 Speaker 1: philosophy to help them get what they want. But when 613 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,360 Speaker 1: we invent and agenda worth voting for if our goal 614 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:08,000 Speaker 1: is to increase turnout fifteen percentage points with us getting 615 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,760 Speaker 1: two out of three, so the result in nineteen ninety 616 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:16,399 Speaker 1: two is thirty seven percent for George Bush, twenty eight 617 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:22,200 Speaker 1: percent for the Democrat. Now we've had a revolution, and 618 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:26,480 Speaker 1: then is the last thing we have to confront. The 619 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,319 Speaker 1: fact is we are not big enough to play in 620 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:33,440 Speaker 1: the big leagues. The Republican Party is like a medium 621 00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:37,160 Speaker 1: science college football team going to the super Bowl. Because 622 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,160 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party isn't a party, we keep measuring the 623 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:45,200 Speaker 1: wrong indicators. The Democratic coalition is the party, the big 624 00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:49,400 Speaker 1: city machine, the labor unions, the left wing activist groups, 625 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:53,719 Speaker 1: and alliances with the news media and with academ that 626 00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,160 Speaker 1: is a huge system of power that is three or 627 00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,360 Speaker 1: four or five times bigger than we are, so what 628 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,480 Speaker 1: happens to us in special elections? They run a Secretary 629 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:09,000 Speaker 1: of State, two US Senate candidates. This is a big 630 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,000 Speaker 1: league party. They have bench strength at a scale we 631 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:16,799 Speaker 1: can't begin to play against. And there is no solution 632 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:22,000 Speaker 1: that grows the Republican Party rapidly enough. Again, I spent 633 00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,120 Speaker 1: almost thirty years in this business, and I'll just tell 634 00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,760 Speaker 1: you Flatman spent eleven years of planning at the NRCC. 635 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,560 Speaker 1: It is impossible for us to grow from here out 636 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:34,960 Speaker 1: fast enough. But there is a potential solution. We have 637 00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:39,239 Speaker 1: to consciously decide that we are going to be the 638 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,359 Speaker 1: allies of the American people, that we are going to 639 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:47,640 Speaker 1: reach out and inform and inspire and arouse the American people, 640 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,560 Speaker 1: that we're going to help them learn the game of politics, 641 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,439 Speaker 1: that we're going to work with them, and that we're 642 00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,920 Speaker 1: going to create a movement three times the size of 643 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,480 Speaker 1: the current Republican Party, which means we're going to give 644 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,359 Speaker 1: up a lot of control. You bring that many new 645 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,359 Speaker 1: people in, and that much new energy and that many 646 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,680 Speaker 1: new resources in, you're in a different league, You're in 647 00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:07,640 Speaker 1: a different game, and it's going to be a little 648 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,719 Speaker 1: scary to us. But I'll give you one example. Sixty 649 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:15,279 Speaker 1: thousand people ran for school board in Chicago this fall 650 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:21,359 Speaker 1: because for the very first time, they broke So if 651 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,920 Speaker 1: we start thinking about how do we become the friends 652 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,400 Speaker 1: of the American people? How are we the allies of 653 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,280 Speaker 1: the American people? How can we help the American people? 654 00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,560 Speaker 1: Rather than what we've always asked, at least every place's 655 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:33,920 Speaker 1: ever been, how can we get them to be a Republican? 656 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,960 Speaker 1: If we'll be their allies, they'll eventually figure out there 657 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,319 Speaker 1: with us. But that does mean giving up a lot 658 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,200 Speaker 1: of control and having a lot of stranger show up. 659 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:44,880 Speaker 1: And it does mean we have to drop that habit 660 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,000 Speaker 1: that every one of us has. The brand new person 661 00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:50,879 Speaker 1: walks in the room, we asked two questions, who are they? 662 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:56,160 Speaker 1: Why aren't they here last year? And we're going to 663 00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:59,880 Speaker 1: have to learn. We're going to learn to change that now. 664 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,799 Speaker 1: It is a huge challenge. I want to close with 665 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:08,960 Speaker 1: a true story yesterday, and I want to share from 666 00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,359 Speaker 1: the bottom of my heart how important I think where 667 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,640 Speaker 1: we're at is, what an enormous window of opportunity that 668 00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,200 Speaker 1: Reagan and Bush have given us, and how great the 669 00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:23,279 Speaker 1: burden on us is individually. Yesterday, morning, I met with 670 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:27,640 Speaker 1: eleven Soviet journalists, the editor of Pravda is Vestia, whole 671 00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:33,959 Speaker 1: group of Soviet publications. They ask questions that were so 672 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:39,320 Speaker 1: fundamental that it was one of the most extraordinary moments 673 00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,000 Speaker 1: of my life and I will never forget it, they said. 674 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:47,279 Speaker 1: They started by saying, we are inventing a congress. We 675 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,400 Speaker 1: have never had a real congress, and we want to 676 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:54,160 Speaker 1: know what does the whip do and how do you 677 00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:58,680 Speaker 1: function and how do you vote? And I began to 678 00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,160 Speaker 1: walk them through and I gave him. In fact, each 679 00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:02,719 Speaker 1: of them as a souvenir, got a copy of one 680 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:04,960 Speaker 1: of our whip cards that they could take back the shows, 681 00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:06,839 Speaker 1: you know, where we list members names, and we asked them, 682 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,080 Speaker 1: how are you going to vote on this? How are 683 00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:09,799 Speaker 1: you going to vote on that? And they said how 684 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:13,120 Speaker 1: much pressure do you bring to bear? I said, well, 685 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,399 Speaker 1: they elect me whip, so they are my customers. It's 686 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,239 Speaker 1: not much pressure, I said, think of it more like 687 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:28,400 Speaker 1: Gorbachoff than Stalin. None of them laughed, and then I 688 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,240 Speaker 1: took them into the House chamber because we weren't in session. 689 00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:37,560 Speaker 1: And one of them was a Latvian who was an 690 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:43,080 Speaker 1: editor and a member of the Congress, and I took 691 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,160 Speaker 1: him up and had him sit in the speaker's chair, 692 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,200 Speaker 1: and I asked the editor of prov to to stand 693 00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,280 Speaker 1: where the President the United States stands when he delivers 694 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:57,880 Speaker 1: the State of Union. And the editor was who was 695 00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:00,520 Speaker 1: a member of the Congress, who was a Latvian nationalist. 696 00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,320 Speaker 1: He said, I'm a communist because we were all communists 697 00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:05,560 Speaker 1: if we were active. But I belong to the People's 698 00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,719 Speaker 1: Front and I'm a Latvian Nationalist and we will never 699 00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:12,840 Speaker 1: again have Bolsheviks. This is just him passing to me 700 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:19,400 Speaker 1: as we walked up. He was physically trembling, and he 701 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:34,440 Speaker 1: came down and he said, I never never thought this 702 00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:41,239 Speaker 1: would happen. Now. What Jim was saying is that this 703 00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:46,719 Speaker 1: process of being speaker, this process of freedom, is spreading 704 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:51,879 Speaker 1: that because of Ronald Reagan, a sixty year old man 705 00:41:52,000 --> 00:42:07,919 Speaker 1: from Latvia. H I said differently, each of us has 706 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:13,560 Speaker 1: the chance in the next decade, one by one to 707 00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:17,440 Speaker 1: reach out to that nine year old black child, to 708 00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:22,840 Speaker 1: reach out to the Hispanic to rebuild our schools, to 709 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:38,279 Speaker 1: reclaim our streets. I apologize for being so emotional, but 710 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:49,120 Speaker 1: I can't quite communicate, or maybe maybe I'm communicating there's 711 00:42:49,160 --> 00:43:26,080 Speaker 1: a moment that's exactly wife. She just said to me, 712 00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:27,719 Speaker 1: that's what it's all about. And I guess what I'm 713 00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:29,839 Speaker 1: gonna finished. Briefly, I'll get emotional again. What I'm trying 714 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:34,160 Speaker 1: to say is because of our parents and our grandparents 715 00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:36,800 Speaker 1: and two hundred years of effort, because of Ronald Reagan 716 00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:40,320 Speaker 1: and George Bush, because of a lot of us all 717 00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:43,600 Speaker 1: over the world, there is a brief moment when freedom 718 00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:48,640 Speaker 1: could win. It's not George Bush's job, it's not Lee 719 00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:52,840 Speaker 1: at what his job, it's not Jim Hanson's job. Each 720 00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:56,280 Speaker 1: of you, every morning brush the teeth of the person 721 00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:00,840 Speaker 1: who is morally responsible for reforming America so that we 722 00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:09,160 Speaker 1: can continue freedom everywhere. Thank you and Goblis. 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