If you were afraid, and if you were doubters, and if you did not have vision, you would be in some ghost town somewhere instead of a State like Arizona and a city like Phoenix that is a Go-Go State and a Go-Go City. Do you know that by the year 2000--and we are really closer to the year 2000 now than we are to the year 1918 when we had our last war, even when I was born, 1908, we are pretty close to the year 2000--in the year 2000 Arizona's growth will be twice what it is in the rest of the Nation, the Nation's average. I do not want that to be repeated out where it gets back and drifts back over into Texas because some of my opponents over there will be saying I said Arizona is twice as good as Texas, and I do not want to say that. But I do say that your resources, your people, your management, your faith, your vision, your 20th century methods, your modern ideas, your great electronic industry and other industries that are coming to Arizona--that you will be growing twice as fast as the rest of the Nation in the year 2000. You have one problem, and it is a mighty big problem. I told you this was not going to be a political day and it is not. You get the wrong impression. You have one big problem, and that problem is--water. I never go down a corridor of the Capitol that Roy Elson does not catch me by my coattail and say, Cannot you help us with the problem of water in Arizona? I never went into the Appropriations Committee but what Carl Hayden did not catch me by the lapels of my coat. I am not that intimate with your other Senator, and I did not come out here to advertise him. He has talked to me a good many times about your water problem, and he wants to help on it. And he has wired me, urging me to take certain action in connection with water for Arizona. So it is not a partisan thing between Democrats and Republicans and Independents. We all have to find an answer to this water problem because that is going to be the answer to the 20th century. I will tell you what I am going to do about it. We are going to continue under the program that Stewart Udall has working now, and we are making progress on it every day.


I wonder if you would mind if I would communicate to you an odd thought that occurred to me, as I sat here. There was brought to me in emphatic form once, by an old soldier of mine, who reminded me that you could never tell what was around the corner in the world. When I first came back from Europe 2 years ago, and before my friends found that it was utterly futile and useless to try to make me appear better on the TV by the use of paints and stains, they had me in a little room one night, and the man was working very seriously on my face in an effort to do something about it. Finally, in this very preoccupied sort of job and atmosphere that was prevailing, he suddenly began to laugh. And he said to me, General, we have got ourselves in a funny fix. Do you know what I was in the war? He said, I was one of your paratroopers. What made me think of that this morning was the fact that when I first met Sam Sturgis, I was detailed as a young officer to coach a football team and I made him an end, and he worked pretty hard under me for some weeks and months. Today, I think that all of you would like for me to speak for you in commending him as a brilliant head of a great organization which not only here but throughout our land has built up these great works in flood control, in drainage, in water conservation, and power development-an organization of which not only the United States ENTITY but which America is proud. I am delighted to be here with you on this historic spot. Our Nation was only 16 years old when, from a point near here, two Americans of great courage--Lewis and Clark--pushed off and floated to the mouth of this great river. A little over a century ago, a man named McKay struggled over primitive paths in this area. A hundred and nine years ago., a frontiersman named McNary, with his family, reached this almost virgin land to establish his home. Both of these men had famous descendants--men who have contributed much to the extraordinary growth of the Northwest. From the McKay family came an able Governor and a dedicated Secretary of the Interior--Douglas McKay. From the McNarys came the great American whose name forevermore will distinguish this monumental work. Senator McNary believed deeply in the future of this country. He had the grit and determination to help build that future.

Address at the Dedication of McNary Dam, Walla Walla, Washington


In this endeavor he worked side by side with those men of vision of this region who, before the turn of the century, sought to open to navigation the upper reaches of the Columbia River. With that drive for an open river for water traffic came the natural development of hydro-electric power. Ten years ago, death denied Senator McNary the privilege of seeing his dream come true. But the will to build this dam lived after him. And may I pause to pay my personal tribute to Mrs. McNary, here with us today on the platform. That the will to build this dam survived-and that today this dam is built--are due to the spirit of distinguished citizens of this region. Especially are they due to an Oregonian who carried on Senator McNary's work and for the past 10 years has labored tirelessly to complete this project--my good friend, Senator Guy Cordon. I am mindful as well of the sustained effort of many Congressmen from this region, including particularly Congressman Hal Holmes, who have worked in behalf of this and other great projects here in the Northwest. Now, this massive dam, my friends, means much more than the steel and concrete, more than the genius and the effort that went into its building. It means more than the benefits and the progress--however great--that it will bring to this fortunate region. This structure symbolizes the purpose of using, for the benefit of all our people, the tremendous natural legacy with which the Almighty so abundantly endowed our land. Wisely and providently we must use and develop these resources, so that each succeeding generation of Americans may share in their benefits. It is for us to see that they shall not be wasted or neglected or denied to generations yet to come. Now, among these treasures of our land is water fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing when properly used--it can bring devastation and ruin when left uncontrolled. It is essential that every drop of water, from the moment that it falls upon our land, be turned to the service of our people. thus we will develop power, prevent floods, improve navigation, and supply our tremendous and growing domestic and industrial needs for water. So crucial to our future has water become, that I have assigned appropriate surveys and plans concerning it to a special committee of the Cabinet, and to the Hoover Commission as well.


These studies, when subjected to Congressional action, will undoubtedly result in the comprehensive water policy that this country has needed since its very beginning. The wise control of our water resources obviously requires the most skillful and comprehensive planning. This dam, for example, is designed to operate in coordination with similar structures, upstream and down. It is part of a plan to assure the full use of the water resources of this entire river system. McNary Dam is, therefore, representative of the coordination that must mark the development of all of our river systems. It is, moreover, an example of national responsibility properly assumed by the Federal Government. Just a mile and a half down river is another structure--the bridge at Umatilla. I am sure that you who live here are just as proud of that bridge as you are of this tremendous dam. You have every right to be. That bridge at Umatilla is an example of local responsibility properly assumed. A major difference between the two undertakings is in size. All of you know that when construction was started on McNary Dam, no local enterprise--public or private--could have financed it, so, realizing that the dam was necessary, the Federal Government gave its support. The bridge at Umatilla was a much smaller effort. Local enterprise-in this case the county government--was able to shoulder the $5 million loan that made that construction possible. And so, local enterprise did that job. These two structures illustrate an idea we have been applying in Washington for some 19 months. A century ago Abraham Lincoln put it better than anyone else has done. He said, The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves--in their separate and individual capacities. Now, in keeping with Lincoln's standard, the Federal Government has certain vital responsibilities in such fields relating to the control and use of water as flood control, improvement of navigation, and reclamation and development of land. When in the course of assuming these responsibilities, dams are built, then hydro-electric power is often developed, of great value to the surrounding regions and to the Nation. I hope that we shall soon have another example of Federal responsibility in the generation of power. I refer to the Libby Dam, which-like this great McNary Dam--is a project requiring the resources of the Federal Government.


From its location on the Canadian border, on a tributary of this mighty Columbia River, it will powerfully aid the control of floods, and produce a new means of generating power, all the way to the sea. I have recently acted to remove obstacles to the construction of that dam. A distinguished northwesterner, Governor Jordan of Idaho, has been named Chairman of the International Joint Commission. His intimate knowledge of this area and sound judgment will surely go far to speed fulfillment of our aims, and those of our Canadian neighbors. This project will be brought into existence. I shall continue to recommend Federal construction of such beneficial projects. Such activities as these, my friends, are obviously, as Lincoln said, the legitimate object of government. In all that the people can individually do for themselves, government ought not to interfere. It is not properly a Federal responsibility to try to supply all the power needs of our people. The Federal Government should no more attempt to do so than it should assume responsibility for supplying all their drinking water, their food, their housing, and their transportation. Parenthetically, may I remark that a region which lets itself become completely dependent upon national funds provided by a Congress-which Congress represents not that region alone but the whole Nation-would frequently find that the funds fail to keep pace with local needs. But the important thing is that as Federal power expands in a region-and I mean Federal authority and responsibility--local enterprise comes increasingly intimidated and discouraged, even though the needs for energy continue to grow. Such a conversion of local regions into Federal satellites poses a threat deadly to our liberties. The Administration in Washington--and the present leadership in Congress--are unalterably opposed to such malignant growth of bureaucracy. In our devotion to conservation, let us not forget that there are spiritual as well as physical values to protect. Above all else, we must protect the freedom and the spirit of independence of our people in our States and counties, in our cities and towns. Determination to have this kind of freedom gave us this Nation. It brought your ancestors to this Western country. That determination is not only the surest protector of our liberties, it is the principal ingredient in our national prosperity. Yet, there are some who contend that the development and distribution of hydro-electric power is exclusively the responsibility of the Federal Government. They argue that to permit any State or local government or any private company under governmental regulation to develop such power capacity is to give to a special group an asset belonging to all the Nation.


Indeed, in some instances, these disciples of centralized responsibility and authority insist that since the Federal Government should provide all hydro-electric power, it should likewise eliminate competition by providing steam-electric power as well. Only thus, these zealots would have us believe, can we poor citizens be protected against exploitation against what they call the predatory exponents of capitalism--that is, free enterprise. Now, let us have a quick look at this matter. In the first place it is, of course, not difficult to be generous with someone else's money. So the individual who wants to build power dams only with Federal money is not directly or particularly concerned with the economic necessity of the project or with the suitability of its location. Secondly, these advocates of centralized government shut their eyes to the remarkable development of this Nation during past decades. They must wonder how such prosperity came about when communities and citizens were free to look after themselves--including their own protection against the so-called local interests. These believers in centralization fail to warn us that monopoly is always potentially dangerous to freedom--even when monopoly is exercised by the Government. Curiously enough, they proclaim their fear of a private power monopoly in a county, city or State, but they urge upon us all a gigantic, overwhelming, nationwide power monopoly. But, of course, they also see themselves as the all-wise directors of that monopoly-so all would be well. monopoly, nor do they want a system leading toward it. They know The American people do not want and do not need to have any such they can have all the power capacity of our streams developed, as needed, without forfeiting the advantages of local responsibility and participation. Throughout our country are many public enterprises--organized years ago by States, municipalities, and other public agencies--which have long been in successful operation. In hundreds of other instances, power has been and is being provided by private enterprise under the regulatory processes in the particular governmental agency involved. In each instance the people directly concerned by such operations have themselves decided whether they are best served by public or by private agencies. The issue is not, therefore, public power versus unregulated private power. The issue posed to us is Federal monopoly of power, as against public or regulated power, freely chosen in each instance by the citizens of each area, with the Federal Government coming in as a cooperating partner where this seems necessary or desirable.


Last year, for example, State and local governments were invited to cooperate in power generation without the threat of Federal power control. During this brief period numerous local public agencies and private investors have applied for licenses to build hydro-electric plants. These applications in this Northwest region amount to nearly six million kilowatts. This represents a prospective investment of not less than one and one-half billion dollars. Well over half of this would be invested by public power--not private power--interests. But the seekers after Federal control of energy are not silenced even by this array of facts. They say that construction of power projects by local enterprise will impede the comprehensive development of this or other river basins. Now again--let us take a look at the facts. What they say just is not true. All power projects must be licensed by the Federal Power Commission. Before the Commission grants a license, it must see evidence that the project makes maximum use of the developed resources. It makes no difference who builds the projects-Federal, State, municipal, or private agencies. when a project is licensed before a non-Federal authority, it is not removed from public control. Rates and services remain under regulation. And when the licensing period ends, the site can be assumed by the Federal Government. that, here in the Northwest, your own public agencies and your own private companies--operating under both Federal regulation and your own eagle eyes out here--can work in the public interest at least as well as some far-off Federal agency. Through the Governors' Power Policy Committee, Governors Langlie, Patterson, Jordan, and Aronson are doing great work in assuring this area of adequate supplies of water. More benefits will flow from efforts to further inter-State cooperation on problems that cross the borders of the Northwestern States. I am especially happy that the power produced by this great new dam will contribute to the finest type of cooperative effort--your own Northwest Power Pool. This arrangement is an admirable modal of voluntary pooling of public and private generating and transmission facilities. Because of it, you citizens of the Northwest have hundreds of thousands of kilowatts of additional prime power that would not exist through independent operation of your various utilities. And in addition--and very important--you have it under your own control--not under the permission of a far-off Washington office holder. This is a splendid partnership--the kind that the Administration will continue to encourage.


I might add that this partnership concept has been most ably advanced by your Republican delegation in the Congress, led by Senator Cordon. to assure each citizen of enough kilowatts, when he wants them, where he wants them, at the lowest competitive cost--with the least likelihood of bureaucratic domination from Washington, D.C. In this effort, we shall avoid extremes. We shall neither withdraw from the power field nor will we federalize all electric power generators in the United States. Instead, we shall continue to advance in a spirit of helpfulness to localities, and in a spirit of cooperation with local citizens. Where local enterprise can shoulder the burden, it will be encouraged and supported in doing so. And where local action cannot or should not fully meet the need, we shall have Federal action. In this way, our people, in their communities and homes throughout America, shall reserve to themselves as many of the basic decisions affecting their lives as possible. In this way, our people will remain free to carve out their destinies as their predecessors did. It was in this spirit that those who preceded you in the great Northwest, in only a century and a half, turned an unsettled wilderness into an inland empire--an empire vastly enriched by this gigantic structure which today we so proudly name the McNary Dam. Now, my friends, I know that the policy I have outlined for you will satisfy neither group that exists at the extreme ends of this argument. It is not intended to please them. This program, as all other programs in which your Government engages, is designed to benefit the United States of America--160 million people. It is guided and formulated on the advice, the commonsense counsel of the vast majority of Americans. Extremes do not interest me, or the Administration, in the slightest. Fellow citizens, we have talked today especially of power and water and this great new dam. But it is well that we remind ourselves that these are but part of a commonly-held objective which transcends all partisan and sectional considerations. The objective is that this Republic shall in every way grow ever stronger and more secure--that it may remain at peace in a world freed of the threat of atomic war. We want our America to have an ever growing, vigorous economy. We want every citizen to prosper and advance--with freedoms which daily shine brighter in each community of our land.


For several reasons, I shall want to take some of the time available to us today, actually to read to you a statement. Now, Mr. Hagerty tells me that a mimeograph of it is being made and is going to be over here before the conference is ended. If that is true, I suggest there is no need for your making notes during the time I am dealing with this paper. The paper deals with an approach to the security problem, and there are three reasons that I should like to take it up today. First, I have sent down today to the Congress a reorganizational plan for the Defense Department. It is not radical in most ways, certainly, but it does attempt to point up that organization so as to secure a greater effectiveness, economy, speed in action, and more rapid production of materiel that has been appropriated for. the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Defense, and the Director of Mutual Security. They have all returned, or at least all have returned except Secretary Wilson; and we have been having conferences on this same global problem. And finally, I met this morning with some of the legislative leaders, and we had this problem up for a long and exhaustive discussion. So I want to give you really the approach that we are now making toward this problem. I would like to present to you in a general way, and with fairly broad strokes, what I consider the sensible framework within which the United States and its allies can present in hard military fact an ever more effective posture of defense. A true posture of defense is composed of three factors--spiritual, military, and economic. Today I shall talk only about the last two. We Americans have frequently called for unity of basic purpose among our allies. I feel quite strongly that the least we can do is to display a similar continuity and unity in American purpose. This policy of ours, therefore, will not be tied to any magic, critical year which then has to be stretched out because of economic or production problems, but will be based on the sounder theory that a very real danger not only exists this year, but may continue to exist for years to come; that our strength, which is already very real, must now be made stronger, not by inefficient and expensive starts and stops, but by steady continuous improvements. I have always firmly believed that there is a great logic in the conduct of military affairs.

The President's News Conference


If these two logical disciplines can be wedded, it is then possible to create a situation of maximum military strength within economic capacities. If, on the other hand, these two are allowed to proceed in disregard one for the other, you then create a situation either of doubtful military strength, or of such precarious economic strength that your military position is in constant jeopardy. It has been the purpose of this administration ever since it took office, finding itself confronted with a crazy quilt of promises, commitments, and contracts, to bring American military logic and American economic logic into joint strong harness. No more glaring illustration of the lack of balance between the military logic and the economic logic could possibly be found than the situation that existed when we took office. On the one hand, we found our allies deploring our unfulfilled defense promises. On the other hand, we found there was a total carryover of $81 billion in appropriated funds, largely committed, for which cash must be provided from revenues in future fiscal years, over and above the normal annual cost of government. It is just as if the late administration had gone to the store and ordered 81 billion dollars worth of goods, which we have got to pay for as they are delivered, in addition to paying the regular household running expenses. The fiscal situation represented by these two extremes absolutely has to be brought into some kind of realistic focus, and the only way to do it is to have a completely new, fresh look without any misleading labels. As you know, over the past years I have been involved in the European end of defense, and therefore I think I know all about paper divisions and cardboard wings. For the last 3 months, I have been heavily involved in the American end of defense, and day after day have had to struggle with the basic equation that links the military safety of this country and of the free world with the ability of the world to pay its bills and earn a living. This morning I told the legislative leaders that already we can see our way clear to ask the Congress to appropriate at least 8 billion less in new money for the fiscal year 1954 than had been asked for by the previous administration. This is a preliminary figure based on 3 months' hard work. The great bulk of it, of course, relates to security programs. More definite figures will become available as appropriation requests are presented to the Congress during the next few weeks. You will note that I have been talking about the new appropriations for fiscal 1954.

The President's News Conference


Actual cash savings for 1954 will be determined only as Congress acts on the appropriation requests. These savings will not reduce the effective military strength we will deliver to ourselves and our allies during fiscal 1954. They are already on the books and in contracts. Deliveries actually will be speeded up through the reduction of lead time, and concentration on producing those items which make the most military sense for the immediate future. Practically everyone concerned with the problem can with some justification be a special pleader. But I am sure that what the overwhelming majority of Americans want to believe is that their Government is working with diligence and intelligence to bring about as rapidly as possible a condition of true military strength. I also believe that the overwhelming majority of the people of the free world appreciate the fact that a healthy American economy and a functioning economy in their own home country are inseparable from true defense. Furthermore, I have a deep conviction that all these people possess a fundamental common sense Which permits them to grasp the difference between a quiet, steady, long-term improvement in their defense position and the tempests stirred up by public arguments over the artificial arithmetic which is so easy to produce in the defense field. The program we are presenting is a long-term program, calling for a steady and adequate flow of men and materials to present a position of genuine strength to any would-be aggressor. The basic elements of our strategic problem have not materially changed in recent years, and certainly not in recent days. The areas and peoples vital to our Nation's welfare are the same as they have been for a long time. What we are doing is to adopt a new policy for the solution of the problem. This change in policy is radical and cannot be effected overnight. There exists what is, in effect, a straitjacket, comprising prior authorizations, appropriations, and contracts. The essence of the change is this. We reject the idea that we must build up to a maximum attainable strength for some specific date theoretically fixed for a specified time in the future. Defense is not a matter of maximum strength for a single date. It is a matter of adequate protection to be projected as far into the future as the actions and apparent purposes of others may compel us. It is a policy that can, if necessary, be lived with over a period of years. Finally, I would like to remind you of what I have said many times before, and will probably say many times again.

The President's News Conference


Most of all, we must champion the American worker and the American small business. We will, if we fight fearlessly and faithfully in Congress for what President Trump started, the America First Agenda. Now, everywhere I go in Northwest Georgia, I am humbled and honored by the overwhelming support I receive from many of you here in this room. You would not know that, though, if you only read the New York Times and the Washington Post, which unfortunately is what a lot of people in DC read. So they might be a little surprised at our numbers tonight, but we are not. Now I want to tell you this, I am blessed and I am constantly overwhelmed by the thousands of letters, cards, voicemails, and emails we receive, not only from right here at home, but from every state in America. It is just my home state, and I love Georgia so much. My enemies on both the left and the right will never admit it out loud, but I have become one of the most effective members in Congress for the Republican Party, simply by one thing, you guys, demanding that our party fight for our values of our voters, not the interest of corporate donors or Washington insiders. Now, my critics like to produce headlines full of fake outrage, because I keep daring to say things the globalist elites do not want you to hear. They write lies about me and team up with Democrats to have me sidelined and censored because they know I am the voice of the people, and that scares them the most. I am honored to represent the values of Northwest Georgia. I honor you by leading with my Christian faith, and by focusing on traditional family values, I believe in putting American workers and American small businesses first. I received a record number of votes from Northwest Georgians on November 3rd in 2020. And I took that sign from you all seriously. I got to work, and even before being sworn in, by leading the congressional objection to Joe Biden's fraudulent electoral votes on the House floor, that was important. Now, since then, I have kept my campaign promises to all of you. I fight every day in every way I can to stop the Democrats communist agenda. One way I have done that is by calling for roll call votes, putting Congress on record. By demanding transparency and forcing Congress to vote on record, I have defeated radical bills like squad member, Cori Bush's bill to allow felons to vote in jail; that should never happen.

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But we stopped it. That is more than any top ranking Republican accomplished on any House committee. Not only that, I have filed America First legislation, I have offered legislation to preserve and protect our second amendment, I have offered bills to impeach Joe Biden four times, bills to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, bills to expel insurrectionist Maxine Waters, bills to eliminate the ATF, bills to ban vaccine mandates, and bills to secure our Southern border and finish President Trump's wall. I even released my own congressional oversight report on my visit to the Washington DC jail, which currently houses January 6th pretrial defendants, still to this day. My report revealed the horrific conditions they face. I called for an end to the abuse of pretrial defendants and for the termination of the person overseeing their care, Deputy Warden Kathleen Landerkin. I have hit a few roadblocks on the way, perhaps because the Washington elites realize that I would always put you the voters first. Just after I was sworn in Democrats recognized me as the biggest threat to their communist agenda in Congress and made me their number one target. We can remember all those news stories. Well, they kicked me off committees, not just Democrats, but unfortunately 11 Republicans, because they knew I was not going to go along with their America last establishment agenda. They kicked me off because they realize, you know what, I am just like you; I am a proud American and I am tired of the business as usual in the swamp. Now to tell you the truth, in the current 117th Congress committees are useless for Republicans. Republicans are in the minority and Nancy Pelosi rules Congress with an iron fist. GOP bills and amendments are rejected and hardly see the light of day. When Republicans take back the majority in 2022, it is going to be a different story. I will be back on committees, you can count on that. Our party will have the power to make those committees useful and hold Democrats in the deep state who have put our country through hell accountable. I ran for Congress in 2020 because I was sick and tired of Republicans doing absolutely nothing even when they are put in charge, holding hands with Democrats, got us here. Over 30 trillion in debt now; it is a shame. I am running for reelection because my work to put people over politicians is just beginning.


Failed leaders like Mitch McConnell and neocons like Dan Crenshaw, who by the way, I think is in Ukraine and probably visiting Davos with Klaus Schwab, are eager to work with Democrats to pass Joe Biden's America last agenda. They reject the priorities of grassroots conservatives, but so long as I am in Congress, you will always have a voice. You will always have a champion working for each and every single one of you. I have been in Washington DC on your behalf for almost a year-and-a-half, seems like maybe 10 or 20 years. So I have had the chance to learn a few things. And tonight I'd like to let you in on a little secret, the people you see on TV, in press conferences, or walking the halls of Congress, you know, the diabolical evil masterminds who always seen two steps ahead, the ones who have caused us all so much misery, they are actually idiots. Surprise, but you already knew that. The only reason they get away with the things they get away with is because Republicans have not stood up to them. When the elites wield the power of the state against patriots, they can be terrifying. I am shocked at the cruel and illegal treatment of many nonviolent January 6th protestors, while over 95% of Antifa and Black Lives Matter domestic terrorists had their charges dropped. That is a two-tier justice system, and that should not exist in our country. But our enemies in Washington are not as smart as they think they are, and they are not unbeatable. They are good at one thing, though, they watch who and what gets popular, and they decide whether to take it out and strangle it, or take it over and claim the credit. Whether it is Democrats following AOC off a cliff into communism, or Republicans rushing to embrace the populous wing of our own party, the elites scramble to copy what we say, and then pretend it was their idea all along. They do these things because they simply do not care about you. In fact, they look down on us and they hate us. They know that if enough of us said, Stop, their influence would disappear. And that is what they fear the most. Sending me back to Washington will send a message to the blood sucking establishment, it is we who will set the political agenda for the next decade and not them.


You see, it is the elites that do not have any true affinity for the country they govern. They prefer Davos to Dalton, Georgia. So we are going to start speaking the truth more loudly and fearlessly than ever before; we are going to work together, and we are going to take our country back. Now, the globalist are going to see that we are the majority in this country, and we have both the right and the power to determine our own destiny. That is what being an American's all about, right? We are the majority who want an end to trans-terrorism, socialist monetary policy, endless wars and nation building across the world, and the slow drain of our sovereignty into unaccountable foreign institutions run by sinister unelected fanatics. We are the majority who after Roe v. Wade is overturned, will protect the lives of the innocent children in the womb from the moment of conception. We are the majority who, when we put our minds to it, can wreck the Democrats plans for their terrifying Ministry of Truth, and send Nina Jenkowinz scuttling back to the karaoke bar where she belongs. We are the majority who even now still wants to see Hillary Clinton in jail. When conservatives work together to fight for Christian ideals, we can win. We have proven it. We can join hands to defy Democrat horrors, whether it is evil social engineering in our daughter's locker rooms, communism in the halls of Congress, or the DOJ harassing and intimidating parents at our school boards, the Republican Party has no choice but to fall in line, and they will, and they want to. I can already see changes happening in Washington; think tanks and political consultants and academics are starting to admit that the neocon project was a mistake, and that globalism has gone too far, and gone on too long. They are rebranding themselves populist and nationalist, and America First. I do not have faith in the character or integrity of a lot of these slimy people, but I do believe in their sense of self preservation; believe me, they know how to survive. So when we take back the House, I believe the Republican Party will come to its senses and once again begin to reflect the priorities of ordinary working American families who have for so long been ridiculed, ignored and taken for granted, we will never forget being called a basket full of deplorables, right?


Because I believe that we are on the verge of a great American revival, a revival so enormous and so profound that no one will be able to stand in its way. I believe that this revival of faith, family, and freedom, a revival of Christian morals and constitutional values is ours to welcome in if we want it. I am convinced that the establishment in Washington knows this too. They know that America's patience for tyranny, communism, child abuse, the murder of the unborn, corporations and teachers grooming our kids, and politically weaponized law enforcement agencies is that an end. The era of mandates, and lockdowns, and jabs, and censorship, and lies is ending because the American people will no longer tolerate their government declaring war on its own citizens and our own values. Every politician says that an upcoming election is the most important one ever, most of the time that is not true, they are just trying to get people out to vote. Hail and thunder are coming for the elites who despise us and who want us to eat the bugs, drink the poop water, and live in the pods, and own nothing, yet somehow be happy. I am sorry, do any of you want that future? Y'all do not want his fake Petri dish meat? In 2016, this nation came together to show the Hollywood elites and university professors and line news reporters that we hold the power of self-governance. We reminded them that they are not in charge, we are. We elected Donald J. Trump, and we will make an American revival possible just when it is seemed as though our nation might be lost to faceless bureaucrats, European commissions, the World Health Organization, and the World Economic Forum. Tonight I am calling on you to help me continue the America First movement, and commit to rebuilding a happier, healthier, more law-abiding, more caring, and more morally accountable America in which we respect God and his plans for us, and in which we protect the future of our children and our grandchildren. We are at the start of something here in 2022. Some people are describing it as a return of some 2016 energy here in Georgia's 14th district. You have power to affect change nationally in a way, many other Americans do not , you are sending me back to Washington to put our country and our people first to make America great. Again, you and me working together can succeed in a place that fails you every single day.


And we know that this is possible because we are already on that journey. I will continue to speak the truth and fight back against the uni-party in Washington, DC. Together, we will hold their feet to the fire, together we can inspire the rest of America to be just like Northwest Georgia, and elect people who will fight for you in Washington, DC. Now, in the 118th Congress with Republicans in power, we will launch real investigations with teeth to hold accountable and to jail bad actors in the deep state who work every day to strip away your freedoms. We will finish President Trump's border wall and secure our Southern border. And we will reign in big tech companies and stop those woke corporations from shutting down and silencing conservatives and destroying our freedom of speech. We will stop the evil influence of the Chinese Communist Party in our economy and our institutions. We will achieve American energy independence again. And we will investigate and fire Dr. Anthony Fauci; nobody voted for him in the first place. We will kick Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell off committees so they can no longer pervert our constitution. And yes, if we work hard and if we want it badly enough, we will impeach Joe Biden. As many of you know, I have a great relationship with President Trump. I am going to work with him to deliver the America First policies that America needs and America desperately wants. We miss him, do not we? I think the whole world misses President Trump right now. I pray that you will show the same faith in me this coming November that you have tonight, Georgia, and I thank you for that, the same faith that you did two years ago. Meanwhile, I look forward to a Republican majority in 2022. I also look confidently ahead at the presidential election in 2024. We can, and we will win that race too. And we have to, if we truly want to save America and stop communism, we are going to lead the way. May God bless every single one of you, every single one of you; and may God bless the great State of Georgia, and let us save America and stop communism.


This week we celebrated the creation of 4 million new jobs in America since I became President on a platform to renew the American dream by restoring our economy, empowering individual Americans to compete and win in it, making Government work for ordinary citizens, and rebuilding our communities. Since we started our national economic strategy, our private sector is creating jobs nearly 8 times faster than it was 4 years ago. It has not been easy to make these changes. We had to make some tough decisions to put our economic house in order. We had to break the bad habits that led to mismanagement of our economy and the explosion of our deficit for more than a decade. And we had to break through all of the partisan barriers and political rhetoric that too often keeps us from doing the right thing for the American people here in Washington, DC. Today I want to talk with you about two other historic decisions that call on us to break through partisan barriers and political rhetoric again. For very soon, Congress will vote on both health care reform and the crime bill, two issues crucial to our mission of renewing the American dream. I want to talk to you about two young Americans whose stories are the best arguments I have heard for why we have to fix what is wrong with our health care system and make our country safer again for all Americans. One of those young people is Amanda Stewart from Keyes, Oklahoma. This week, I gave awards to four young people who have done heroic deeds or performed remarkable public service. Amanda was one of them. She was injured in a car wreck in 1990 and paralyzed from the chest down. This wonderful young lady could have given up on life. Instead of becoming bitter or defeated, she is devoted herself to educating other young people not to drink and drive, not to ride with people who do, and to always use seat belts. She is helping others to avoid what happened to her. I met Amanda's family. Her father is a hardworking farmer in western Oklahoma. She has a lovely mother and a wonderful younger sister. She has not had any significant medical costs since just after her accident 4 years ago. The Stewarts have been paying $3,400 a year for a limited health insurance policy with a high deductible. But recently they were told that this month their insurance premiums were going to be raised to $9,600 a year. He is in a different party from me, and he made it clear to me that he does not want the National Government to give him anything.

The President's Radio Address


But he is got a family to raise, and he has no idea how he is going to keep paying for their health insurance. He said to me that if he could not take care of his family, as hard as he was working, something was wrong in this country. People like Amanda and her family are the reason we have to guarantee private, not Government, health insurance for every American, insurance that is always there. It is time to do what is right by those people. We are going in the wrong direction now. There are 5 million Americans just like Amanda's family who had insurance 5 years ago who do not have it today. Almost every one of them are working people and their children. It is also time we do what is right for young people like James Darby, the 9-year-old boy from New Orleans who wrote me last April. He asked me to do something about the crime rate. He asked me to stop the killing, because he was afraid that someone might kill him. And just 9 days later, walking home from a Mother's Day picnic, little James Darby was shot in the head and killed. Well, 9 days ago, after 6 years of delay, a bipartisan committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives reconciled their differences on the smartest, toughest crime bill in the history of this country and sent the bill back to be voted on for final passage in both Houses of Congress. It took a lot of work. It is a bipartisan effort and has been every step of the way. three strikes and you are out and tougher punishments for other tough criminals; 100,000 new police officers on our streets that is a 20 percent increase all across America; a ban on deadly assault weapons; a law that makes it illegal for minors to own and possess handguns; new prisons to keep hardened criminals in; and billions for new, effective prevention programs to give our young people something to say yes to, not just something to say no to. Nine days ago when the bill was sent to both Houses for final passage, I thought it would pass quickly and be sent to my desk for signing. You see, before the House of Representatives can vote on a bill, it must agree on the rules for debate about the bill. There are 435 Members of the House, and they have to have some rules to limit debate. In shorthand, this is called the rule.

The President's Radio Address


Second only to Georgia in the primary, does anybody here know which State gave me the biggest margin of victory when I ran for President? And I have come to thank you for that. Not too long ago, the Congress and I restored full citizenship to President Jefferson Davis. And since Camp David, the Congress and the people of the country have done the same to me, and I want to thank you for that, too. For any Democrat coming to Tennessee, and particularly coming to Nashville, is a homecoming, because Andrew Jackson, one of the greatest Presidents who ever lived, the father of our party, has made Tennessee a homecoming place for all Democrats. He was a man of great courage. He was a man who loved his home State. He was a man who founded the principles of our party, that said that those who hold public office have to put our faith, our confidence, our responsibility to the average, common, good American citizens who put us in office. That is the commitment of the Democratic Party today, and we are going to keep it that way. There has been a time in the last few years when Tennessee strayed temporarily from the Democratic Party and from the principles of Andrew Jackson. And in the last few years, we have seen a major shift back toward Democrats by Tennessee, and that is going to keep on the next 2 weeks. Georgia, my own State, has always been close to Tennessee. We share a lot with you. When it snows in the north Georgia mountains and the northwestern part of our State, our State legislators have to come through Tennessee to get home to Atlanta to act as legislators. We have always kept those borders open, except one time when General Sherman crossed them on the way from Tennessee through Atlanta. But with that one exception, we bind ourselves to you. We will keep those lines open. And I am proud to say that as Tennesseans, I consider you my brother, and I am glad to be here as that, too. James K. Polk, President of the United States; Cordell Hull, one of the greatest Secretaries of State our country has ever seen; Estes Kefauver, who ought to have been President of the United States. Kefauver was a man who went throughout the country, standing on street corners, standing in factory shift lines early in the morning, shaking hands with the American citizens and saying, What can I do for you if I am the nominee of the Democratic Party? I believe he entered 13 primaries.

Nashville, Tennessee Remarks at a State Democratic Party Rally.


He won 11 of them. He was not elected President, but he set a standard of campaigning that I followed very closely when in 1976 I entered 30 primaries and won a fairly good number of those which gave me an avenue to the White House. I want to recognize, too, a great United States Senator who served at the same time, Senator Albert Gore, who is been an inspiration to a lot of southerners. As you well know, when the South was going through those difficult days of changing from a segregated society to one where we gave all American citizens equal rights, regardless of color, Albert Gore, Estes Kefauver set a standard for the rest of us to follow. Their courage has made the southland a better place to live for blacks and whites. And I want to thank them for what they meant to me and to my own people. I will always remember the Democratic convention when Frank Clement made an inspiring address, and his son, Bob,2 has brought the same kind of approach to Democratic politics in this State. And he supported the Democratic nominees as a loyal Democrat should, in this same status with the same tradition as his father, Frank. I cannot come to Tennessee, especially Nashville, without mentioning Dick Fulton, a man who was in the Congress, who could have stayed there as long as he wanted to, who was doing a great job, but felt that he could do a better job and be closer to you if he came home as mayor of Nashville. And I hate to miss him in Washington, but I am glad you have got him. And I am very thankful that he is doing such a great job here as your mayor, and I want to make sure that everybody knows about that. Some people said he came to Nashville to be closer to country music. But that is not true any more, because you cannot get any closer to country music that originates in Nashville than you do in the White House when I turn my record player on or my radio on-that is the kind of music I really love. And we have had a lot of great music performers from your city come to entertain us and many others in the White House since I have been President. The night before last, my wife and I were on the telephone talking to June Carter and also to her husband, as you know, about the unfortunate loss of Maybelle Carter.


She set not only a standard in country music that is inspired Johnny Cash and many others as well as her own family, but she also set a standard of common, ordinary people who love one another, expressing their views, their hopes, their dreams, their fears to the world through music. And I want to thank you for her. As June knows, I always claim kinship with her, particularly after I started running for office. And that family means a lot to me and to the rest of the country. I just want to mention two other people. Al Bissell, a great mayor of Oakridge, has provided us with a standard of leadership at the municipal level, and I predict that his son, Keith, will do an equally good job as public service commissioner next year. Jay Solomon, a Tennessean, came to Washington at my request. He did not much want to come, but he is a great businessman from Chattanooga, and he took over as Administrator of the General Services Administration, the GSA. And he is done as much to let us know about waste and corruption in Government as anyone. He is fighting the battles for you to make the Federal Government be better, cleaner, more decent, more honest. He is the kind of fellow who issues the contracts now after he opens the bids. And I want to thank Tennessee for giving me Jay Solomon. I have really come here today to get you to work hard for the nominees for Governor, United States Senate, State offices, and the U.S. Congress, whom you have already chosen in an open, tough, difficult, closely contested Democratic primary. You have chosen a man to come to Washington with me 2 years ago, who is done an outstanding job already. And I want to express my deep thanks to you for sending Jim Sasser to Washington, who has already carved out for himself a position of leadership. One of the most important responsibilities of any Senator is to pass the appropriations bills, deciding where money goes for every possible service the National Government provides. Jim Sasser just happens to be on the Appropriations Committee. Another important job, of course, is preparing the budget to cut down on deficits and to make sure the Congress toes the line when they spend your money. It just happens that Jim Sasser is on the Senate Budget Committee. Another important job is to give government reorganization a chance to let us have a better government. We have passed now a very fine civil service reform law to put our good civil servants to work a little harder for you.


It just happens that Jim Sasser is chairman of the Civil Service Reform Committee, and I want to thank Tennessee for giving me this strong ally and friend and supporter in Washington. I have only got one complaint to make about Jim Sasser. When it comes down to deciding what I want him to do, compared to what Tennessee wants him to do, he always does what you want him to do. Now I want to comment on one man who is had maybe a more difficult youth than I had. When I was 14 years old, because of the TVA and because of the REA, we got electricity and running water in the house I lived in. Jake Butcher did not get it until he was 16 years old. He is a man who comes from humble beginnings. He is a man who exemplifies in my mind the true spirit of Tennessee. He has cast his lot with the people of this State. When I was Governor of Georgia, I spent about 25 percent of my time trying to bring industry into my State. I spent that time trying to revive the possibility of jobs for Georgians, to make sure we were a dynamic, growing State, to make sure the State government was run economically and efficiently as a business ought to be. And you have a true treasure coming up next year in Jake Butcher as your Governor. And I hope every one of you will help him. I have particularly admired his. He has not run a negative campaign. He is pointed out to you how Tennessee could be a better State with good leadership. And he has got a particularly soft spot in his heart for senior citizens. If he is elected Governor-and I am sure he will be-he is promised all those over 65 years old that you will not have to pay sales tax on food. That shows one of the things that he will do. And now I want to mention a woman who, next January, is going to make Jim Sasser senior Senator from Tennessee-Jane Eskind. In the Tennessee primary-and there is no other like it in the whole United States-you had nine candidates for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator. Nobody thought Jane Eskind had a chance. Jane Eskind thought she had a chance. She put her political future in your hands. And she came through on top. The reason is that she is tough, competent, she knows government. She will come with a clear eye and a clean-sweeping broom.


She is cast her lot with the little people, the common, ordinary, good working people of Tennessee. And she will bring to Washington the true spirit of Andrew Jackson. And I hope all of you will help her when November 7 comes. I will have to express my thanks as a peanut farmer to Ed Jones, the dean of the Tennessee congressional delegation and one of the leading members of the Congress in passing agricultural legislation for our country. Albert Gore, Jr., fits in well with Tennessee. He is on the committee responsible for science and technology. And Tennessee, with a dynamic economy and a clear vision of the future, is certainly benefiting from his incumbency, and I am sure he will go back into office. And you have got here in Nashville a man to fill some big shoes, your next Congressman, Bill Boner. We have got the most wonderful Democratic slate you have ever had, and I hope you will help me get all of them elected in 2 weeks, November 7, Tuesday after next. Will you do that for us? Now I'd like to say just a word about our Nation. You got that title and that reputation because you have always been willing and eager to defend our Nation when it was in trouble. And as your Governor pointed out, since I have been in office, we have not called on a single Tennessean nor a single American to lose a life or to shed blood in conflict in another country. And I want to keep that record as long as I am in the White House. Our Nation has taken the leadership in trying to preserve peace for our own people, in trying to bring peace to others. We are negotiating now to conclude a SALT treaty, to make sure that we lessen the threat of nuclear weapons for people in our own country and throughout the world. We are trying to negotiate, with some success already, peace in the Middle East, between Israel and Egypt. This is a difficult undertaking, and we need your help, your prayers, and your support. We are trying to strengthen our ties with our own allies, to let NATO be stronger. We have got a strong defense, ever improving. We are the strongest nation on Earth militarily, and as long as I am in the White House, we are going to stay number one in defense. Tennesseans believe in hard work. When I was elected President, we had 10 million Americans, 10 million Americans who could not get a full-time job.


We had 7 million Americans or more who could not get a job at all. But we put America back to work. We have had, since I have been in office, an increase of 6 million net new jobs for America, and we are going to keep on giving our people a chance to work for themselves and for our country. We are trying to provide better education, better housing, better highways, a good agricultural program. With your Congressmen's help, we passed a farm bill about a year ago that is already improved farm income 25 percent. We have got the highest level of agricultural exports in the history of our country last year. We are trying also to make sure that we have a good energy program, and for the first time in the history of our Nation, we now have a good, sound energy policy that is going to be better in the future with your help. 3 yesterday, I signed a bill to deregulate the airline industry. We are trying to get Government's nose out of the business of the people of this country, and we have made good progress already. We have had a decrease in airline fares, a tremendous increase in the number of people who can now afford to fly in airplanes, and the profits of the airline industry have gone up. And by 1985, we will have eliminated a major Federal regulatory agency, the CAB, the Civil Aeronautics Board, because we have proven that the American free enterprise system can work if competition is put in and the consumers are protected. That is the kind of government we are trying to give you. The Democratic Party has always been a party with a heart. We believe in people and giving our people a better chance to live. But we are also a party that knows how to manage government. When I was running for President in 1976 and you helped me so much, we had a Federal budget deficit of $66 billion. In 1 year, we cut it down to the fifties. We have now cut it down to the forties. By the end of next year, we will have cut it in half, and we are going to keep on working until we have a balanced budget for the Federal Government and responsible to you. At the same time, we have cut taxes. Better services, lower taxes, lower budget deficits, better management, zero-base budgeting-these are the kind of things that we believe are important. We are cutting out corruption.


It is a great pleasure to have so many present and future scientific pioneers in the Rose Garden with us today. Along with Members of Congress and the administration, we have no fewer than four Nobel laureates in the audience as well as many of the top science students from the Department of Energy's Science Honors Program. I am tempted to paraphrase an earlier President who once said there is never before been so much talent assembled in one place in the White House since-well, since I hosted the Washington Redskins on the South Lawn last month. But the reason we are here, of course, is to talk about the superconducting supercollider, as you have probably guessed already. I have to confess that when I first heard about this place where things go round and round at great speeds and then crash into each other I thought they were talking about a Presidential campaign. At first I was a little nervous addressing so many distinguished scientists on a subject of such complexity, but then I realized these are people who spend their days talking about things called quarks, which some claim exist in two places at the same time. The fact is, I envy the students here today because they exist in a world that seems to put no limits on the imagination. Outer space used to be called the final frontier, but today we have begun to tap another frontier-inner space-whose infinitesimal constellations hold out infinite possibilities. It may be a cliche, but it is nevertheless true that the pace of progress is constantly accelerating. I think one of the reasons I have always had so little patience with those who talk about the limits to growth is that in my lifetime I have seen those limits shattered again and again by questing minds. When I was very young, horsepower was still the kind you fed with hay. And before the turn of the century, we plan to have men living and working in stations in space and a new hypersonic plane that can fly from here to Tokyo in less than 3 hours. I know that some people may question the practical applications of the superconducting supercollider. The strange world of subatomic particles they may think will never be more than an arcane interest to a few highly specialized scientists. But the truth is, the practical applications of this knowledge are already changing the way we live. One of my favorite examples is from the computer industry.

Remarks to Science Honors Students on the Supercollider Program


If automotive technology had progressed as fast and as far as superconductor technology has in the last 20 years, he says, a Rolls Royce today would cost less than $3, get 3 million miles to the gallon, and six of them would fit on the head of a pin. Well, the technological revolution he is describing is transforming our world, and it was only made possible by the knowledge scientists have brought back from their explorations of inner space. Every time someone turns on his desk computer, makes a phone call, or plays a video game, he is plugging into that mysterious world of quantum physics. The superconducting supercollider is the doorway to that new world of quantum change, of quantum progress for science and for our economy. In the face of ever-increasing global competition, the United States must maintain the leading edge in science and technology, and building the world's largest particle accelerator is a visible symbol of our nation's determination to stay out front. Benjamin Franklin once said that an investment in knowledge pays the best interest. I want to commend you all on your cause, your vision, and the message of progress and competitiveness you carry with you today. And it is my hope that Congress will show equal vision by approving funding to initiate construction of the supercollider. I think all they'd need to do is meet with some of these students here today to see that it is our responsibility to the next generation to keep America a place where we can dream big dreams and then make them real. I have to interject something here before I conclude. In my lifetime-and only the recent part of my lifetime-after about 25 years in movies and so forth, I was representing the General Electric Theatre on television. And I visited one of their plants in Schenectady early on, and they proudly took me in and showed me what turns out to be the first computer. They called it an electric brain. It would have-well, it would have fit in the Rose Garden here, but it was about as long as from the edge of the platform to the bushes over there and almost as thick. And that is what-I just thought of that when I mentioned here someone sitting down to his desk computer-that, in just those years, from there up to here, is what has happened. So, maybe that fellow about the Rolls Royce was right-six of them on the head of a pin.


I love you back! A couple of acknowledgments that I want to make. First of all, Mike is a pretty humble guy, but this is the Iowa Firefighter of the Year. We are proud of him and every single firefighter that puts their lives at risk for us. We are grateful to them. You have got your own attorney general, Tom Miller, in the house; Congressman Bruce Braley is here; and Mayor Buck Clark is here. And all of you are here. Now, listen, if you have got a seat, feel free to sit down, because I have got some things to say. I have got some things to say. First of all, it is good to be back. Some of you may remember that one of my first stops after I announced for ENTITY was right here in Waterloo back, way back when, in 2007. I had no gray hair. I mean, maybe I had a little bit, but you could not see it. Now you can see it. But the reason that is important, it is worth reminding people, is because it was on your front porches, it was in your backyards, where our movement for change began. We spent a lot of time on bus tours like the one I am taking right now, although the bus was not as nice as it is now. And we went to school gyms and family farms and small businesses across the State. Yesterday I went to the State Fair, and I had a pork chop and a beer. Today I just had a beer. I did not get the pork chop. But-you say, you will fry me a pork chop, huh? Somebody just said-it is true, at the State Fair, instead of saying 4 more years, they were saying, four more beers. So I bought him four more beers. Told him he had to register to vote, though, to get one of the beers. It is-the reason I am back, other than I just love being in Iowa, the reason I am back is because that journey we started in 2008, we are not finished yet. So just like we did in 2007, we started over in Council Bluffs, and we are driving all the way to the Quads. And we want to make sure that everybody understands the choice that you face in November. And this choice could not be bigger, because it is not just a choice between two candidates; it is not just a choice between two parties.

Remarks at a Campaign Rally in Waterloo, Iowa


More than any recent election, more than 2008, this is a choice between two fundamentally different visions of where we need to go as a country. And the direction that you choose when you walk into that voting booth in November, that is going to have an impact not just on your lives, it will have an impact on your children and your grandchildren for decades to come. Now, remember why we came together in 2008. It was because we saw that the basic bargain that built this country, that created the most prosperous economy the world has ever known, that basic bargain was not being met. And let me tell you what that bargain is. It says that if you act responsibly and you put in enough effort, you can find a job that pays the bills. You can have a home that you call your own. You will not go broke just because somebody in your family gets sick. You can retire with dignity and respect. And most importantly, you can give your kids a great education so they can dream even bigger and do even better than you did. But the problem was for a decade we had seen that bargain was not being met. So we had seen a decade in which jobs were being shipped overseas and wages and incomes for working people were going down, even though folks at the very top were doing very well, and the costs of everything from health care to college were going up. We ran two wars on a credit card. We went from surplus to deficit. So when I walked into office we already had a $1 trillion deficit. And it all culminated in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That is the track record of the other party the last time they were in charge. And we knew that restoring the bargain that made this country great would not be easy. It was going to take more than one year or one term or even more than one ENTITY, but we knew we had to get started. And obviously, it became that much harder when the middle class was hammered by this crisis because a lot of folks lost jobs, lost homes, lost savings, and that American Dream seemed even further out of reach. But I told you there would not be any quick fixes, there would not be any easy solutions, but what I also promised you, and I absolutely believe this, is we have got everything we need to meet our challenges. Waterloo, we have still got the best workers in the world and the best entrepreneurs in the world. We have got the best scientists and the best researchers in the world.


We have got the best farmers in the world. We have got the best colleges and universities in the world. We are still a young nation, full of promise, and we have got the greatest diversity of talent and ingenuity from every corner of the globe. So no matter what the naysayers say, no matter how dark they try to paint things when they are running against me in an election, there is not another country on Earth that would not trade places with the United States of America. Because people around the world still believe that America is the place where, if you work hard, no matter who you are, no matter what you look like, no matter where you come from, you can still make it. That is what my Presidency is about. That is why I am running for a second term as ENTITY of the United States. Now, Waterloo, what stands-there is one thing standing in our way, though-is some strange politics in Washington. You have got a party that says compromise is a dirty word. Folks who want to go back to the same top-down economics that got us into this mess in the first place. You may have heard, my opponent chose as his running mate Congressman Ryan this weekend and-- No, no, no, listen, I know Congressman Ryan. He is the ideological leader of the Republicans in Congress. And he is an articulate spokesperson for Governor Romney's vision. See, my opponent, Governor Romney, and his friends in Congress, they believe-this is their whole platform, this is their basic plan, as much detail as you get, this is what you get. Their plan to grow the economy is to eliminate regulations, including on big banks and insurance companies, some of the regulations we put in place to make sure, for example, that we do not have another taxpayer-funded bailout. So he wants to get rid of regulations, and then what he wants to do is give more tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans. And the idea, then, is that jobs and prosperity will trickle down on everybody. That is the centerpiece of his plan. You can go on his website. His economic plan is a new $5 trillion tax cut, a lot of it going to the wealthiest Americans. Now, keep in mind, these are the same folks who say the deficit is our biggest problem, but they want to pass a new $5 trillion tax cut-$5 trillion, that is with a t.


So just to give you some perspective, our annual defense budget, everything we spend on national security, is just a little over $500 billion. So this would be, every year for 10 years, a tax cut as big as our defense spending. He says he is going to pay for it. Well, how are you going to pay for it? It turns out that he expects you to pay for it. He expects middle class families to pick up the tab. Governor Romney's plan, according to independent analysts, would actually raise taxes on middle class families with children by an average of $2,000. Now, keep in mind, this is not $2,000 to reduce the deficit or create jobs or build new schools or help kids go to college or send a man to the moon. This is $2,000 each that you'd have to pay to give another $250,000 tax cut to folks who are making $3 million a year or more. Now, I am not making this stuff up. You can look; look on their website. We have tried this before. We tried this trickle-down fairy dust before. It is not a plan to create jobs. It is not a plan to lower the deficit. It is not a plan to move our economy forward. It is not a plan to revive the middle class. We do not need more tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. We need to give tax relief to working families who are trying to raise their kids, keep them healthy, send them to college, keep a roof over their heads. That is the choice in this election. That is one of the reasons I am running for a second term as ENTITY. So, Waterloo, I have got a different idea. Four years ago, I came into office. I promised to cut taxes for middle class families. That is exactly what I have done, by a total of about $3,600 for the typical family. So if you talk to somebody who is still not convinced and undecided in the election, you tell them your taxes are lower-your Federal taxes are lower now than when I came into office. Now, what I want to do is I want to keep everybody's taxes right there where they are for the first $250,000 of everybody's income.


So if your family makes under $250,000-like 98 percent of families do and 97 percent of small businesses do-then you will not see your income taxes go up by a single dime next year. But if you are fortunate enough to be in the other 2 percent, like I am, you will still get a tax break on your first $250,000. But for the amount that you make over that, we are asking you to contribute a little bit more so we can pay down our deficit without gutting education, without getting rid of transportation projects, without gutting all the things that help make America grow. Now, Government-I will make sure Government still does its part to reduce our debt and our deficits. We have cut out already a trillion dollars' worth of spending we do not need. And we can do more. But we cannot bring down our deficit and our debt just by asking us to get rid of the things that help open up opportunity to Americans. So instead, we are asking folks like me to go back to the rates we paid under Bill Clinton, which, by the way, was a time when we created 23 million new jobs, went from deficit to surplus, and we created a whole lot of millionaires to boot. See, Waterloo, this comes down to your basic philosophy. But also, when you look at the evidence of our economic history, when teachers and nurses and firefighters and receptionists and construction workers-when you have got a little more money in your pocket, what do you do? You spend it because times are tight, right? So if you have got a little extra money, now maybe you finally trade in that 10-year-old car you have been driving. Maybe you buy a computer for your kid who is about to go to college. So suddenly, businesses have more customers, which means they are making more profits, which means they are hiring more workers, who then spend more money, and suddenly, the economy gets better for everybody, including folks at the top. I do not believe in top-down economics. I believe in middle-class-out economics. I believe in bottom-up economics. I believe in making sure everybody has got a fair shot. That is why I am running for a second term as president of the United States of America. That is not the only difference between me and Mr. Romney.


When the auto industry was on the brink of collapse-you remember that?-more than a million jobs at stake, Governor Romney said, let us let Detroit go bankrupt. I said, let us bet on American workers. And management and workers got together in a great, iconic American industry. I want to see high-tech advanced manufacturing come back all across America in other industries. I do not want those jobs in China or Germany. I want them here in Iowa. Governor Romney says, well, no, look, I understand the economy because I have been in the private sector. Well, a lot of that experience was investing in companies, including those that were called pioneers in the business of outsourcing. He wants to keep giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas. I want to end those tax breaks once and for all and start rewarding companies that are investing right here in the United States of America, hiring American workers, making American products. That is the choice in this election. Right now we are seeing homegrown energy, new sources of energy, creating jobs right here in Iowa. So what does Governor Romney want to do? He wants to end the tax credit for wind energy producers. He said these new sources of energy are imaginary. Congressman Ryan, his running mate, calls them a fad. During a speech a few months ago, Governor Romney even explained his energy policy. This is what he said. He said, You cannot drive a car with a windmill on it. That is what he said about wind power, you cannot drive a car with a windmill on it. I mean, maybe he is tried it; he is put other things on the roof. But if he really wants to learn something about wind energy, he should come to Iowa. Then he'd know that 7,000 Iowa jobs depend on the wind industry, more than any other State in America. He'd know that the parts for making these high-tech wind turbines, they are now made in Iowa. They are made in America. I have been to the places in Newton, Iowa, where some of this stuff is being made. I understand he may not have figured out how to drive a car with a windmill on it, but if he came to Iowa, he'd know that 20 percent of Iowa's electricity now comes from wind energy. America has doubled the amount of electricity we get from wind over the last 4 years, enough power for nearly 13 million homes-clean, renewable energy.


That is something you leave behind for the next generation. We should support it; I support it. And instead of giving $4 billion in taxpayer subsidies to oil companies that are making plenty of money every time you go to the pump, we should be investing in homegrown energy that is never been more promising. That is the choice in this election. That is why I am running for a second term. In 2008, I promised to end the war in Iraq; I ended it. Governor Romney said the way I ended it was tragic. I said I'd go after Al Qaida and bin Laden; I went after them. We are now beginning a transition out of Afghanistan. And so all of this is possible only because of the extraordinary service of our men and women in uniform. And that is why I have made sure to make historic investments in the VA. Because somebody who has fought for us should not have to fight for a job when they come home. But if we are serious about them coming home to a strong economy, then we have got to do some building here at home, some nation-building. Take half of the money that we have been spending over a decade of war, and let us start doing some rebuilding here in America. Let us put Americans back to work rebuilding roads and bridges and ports and airports, laying broadband lines in rural communities. Let us create a veterans jobs corps so returning heroes can get jobs as firefighters and cops in communities that need them. There is a lot of work to be done right here in America, and I am running to rebuild America. That is a choice in this election. And I am running to make sure America once again has the best education system in the world and the best training system for workers in the world. I want to help our schools hire and reward the best teachers, especially in math and science. I want to give 2 million more Americans the chance to go to community colleges to train for the jobs that businesses are hiring for right now. I want to get colleges and universities to bring down the cost of tuition so that every young person can get the kind of education that they need to succeed in the 21st century. I want to help homeowners refinance their homes, save 3,000 bucks at these historically low rates. That is a difference in this election. I believe that you should have some health care security. That is why I passed Obamacare. And I like Obamacare. I like the phrase Obamacare, because you know what?


I care about the-I care about all those folks with preexisting conditions who now are going to be able to get coverage. I care about folks who already have insurance, making sure insurance companies do not jerk them around right when they need that insurance the most. I care about the 6 1/2 million young people who are now able to stay on their parent's plan and do not have to go without insurance. I care about the seniors who now have more discounts on their prescriptions drugs, and we are closing the doughnut hole. So, Waterloo, we do not need another 2 years of arguing about health care. We are implementing this law. All these things-health care security, American manufacturing, rebuilding America, putting construction workers back to work, making sure our kids are getting a great education and can afford college-all these things that make up a middle class life, they all tie together. It goes back to that central idea of America, that here in this country everybody gets a fair shot, everybody does their fair share, everybody plays by the same set of rules. It is the same promise our parents and grandparents passed on to us, and now, our job is to pass it on to our kids. Now, over the next 3 months, the other side will spend more money than we have ever seen. Now, you notice their ads generally do not tell you what it is that they are going to do because they know their plans will not sell. You have not forgotten; you did not get amnesia. You did not forget the last time they tried what they are selling. So basically, the argument that they are going to make over and over again is just the same one, which is, the economy is still not where it needs to be and it is Obama's fault. We have still got too many folks out of work and too many homes under water. And we have not brought back all the jobs that need to be brought back. What they are offering, it is not a plan to create jobs. It is not a plan to reduce the deficit. They do not have a plan to grow the economy. They do not have a plan to revive the middle class. The plan I have put forward can do that. But I need your help. I need your help. I need your help. You can get a voter registration form online. But here is what I know.


I thank the Speaker for the invitation to come here to celebrate the shared history and heritage that unite Ireland and America. And I promise that my remarks today will be briefer than the last time I spoke on Capitol Hill. Some of you may be aware that I do not attend a lot of formal lunches like this. But I had a change of heart when I saw that the Speaker's menu included Tex-Mex food. I just could not pass up the chance to try a green burrito. On Saint Patrick's Day, we all get to be Irish for a day. There has been a lot of speculation about whether I am part Irish. Today I will speak plainly about an extremely important topic, peace in Northern Ireland. The United States will remain unwavering in our support of peace. We will remain unwavering in our support for all parties who show courage and leadership on behalf of peace. And we will remain unalterably opposed to anyone who would destroy peace by preaching or practicing violence. Much of the progress toward peace in the past several years has been aided by the engagement of the United States. As I told Prime Minister Blair-and as I will tell Prime Minister Ahern tomorrow-the United States stands ready to continue that engagement. Peace in Northern Ireland is in America's strong national interest. The peace that holds today has many authors, from President Clinton to leaders from Britain, Ireland, and Northern Ireland to American political leaders, such as Senator Mitchell. The Good Friday agreement remains the best hope for lasting peace for the people of Northern Ireland. The goal of the United States is to see that agreement fully implemented. First, this is what the people of Ireland and Northern Ireland voted for back on May 22, 1998. And they did so by a very large margin. Second, the Good Friday agreement embodies principles of fundamental fairness without which peace will never breathe. First, as stated in the agreement itself, it is for the people of the island of Ireland alone, by agreement between the two parts...to exercise their right to self-determination on the basis of consent. The second principle is that of territorial integrity, that borders should never be changed through violence. The progress the parties have made in putting these principles into practice has made a difference-a big difference. And no one knows this better than the people of Northern Ireland themselves. Violence is down from previous levels. More people are moving into Northern Ireland than are moving out.

Remarks Prepared for Delivery to a Friends of Ireland Luncheon


We are very glad to see you, and we want to pay you a very special warm welcome to the White House. I was glad to hear that 20 of the brightest young students from three countries were visiting the White House today. Your visit comes at a very critical time. Therefore, I am especially glad that you have a chance to have an experience here at this time. I want to take advantage of every opportunity I can to meet with young people, and to let them observe what this country stands for, and what it believes in, and what it is doing, and also hear from you on your views of the world that we are living in. To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. That really is what you are about to do. You are beginning a great voyage, a voyage to explore a new and an extremely exciting field of knowledge, man in inner and outer space. I do not think there is anything I need to tell you about how important this journey is. I think that you know today that almost nothing is more important in all this world than trained intelligence. There is one thing that matters more though, and there is one thing that is more important than all of man's knowledge and all of man's skill. At a time when nations are quarreling, when divisions of race and class and religion trouble 'people everywhere, when there is a general restlessness among the youth of all lands, when there is an insecure feeling among many, many peoples, when mighty armies can cross borders and people are not sure of what tomorrow holds for them-then your journey is an important one because the trip that you are beginning, in my judgment, offers great promise to increase and to enrich and to promote better understanding between men and between nations. For that I am very grateful--to you and to Dr. Messel and to the Science Foundation and Sydney University and to the wonderful people of Australia. That is a great and that is a friendly land and I treasure my associations with that country and with those people. I hope all of you have a good trip. I wish I could go with you. I know your experiences will be of great profit to you and, I believe, your country. It would be wonderful to be your age again on a mission like yours.

Remarks to the Lyndon B. Johnson Australian Science Scholars.


Let me ask you a question. Half are saying yes; half are saying no. Let me say to all of you, I will give you a brief version of what I said there. First, I want to thank Chicago and the State of Illinois for being so good to me. I thank Mayor Daley for his leadership and partnership and for making it possible to prove that our crime policies and our welfare policies and our economic policies would all work, because they worked here in Chicago. I thank Bobby Rush for helping me in '92. I thank Bobby and Dick Durbin and the entire crowd in your congressional delegation who have been so good to me. But Senator Durbin, I especially thank you for all the things you have done. I thank Bill Daley for being a superb Secretary of Commerce and a brilliant campaign manager. What I told them upstairs was, Bill Daley ran the first Presidential campaign in history that was so clearly winning, a court had to stop the vote in order to change the outcome. Now, I want to say two other things. Upstairs, I said that this hotel was very important in my life. I spoke to the Democratic chairs here in December of '91. I had my party here on Saint Patrick's Day in 1992 when we won the primary. Some of you were there. And I still have a picture in my little office off the Oval Office of Hillary and me standing here in this lobby with the confetti coming down on Saint Patrick's Day. I have had it there every single day for 8 years to remind me that Chicago and Illinois made me ENTITY. I thank you for voting for us overwhelmingly in '92, in '96. I thank you for a fabulous convention in 1996, which was a joy. And I thank you for sticking with us in the year 2000, which you did. I thank you for that. I thought it was really important to me to come here before I leave office to say thank you. And I also want to bring you greetings from the new Senator from the State of New York. Hillary said to tell you hello. And I told Senator Durbin that you should just sort of consider that Illinois also has two Democratic Senators again. I am honored to have been ENTITY at a time when a lot of changes were going on in America and in the world. And you had a lot to do with that.

Remarks to an Overflow Crowd in Chicago


Hillary and I are honored to be here today to join in praising, remembering, and cherishing the life of a man who was our friend and whose love for his family, his Nation, and his Navy were as deep as the oceans he sailed. Listening to Phil Lader talk about how Bud and Mouza first met brought back so many old memories to me and to those of us who had the privilege to listen to Bud Zumwalt tell that story. I became convinced that it was the reverse of the fish story, that every time he is told it, she said yes in a shorter and shorter amount of time. The last time I was in this magnificent chapel was to say goodbye to another great admiral of the 20th century, Arleigh Burke. When our historians look back on the century we have just left, they may well record that Arleigh Burke was the spirit of the United States Navy; they will certainly recall that Bud Zumwalt was its conscience. As much as any other leader in our entire history, Americans could always count on Bud Zumwalt to do the right thing. The midshipmen here learn a lot about honor, commitment, and courage. All his life, he exemplified those virtues. His bravery in World War II, in Korea, what he did in Vietnam, his physical courage and leadership led him to become the youngest Chief of Naval Operations in our history. But beyond his physical courage, Bud Zumwalt stood out for his moral courage and for saying what he thought was right, regardless of the consequences. He sailed through rough waters more than once. We heard Dick Schifter so eloquently chronicle his work in the 1970's to bring back the Navy's strength. When he issued his famous Z-grams, he knew that he was taking on more than 200 years of Navy tradition. But because he took the heat, thousands of naval leaders like former Secretary John Lehman have said they actually made the decision to stay in the Navy because Bud Zumwalt made the Navy exciting again. When we struggled through the racial tensions of the sixties and seventies, he worked in the face of wilting criticism and a highly resistant institutional culture to make the Navy do the right thing and make the Navy one of the most colorblind institutions in our entire Nation. I know it was a special point of pride for him that the very first African-American admiral earned his star on Bud Zumwalt's watch.

Remarks at Funeral Services for Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., in Annapolis, Maryland


At a time when morale and enthusiasm were at an all-time low, he had the vision to see a great future for the Navy. And even though he lived just to see 2 days of this new century, the changes he brought about three decades ago will continue to shape the character and culture of our Navy for a long time in the 21st century. Many people have commented on this today, but I want to give you a personal example. Of all the things he inspired, perhaps the greatest impact he had was on the ordinary men and women who served under him. We all know he originally intended to go to West Point, and then a whaling captain set his sails straight. The men and women of the Navy always knew that Bud Zumwalt had their backs, and that loyalty went both ways. This week we have seen an astonishing outpouring of love and affection from those who served with Admiral Zumwalt. Many of them are here today. This morning, when I was putting on my necktie and getting ready to go out for the day, my naval steward, who has been a Navy enlisted man for more than 30 years, said, ENTITY, today you are going to Admiral Zumwalt's service, are not you? He looked at me and smiled, and he said, He is the best we ever had. He was for us. He also never forgot to live by the consequences of his commitments. I know there was a family from South Vietnam that was sent after the end of the war to America as refugees, as so many were, and they were sent to my home State of Arkansas. To stay, they were told they had to know someone from our country. When Bud was contacted, to their surprise, the family was actually put on a plane, not to the admiral's home in Maryland but to his son's home in North Carolina, because the admiral already had other refugee families living in his house and he did not have any more room. When Bud Zumwalt made a commitment, he stuck with it. And when it did not work out exactly as planned, he honored the consequences and lived by them. Perhaps the most famous consequence of his leadership during the Vietnam era was the painful loss of his son, Elmo, from the use of Agent Orange, which clearly he ordered because he believed it would save the lives of our people in uniform. So he lived with the consequences of life's greatest loss.


It is great to be back in the State of New Jersey. Oh, I know it might surprise some to see a Republican Presidential candidate in New Jersey in late October. The reason why I am here, with your help, we will carry the State of New Jersey in November. We are now 15 days away from a critical election. Many important domestic issues are at stake. I have a positive, hopeful agenda for job creation, broader health coverage, and better public education. Yet all the progress we hope to make depends on the security of our Nation. America is in the middle of a global war on terror, a struggle unlike any we have ever known before. We face an enemy that is determined to kill the innocent and make our country into a battlefield. For the sake of our future and our freedom, we will fight this war with every asset of our national power, and we will prevail. Laura sends her best. So I asked her to marry me; she said, Fine, just so long as I never have to give a political speech. I said, Okay, you got a deal. Fortunately, she did not hold me to that deal. The American people-a lot of Americans have seen her give a speech, and when they do, they see a compassionate, strong, warm woman. I am proud to have been standing on the stage with Bernie Kerik. He knows something about security. He is lived security all his life, and I want to thank him for his dedication and his service to the people of this country. I want to thank Congressman Jim Saxton for being here today. I want to thank Congressman Scott Garrett for joining us today. I want to thank Congressman Chris Smith and Marie for joining us. The chairman of the Republican Party was born and raised in this county. He is doing a fabulous job. I want to thank all the State senators and statehouse members who are here. I want to thank the grassroots activists. I want to thank you for what you are going to do during the next 15 days. We are going to win the State of New Jersey and win a great victory in November. During the decade of the 1990s, our times often seemed peaceful on the surface. Yet, beneath that surface were currents of danger. Terrorists were training and planning in distant camps. In 1993, terrorists made their first attack on the World Trade Center. In 1998, terrorists bombed American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Remarks in Marlton, New Jersey


And then came the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in 2000, which cost the lives of 17 American sailors. In this period, America's response to terrorism was generally piecemeal and symbolic. The terrorists concluded this was a sign of weakness, and their plans became more ambitious, * and their attacks became more deadly. Most Americans still felt that terrorism was something distant and something that would not strike on a large scale in America. That is the time that my opponent wants to go back to a time when danger was real and growing, but we did not know it, a time when some thought terrorism was only a nuisance. But that very attitude is what blinded America to the war being waged against us. And by not seeing the war, our Government had no comprehensive strategy to fight it. September the 11th, 2001, changed all that. We realized that the apparent security of the 1990s was an illusion. The people of New Jersey were among the first to understand how the world changed. On September the 11th, from places like Hoboken and Jersey City, you could look across the Hudson River and see the Twin Towers burning. We will never forget that day, and we will never forget our duty to defend America. Out of the horror of that day, we also saw good emerge. America has seen a new generation of heroes, police, firefighters, members of the military. Americans have felt a new sense of community in neighborhoods and across our country. We have been reminded that all of us are a part of a great American story that is larger than our individual lives, and we have been reminded of our solemn responsibility to defend freedom. September the 11th also changed the way we should look at national security, but not everyone realizes it. The choice we face in this election, the first Presidential election since September the 11th, is how our Nation will defeat this threat. Will we stay on the offensive against those who want to attack us or will we take action only after we are attacked? Will we make decisions in the light of September the 11th or continue to live in the mirage of safety that was actually a time of gathering threats? And in this time of choosing, I want all Americans to know you can count on me to fight our enemies and defend our freedom. America needs clear moral purpose and leaders who will not waver, especially in the tough times. Unlike my opponent, I understand the struggle America faces, and I have a strategy to win.

Remarks in Marlton, New Jersey