| 00:00:00 | COMPROMISE WHEN IT COMES TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY, AND THAT IS TRUE WHEN IT COMES TO DEFENSE SPENDING, AND IT'S ALSO TRUE WHEN IT COMES TO BORDER SECURITY. |
| 00:00:12 | LET ME SAY THIS ABOUT BORDER SECURITY. |
| 00:00:14 | I HAVE LIVED AND BREATHED THIS ISSUE FOR OVER A DECADE AS A BORDER GOVERNOR. |
| 00:00:19 | I'VE SIGNED BUDGETS THAT CONTAIN A TOTAL OF $400 MILLION OF STATE SECURITY OPERATIONS ALONG THAT BORDER. |
| 00:00:30 | I'VE DEALT WITH THE CARNAGE OF DEALING WITH WEAPONS, DRUGS, AND PEOPLE. |
| 00:00:35 | AS A BORDER GOVERNMENT, I KNOW FIRSTHAND THE FAILURES OF OUR FEDERAL BORDER POLICIES, AND I KNOW THE ANSWERS TO THOSE FAILURES IS NOT TO GRANT AMNESTY TO THOSE WHO BROKE THE LAWS TO COME INTO THIS COUNTRY. |
| 00:00:58 | [APPLAUSE] I WAS PROUD TO SIGN LEGISLATION REQUIRING A PHOTO ID TO VOTE IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF OUR ELECTIONS. |
| 00:01:12 | [APPLAUSE] FOR THE OBVIOUS SECURITY REASONS, I VOTE -- THERE IS NO HOME LAND SECURITY WITHOUT BORDER SECURITY. |
| 00:01:23 | LET ME REPEAT THAT. |
| 00:01:25 | THERE IS NO SECURITY WITHOUT BORDER SECURITY. |
| 00:01:29 | MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT. |
| 00:01:31 | WHAT WE ARE SEEING SOUTH OF OUR BORDER IS NOTHING SHORT OF A WAR BEING WAGED BY THESE NARCO TERRORISTS. |
| 00:01:41 | THEY REPRESENT A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO OUR COUNTRY. |
| 00:01:45 | THEY ARE SPREADING VIOLENCE TO AMERICAN CITIES. |
| 00:01:48 | THEY ARE PEDDLING POISENS TO OUR CHILDREN. |
| 00:01:52 | IN THE FACE OF THIS THREAT, WE SHOULDN'T TAKE ANY OPTIONS OFF THE TABLE INCLUDING SECURITY OPERATIONS IN COOPERATION WITH THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT AS WE DID WITH COLOMBIA SOME YEARS AGO. |
| 00:02:06 | YOU CAN'T HAVE LIBERTY, YOU CAN'T HAVE OPPORTUNITY, YOU CANTED HAVE PROSPERITY WITHOUT SECURITY. |
| 00:02:17 | THE ISSUE BEFORE OUR LEADERS OF BOTH PARTIES IS SECURING A BETTER FUTURE FOR ALL AMERICANS. |
| 00:02:28 | YOU SEE, ECONOMIC SECURITY IS THE TOPIC OF DISCUSSION AT MILLIONS OF DINNER TABLES CRUET THIS GREAT COUNTRY OF OURS. |
| 00:02:37 | IN THE PAST TWO MONTHS, I'VE HAD THE GREAT PRIVILEGE TO TRAVEL ACROSS THIS COUNTRY, AND I'VE LISTENED TO THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS, AND THEY ARE NOT UNDER ANY ILLUSIONS ABOUT THE CURRENT STATE OF OUR COUNTRY. |
| 00:02:53 | THEY'VE NEVER MISTAKEN HOPE FOR A HANDOUT BECAUSE THEY WANT TO EARN THEIR KEEP. |
| 00:03:00 | THEY ARE NOT LOOKING FOR SOARING SPEECHES. |
| 00:03:04 | THEY ARE LOOKING FOR COMMON SENSE SOLUTIONS, AND THEY KNOW OUR FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS TO GETTING AMERICA WORKING AGAIN IS SENDING OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR. |
| 00:03:19 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:03:30 | [APPLAUSE] LIKE ALL OF YOU IN HERE, I STILL BELIEVE IN THE EXCEPTIONALISM OF AMERICA. |
| 00:03:36 | TO PARAPHRASE LINCOLN AND RONALD REAGAN, AMERICA REMAINS THE LAST BEST HOPE OF MAN KIND. |
| 00:03:45 | WE MUST NEVER FORGET THAT THE EXCEPTIONALISM OF AMERICA CAN BE TRACED RIGHT INTO OUR FOUNDING PRINCIPLES. |
| 00:03:53 | THE FACT THAT THE FRAMERS OF OUR CONSTITUTION WERE THE FIRST IN THE HISTORY TO DECLARE THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, THE HAND OF PROVIDENCE HAS GUIDED AMERICA THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY FROM THOSE FIRST COLUMNISTS TO ARRIVE IN THE NEW WORLD TO THE COURAGE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON DURING THOSE DARKEST HOURS OF VALLEY FORGE TO THE DEFEAT OF TYRANNY DURING TWO WORLD WARS AND THE COLD WAR. |
| 00:04:36 | TIME AND TIME AGAIN AMERICA HAS BEEN THE SOURCE OF LIGHT IN A WORLD THAT'S BEEN BESET BY DARKNESS. |
| 00:04:47 | LIKE A LIGHTHOUSE PURR MUCHED ON THE -- PERCHED ON THE SHORE, WE PROVIDE A LIGHT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN IN A SEA OF ECONOMIC MISERY. |
| 00:04:59 | WE CAN STILL BE THE COUNTRY WE ASPIRE TO, A SOURCE OF LIGHT AND HOPE TO ALL WHO LIVE HERE AND THOSE WHO COME HERE ANCHORED BY OUR IDEALS, WE CAN REBUILD ON THE SOLID FOUNDATION OF TRUTH INSTEAD OF THE SHIFTING SANDS OF MORAL RELATIVISM. |
| 00:05:20 | WE CAN RESTORE HOPE AT HOME WHILE PROJECTING OUR VALUES ABROAD. |
| 00:05:27 | WE CAN BE THE FREEST, MOST PROSPEROUS PEOPLE TO EVER OCCUPY THE PLANET IF WE REMAIN ONE NATION UNDER GOD. |
| 00:05:38 | GOD BLESS YOU, AND THANK YOU ALL FOR ALLOWING ME TO COME AND PARTICIPATE TODAY. |
| 00:05:44 | BLESS YOU. |
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