SCOTT WALKER SPEECH AT 2015 IOWA FAITH AND FREEDOM SUMMIT
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good evening
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good evening
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freedom
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endowed by our Creator
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defined by our Constitution
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and defended each and every day
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by the men and women who proudly wear the uniform these United States
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tonight as we talk about freedom
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and face we should begin by thanking God for the freedoms that were endowed
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on us in this country we should remember the founders who helped
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identify those in that document the the Constitution
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which we focus on and we should begin
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in particular tonight by thanking any better weather here
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who are in the service to our country be they an active duty
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the Guard and Reserve or those who have served our country the passes veterans
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with any of you here tonight
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who fit that category please stand so we can recognize you
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and as you go home tonight
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before you go to bed when you say your prayers I'd ask that you not only
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thank in your prayers the good Lord for the men and women adjusted up
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but remember that even as we speak here tonight
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there are men and women in harm's way and there will be into the foreseeable
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future
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whether they come for the active duty the Guard Reserve anywhere around the
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country so don't forget them
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as we talk about freedom we need to remember the people who have stood and
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continue to stand to protect those freedoms each and every day
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on June 5th 2012 is Kate that shit we won
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the one in all the recall election ever
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for gubernatorial race in this entire culture
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many have you here helped us out we appreciate
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a lot of folks who went across the Mississippi and knocked on doors
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in our state there a lot of folks who said even here I'll get on the phone and
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make phone calls to get out the grass roots in your state
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there are many view that senate checks for twenty five or thirty or forty
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dollars
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we appreciate every better that but most importantly are so many view here in
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others for across this great country
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who said it on it now I were prayed for you
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eyes when it a how much that meant to us particularly
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I did not just the recall that we had a hundred thousand protesters in Iran are
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capital
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we had death threats against myself and my family and others out there
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I gotta tell you what's the status at all for people all on the way
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would tell us we're prayin for you we're praying for tonight we're praying for
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your boys were praying for you all the acres
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thank you for that doing i'd ask returns don't stop brand we still need your
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prayers
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we appreciate it very much couple days after that recall election I wanna tell
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you
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interesting story to a couple days after the recall election I got an email from
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a long time friend by
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so I'd email he said
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I took a picture this devotional
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and and I was going to send it to you on the day of the election if you lost
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because it's really a powerful devotional
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its powerful for someone who's into a time for mourning a time of crisis
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time a loss and he said I did but I waited a couple days and I are is that I
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don't know what movie but I decided to send it to you anyway
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and so as I read his email I opened up the attachment and I read it really
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would've been powerful
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and I lost the election as I looked at it more closely I i realize the typeface
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was familiar to me
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and I and I went overnight I get outta
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a copy over devotional that to I read each day called Jesus calling
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and I looked at it along the whole
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it was from that devotional it was resting today it was
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it was for Monday June 4th
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you can imagine the day before election I got up early I was doing interviews I
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was getting ready for the Bison
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somehow that day I neglected to read the devotional
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and I thought well that's interesting but that would have really been powerful
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header lost the election
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let I didn't Lord but the II I realize now it's very interesting to see the
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I miss and I didn't think anything more other a couple days more wet by
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then in my fish office I got it email their
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from a woman who lived in northern Wisconsin who
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want to tell me about her brother Pat her brother Pat had been at a
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a breakfast on the form I did on the sunday
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before that recall election was Scott's we love to do
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dairy breakfast at allbut the reforms different counties around the state that
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particular Sunday
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that brokaw north-central Wisconsin and
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this e-mail told me about how this woman's brother
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and his family had been at that breakfast and he was a big fan
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he heard I was over there flipping pancakes
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conservative up for folks in so his family came up and they were
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what are the very people who got in line to take a picture in this e-mail went on
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to say about how excited he was not just for that picture because you told his
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his family had a 13-year-old son and his wife and the two
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two children a little bit older in their twenties and how he said how important
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it was
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that they get out there to sit about how important was the good work we've done
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almost
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State Wisconsin and that that recall not be successful
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and then I read the email over further
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it said the next morning that pat got up
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to milk cows early in the morning was a thirteen-year-old
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and at the age of 52 he dropped over dead of a heart attack
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and then this e-mail went on to tell me about how pat's wife
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and her two adult children even though it was the day after the passing
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over husband and their father still went out to vote on that Tuesday cuz a new
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how passionately pat was interested in that election
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and as the sister out that that man Pat she wanted me to know that and ask
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fights in the notes to her sister law the teller I did knowledge
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hearing this story at said group not greeting but sympathies on
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be effort to date night you can imagine I didn't do that
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I got my staff to find the telephone number so I could call over to the form
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and talk to pass wife
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I got on the phone called over there the
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one other daughters who is in her twenties answer the phone they went out
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to the bar where she was still trying to figure out how to run all the equipment
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a few days after husband passed away
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how she was gonna now call those cows she came in to take the call
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and I talked about how r sister-in-law has sent me this email and told me this
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story
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sure for what was said in the email and as we were talking
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suddenly hit me hit me as we were talking about
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what you're going through that her husband had died
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on Monday June 4th
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and it dawned on me
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devotional wasn't for me and so I walked over
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and I got out
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Jesus calling and I look to June 4th
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June 4th it said welcome challenging times as opportunities to trust me
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you have me decide you in my spirit within you
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so no set of circumstances is too much for you to handle
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when the past before you is dotted with difficulties
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beware measuring your strengths
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against those challenges that calculation is certain the real you with
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anxiety
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without me you won't make it past the first hurdle
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the way to walk through demanding days
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is to grip my hand tightly and stay in close communication with me
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what your thoughts unspoken words be richly flavored with trust
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and thank for this
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regardless if there's problems II
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can keep you in perfect peace as you stay close to me
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may be realized at that moment that the best way to minister
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is to accept God's calling at the time when you least expect it for to net now
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I was back in
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2009 when we we're looking at our state at the time we looked at all the
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troubles that we're facing the state wisconsin backed and
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we realize his parents for Matt for Alex are two sons it was completely
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unacceptable to think that they would grow up in a state that wasn't
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as great as a state that we had grown up and even though we know the election
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would be tough because
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in our state Republican had one for president since
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1984 back when I was in high school and I still had a full head of hair
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and we knew it would be tough but we we got in that race
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we won that election in early on four years ago at this time in 2011 we had to
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make some pretty tough decisions
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decisions run of a lot of protesters in from around the country
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but I get to tell you what's the status was not only the prayers I mentioned
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before but the fact that we felt
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in making that decision we did just talk about think about we prayed about
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we thought it was a call for us to get that election we knew on the way didn't
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matter about the title or the position we felt we were
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called to do the right thing and so we worried more about the next
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generation that we did about the next election and I know that's true for me
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too here not just for those are interested in politics but wife
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it's about accepting that calling no matter what it might be when you start a
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business with you in the clergy with your teacher with your former really
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well said
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it's about accepting that calling and I'm glad we did with what we did in
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wisconsin because today
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some four years later our state is better because if this
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not just economically we took a state that was had an unemployment rate of 9.2
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percent we turned it around the one that just last month was down to 4.6 percent
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whichever
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we took a state that was 3.6 billion dollars in the hole
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and each of the last four years we've created a balanced budget and over the
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next two years we are with the surplus of nearly half a billion dollars
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our pension fund is the only one in the country fully funded
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our debt and pension ratios was the lowest out there are rainy day funds a
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hundred sixty five times bigger than we took office
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but it wasn't just about finances and the economy
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I'm proud to say that because of our reforms today there is no seniority your
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tenure in our state that means we can hire
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and fire based on merit we can pay based on performance
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we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms and we compared to the be
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there
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and we did just
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provide opportunities that were improved in our traditional public schools
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which create a school choice statewide which created the amount of
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opportunities and charter schools and virtual schools at home school
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environments
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because we want to make sure that every child every son and daughter are stay
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had the opportunity to have the best education possible
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and have their family be the ones who made the right choice going for
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it wasn't just in those urs either
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some you may know this others may not in our first budget we defunded Planned
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Parenthood in the state was gas
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we've HR dollars for women's health went into
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the public health systems in the counties in other places where was less
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controversial
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we pass major pro-life legislation in the state wisconsin as well
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atop a that we pass Castle Doctrine
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concealed carry so that every law-abiding citizen our state has the
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right to protect themselves
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their family their loved ones and their property
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and we pass concealed care a giant concealed carry
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we passed on top of that now we all those things we actually passed photo ID
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so than our state it's easy to vote but hard to Chi I tell you this all just
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for for a couple reasons one well not so much to brag but as the tell you that if
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it can happen
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in a blue state like wisconsin it can happen anywhere across the american more
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importantly with the right leadership
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it can happen in our nation's capital we've got a we've got a new United
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States Senate with the republican majority we've got a house a represents
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a republic Geordie
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if we said a republican conservative reform-minded Republican into the White
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House in 2016
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there's no doubt just as we've done in state after state across america
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we could make America a great again with your help
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and let me give you three quick examples the contrast going forward as the night
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is growing login
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and I wanna get you on your way as well as he get back home in
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get up early go of the church years we're going to do tomorrow while it does
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we're home is
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first off we need to talk more about growth in this country
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you're the president Hillary Clinton spent a lot of time talking about how
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the grow
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economy but they get mixed up they think you grow the economy in washington
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I think we grow the economy in cities and towns villages all across this great
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country that one of the best ways to grow the economy
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is to get the government out of the way the american people in america employers
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that means
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now a lower taxes but but fixing the marriage penalty so we can support in a
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brace marriage in
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improve families in this country by make it a competitive tax burden for
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employers and job creators to bring more jobs back from overseas
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to book or our fellow Americans back to work to rate in the regulatory
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environment so that
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well zepa are others out there we allow people informers and business owners and
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others to create jobs and wealth and opportunity in this country if he's
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getting rid of Obamacare and putting patients back in charge of their health
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care
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it means either we talk about the economy it means
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actually having a rational policy when it comes to
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legal immigration this country that starts with securing the border
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enforcing e-verify upon every employer in this country so we uphold the law
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not having amnesty save you want to be a citizen you gotta go back to your
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country of origin and then get back in line like everybody else
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and when it comes to legal
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and when it comes to legal immigration
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the economy should write things in the number one priority in that process
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going forward
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should be american workers an american wages
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when times are tough the last thing we want to do is flood the market to put
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more workers in at a time when workers are unemployed in wages are low
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we need to make sure we put american workers first in everything we do from
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immigration the tax policy to regulatory reform in on down the line
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secondly we need to talk
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about not only growth but reform reform when I mean simply put is about
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transferring power
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at a Washington like we did in our state taking the power out the big other
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special interest
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put it back in the hands of the people I would take it from washington to put it
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back into the states
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for the special interests into the hands of the people that sure whether its
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medicaid or transportation education or others
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take the money and the responsibilities and send it back to the states
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and the local governments in the school districts and most importantly put it
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into the hands of the american people get
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that's not only true on funding
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upstage our national agencies federal agencies that strong things like
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marriage
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marriage is a decision that should be defined by our state governments not at
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the federal level and it was gone said in other places across the country
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mayors is defined between one man and one woman in state should be the one to
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make that decision
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and we talk about that we should be standing up for religious freedoms I'm
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proud to say in my state is actually in the state's constitution
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in the last time I checked it's in our nation's constitution as well
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it's about religion it's what our founders thought about in the ten
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amendments the 10 First Amendment and the Bill of Rights
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we'd up all the Constitution United States and protect their
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ability to practice religion regardless if it was your Christian
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or Jewish or anywhere else we should be picking winners and losers
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we should saying thats exactly why we found his country because our
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founders were tired at the oppression coming from other places around the
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world
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in america we should be the shining star that says you should be able you
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practice your religion
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and the government should defend you in doing it every single time and finally
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in addition to
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growth and reform the last thing I want to spend just a few minutes talking
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about
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is safety it's a safety what does that mean that sounds like
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fire police protection no safety is what some people call national security
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I got safety because when I see the images
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a jordanian pilot burned alive in a cage
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when I see Christians from Egypt's
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and other places around the world be headed or up late not only be added shot
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an execution-style when I see these images out there I worry about the
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safety not just to those individuals
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you think about I start to worry about safety of ourselves
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and our children and her coworkers and our neighbors because it's not just in
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the middle east
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we see attacks in france and Belgium
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Canada it's not a matter this is an attempt was made in America so again it
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is where
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right now I get so frustrated with this president because we've got a president
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who draw a line in the sand and allow people across
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we've got a president called I sis the JV squad
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who calls Yemen a success story who calls Iran
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a place we can do business with think about that for a minute
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think about that for a min I grew up from third grade on indelible Scott's
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dodi may not know this my father was a preacher he actually
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started out first church was in Colorado Springs Road was born
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in nineteen seventy we moved to Plainfield
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Iowa in northeastern Iowa where we live from 1970 to 1977 fact chuck Grassley
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heard from before it's kinda funny
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we first moved there 1970 use our state representative how about that
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but I think about their then eventually growing up and %uh over Wisconsin
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I remember in the late seventies I'm sure but if you do as well
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tying yellow ribbon
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around the tree in front of our house why because for 444 days
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Iran held americans hostage people like my friend Kevin her Manning
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a marine from Wausau Wisconsin they have not changed much since then
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a few of the leaders have changed but their approach is just the same
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we did a stand up and tell the press United States to back away from a bad
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deal
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because it's not in the interest the american people now more than ever
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now more than ever I believe that americans want a commander in chief
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will stand up and tell it like it is will tell the American people that the
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biggest threat we face in the world today
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is radical Islamic terrorism and we will do something about it
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we need a leader in america today that will recognize that Israel
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is actually an ally and start treating them as such
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and we need a leader in this country
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who have the courage to look the american people the I
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and tell that this may not happen in a day
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or a week were a month or even a year but as I mentioned before it is not if
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an attempt is made in America so it is when
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an attempt is made on behalf of my children and yours
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I'd rather take the fight to damn its it said awaiting to the fight comes to us
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we later was gonna work to protect the American Way of life in our children our
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grandchildren
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and yet generations yet to be born and so I would just
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and where where we started I would just stay with this quick note about freedom
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is a years ago I'd and this is why I'm optimistic about the future this great
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country as much as we face
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unbelievable challenges here in the world today I'm still an optimist
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because I believe in the American spirit and I know the history of this great
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country as a kid growing up in da love and I loved his trap that I loved it so
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much I
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I thought over founders is bigger than life superheroes
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and yet as a kid we never had a chance to go to philadelphia insulator life
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internet I got a chance
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to go over to Philadelphia for conference we got up early in the
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morning
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went out to see the Liberty Bell as the Sun was coming up
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we walked into independents all I was ready be blown away
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ready be blown away member I thought these people like bigger-than-life
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unbelievable and I walked in I saw the desk
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I saw the cheers they're not much like the ones we sit in today
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it dawned on me
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is ordinary people
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ordered people who did something quite extraordinary
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is for people who didn't just risked their lives
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should be the digits Rhys their political careers
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just rest their business ventures
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these were people who risked their lives their lives
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for the freedoms we hold dear today is a gentleman here tonight I would just
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remind you
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that what makes America rates
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what makes us exceptional what makes us the greatest country
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in the history of the world it's been all
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throughout our nation's history in times of crisis
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get economic or fiscal the military or spiritual
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what makes America amazing been all throughout our nation's history there
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had been
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men and women up courage
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who've been willing to think more about the future of their children
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and their grandchildren than they thought about their own futures
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ladies and gentlemen this is one of those moments
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in American history this is one of those times
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we can look back Adele future generations
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we were there we accepted the call
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we did what was necessary
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to make America great again
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ladies and gentlemen with your help and support and prayers
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we could do just that god bless you for coming out thank you for being here
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tonight
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44 thank you
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