Do anything. I think you believe that in your heart, but you have been frustrated the last seven years. You want to believe in america and know that our best days are ahead of us. You want to know we live in an Exceptional Company built on judeochristian values. You want to know we live in the greatest country in the history of the world. I know we can get that idea of america back. More years of this, we will not recognize this country. We do not have a moment to waste , an ounce of energy to waste. I am asking you to join our cause. Im going to give everything i have got to save the idea of america. With your help and gods grace, it is not too late to rescue the idea of america. Join our cause. It is time to believe again. Lets take our country back. You fors, and thank fighting for the idea of america. [applause] Governor Jindal thank you very much. Republican president ial candidate Carly Fiorina made a Campaign Stop recently in South Carolina. She talked to the greenville republican womens club and took questions from the audience. This is just under an hour. Thank you very much. It is wonderful to be with you. And thank you for the warm introduction and the warm escort. I am so honored to be sitting between betty and vivian. [applause] ms. Fiorina whereas you like to say, miss betty and miss vivian. I am happy to be known as miss carly. I think youll all eat lunch while i speak. Do not be afraid to eat while i talk. I will hopefully talk for not too long and take as many questions as you have. Yesterday, or maybe the day before, donald trump announced he was no longer going to be appearing on fox news. [applause] ms. Fiorina and i guess it turns out, apparently, he was particularly upset by something that a commentator said on fox news. Now, it is true that not everything reported in the media is really accurate. Shocking. But in this particular case, i read a story that says mr. Trump was not going to appear on fox news anymore because a commentator said i had managed, and i believe im quoting, to with precision during the debates. [laughter] [applause] , if i quit you know talking to all the people who attacked me, i would have crawled under a rock a long time ago. It is part of what it takes to be in the arena. You have to take criticism. You have to be able to stand up to a fight. ,n fact, since the last debate i have been engaged in a couple fight. One of them is with the liberal parenthood,anned who continue to say i am lying about what is going on in planned parenthood clinics. It is interesting. I was at a Pregnancy Center earlier today, a wonderful center where women who are facing a difficult choice get to learn something about all their options. They are encouraged to have the courage to bring their children into the world. I was never able to have children of my own, so i know in a special way how precious a gift life is. Here we are with planned parenthood saying i am wrong about the videos. No one is denying that babies are being butchered in order to sell their body parts. I bring this up because part of running for president , part of leading, is to be able to survive criticism and an onslaught of attack. Said, met eddie post, she you must have ice water in your veins. No, i do not. I just know how important this is. I know how important this is. I want to talk about what i think is at stake. I think the possibility of this nation is at stake. The future of this nation is at stake. The defense of this nation is at stake. And i think the character of this nation is at stake. You can applaud. [applause] it is all right. Let me start with the character of this nation. Matter whether you are prochoice or prolife. I am prolife. I know many women do not agree with me, but it does not matter if you are prochoice or prolife. Americans do not butcher babies to sell their body parts. [applause] ms. Fiorina and how disappointing, after working hard to return a historic republican majority to the house. I worked hard on that. A bunch of you worked hard on. After returning a republican majority to the senate, how disappointing that here we are of september, and the unborn Child Protection act has not been passed. [applause] ms. Fiorina this is not just good policy. It is good politics. The majority of women, the majority of young people, the majority of americans agree that abortion for any reason at all after five months is wrong. Why dont we passed the bill . We havent. That is about the character of our nation. Here is another thing that is about the character of our nation. Remember 18 months ago, when the scandal of wait times at the arizona v. A. Burst into the public eye . We learned of veterans were dying waiting for appointments. And the pressure was so intense on the Political Class, on politicians in washington, that they got together and managed to pass in three short weeks a bipartisan bill, which the president signed without a peep, that says you can fire 400 Senior Executives at the v. A. If things do not get better at the v. A. About a month ago, we learned that over 300,000 veterans had died in the last year waiting for care. Out ofnot hear a peep washington. One person has been fired from the v. A. When we do not care for those who have served us, this, too, is about the character of our nation. [applause] when we no longer can speak the truth about the evils around the world and the evils here at home, when we call accept terrorism workplace violence, when we do not stand up and acknowledge that christians are being persecuted, crucify, and driven from their homeland around the world, this is about the character of our nation. [applause] election is this also about the defense of our nation. The defense here at home and the defense of our nation around our world. I said many times that the world is a dangerous and tragic place when the United States of america is not leading. Terrorism is on the rise, not on the wane, as the president would like us to believe. Our hearts are broken when we see pictures of the syrian refugee crisis. There are probably 43 million people, according to the u. N. , on the move every year, being driven from their homes by violence. The world is a tragic place. Human trafficking is on the rise. Sexual slavery is an epidemic around the world. We have an in these enemies rate, sexualt use slavery, as a weapon to subdue populations, not to mention beheadings and all the rest. The world is a tragic place when we are not leading. Here at home, when we have officers, police officers, assassinated merely because they wear the uniform and try to keep our communities safe, and our president is silent, that is about defense of this nation as well. [applause] ms. Fiorina the world is a very dangerous and tragic place when we are not leading. So i will make clear to the world on day one in the oval office that the United States of america will lead once again. We will stand with our allies and confront our adversaries. [applause] ms. Fiorina and i will do that by making two phone calls. One to my good friend, bb netanyahu, to reassure him that we will stand with israel always. [applause] ms. Fiorina the second phone call will be made to the Supreme Leader of iran. He might not take my phone call. I am not his cup of tea, but he will get my message. And the message is this new deal. I do not care what deal you sign with the president of the United States. The deal is this. Militaryu open every and Nuclear Facility to anytime, anywhere inspections by our people, not yours, we will make it as difficult for you as possible to get money. The iranians are using the money. [applause] the iranians are using the money to build their military capabilities, their nuclear capabilities, to fund conflictxies who sow threat the middle east. We know from the Supreme Leader himself he has no intention at all of following the deal. Phone calls are critically important and send a message to every ally and adversary we have that the United States of america is back in the leadership business. [applause] you know how important our military capability is. South carolina is home to so many men and women in uniform. So many veterans as well. Must,ow as i do that we the next president of the United States, like ronald reagan, must rebuild the military capability of this nation. [applause] means wena and that need about 50 army brigades. 36 marine battalions. Somewhere between 300 and 350 naval battleships. And we need to reinvest in all three legs of the nuclear triad. We need to care for our veterans, and we also need to reform the pentagon and the bureaucracy that sits in washington dc. [applause] this election is about the character of our nation. This election is about the defense of our nation abroad and here at home. Finally, we have to secure the border. A nation that cannot secure its border cannot protect its sovereignty. How long have we been talking about immigration . With all due respect to mr. Trump, he did not bring this up. 2012,ked about it in 2008, 2004. Sanctuary city San Francisco has been a sanctuary city since 1989. We have been talking about an insecure border for 25 years. We must secure the border. It is not rocket science. It takes money, manpower, technology, and political willpower and leadership to actually get it done. [applause] we worked hard for the republican majority. I have encouraged the leadership of house and senate why dont you pass a Border Security bill . Ask president obama why he will veto it. Pass a Border Security bill. But no. The character of this nation is about the defense of our security and the possibilities in this country. When i was a little girl, my mother on a sunday morning said to me what you are is gods gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift to god. Those words landed in my life because i did not feel gifted. As a young girl or as a young woman. And lived andd worked all over the world. I have done business, charity, policy work. I have learned over and over again that everyone has godgiven gifts. Filled withs possibilities and potential. And so it is worth thinking about. Things haveat more been more impossible for more people in more places here in this nation than anywhere else on earth . Why has this nation have more possibility . I think it is because our founders knew what my mother taught me and what i have learned. Our founders knew that everyone has godgiven gifts. Everyone has potential. Everyone has possibilities. They found it a nation founded a nation on a visionary idea. Here, you have the right they described it as a right to use your godgiven gifts to fulfill your potential. That is what they meant when they said the right to liberty life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They said that right comes from god. And it cannot be taken away by man or government. Ladies and gentlemen, i am running for the presidency of the United States because i believe we have come to a Pivotal Point in our history when the possibilities of too Many Americans, the potential of this great nation, is being crushed by a government that has grown so big, so powerful, so costly, so complicated, so inept , and a professional class that refuses to do anything about it. [applause] and i am not alone in this belief. If you think i said something that you have been thinking for a long time, consider this 75 of our fellow citizens, 75 of our fellow citizens now believe the federal government is corrupt. [applause] gallup has been tracking this for decades. It is the highest level they have seen. 82 of citizens believe we have a professional Political Class that cares more about the protection of its own power and privilege than getting anything done. [applause] ms. Fiorina so what does that mean . That means that democrats, republicans, independents, young, old, people of every ethnicity, the vast majority of inricans, are losing faith their government and in their political process. Perhaps that is why so few americans vote now. I have talked to a lot of women out there who stopped voting. When i asked them why, it is not that they do not care. They think they do not count. That it will not make any difference. Ours was intended to be a citizen government of, by, and for the people. When citizens lose faith in their government and in their political process, that, ladies and gentlemen, is a pivotal time in a nations history. [applause] why do such and huge numbers of americans feel this way . Because it is obvious. Pick a festering problem you hoped would be resolved by now. Take your problem, pick your cause that you have worked hard for. Is it Border Security . Tax reform . The Veterans Administration . Reform of Social Security . You pick an issue that we talk about election after election and what happens . Nothing. Politics,d talk in but we never get it done. This reminds me of the difference between managers and leaders. Do you know what managers are . Managers are people who do the best they can within an existing system. They do not challenge the status quo. They accept the status quo. They operate within the status quo. When you operate within the status quo and do not challenge the system, guess what . All you can do is dance around the edges of problems. All these special interests in washington dc, when you have big powerful, complicated, corrupt government, what happens . You have tons of people working really hard to make sure the status quo never gets challenged because people benefit from the status quo. Quo always has huge power because people benefit from it. It is always hard to challenge the status quo. And yet, that is what leaders do. Leaders challenge the status quo. In order to solve problems and produce results. Something of of great hero of mine once said. Margaret thatcher once addressed , at aople, her citizens Pivotal Point in her nations history. She said i am not content to manage the decline of a great nation. [applause] ms. Fiorina well you know what, ladies and gentlemen . We have been managing the decline of this great nation quite long enough, thank you very much. I am not content. [applause] ms. Fiorina i am not content either, but i am prepared with your votes, your support, your leadrs, i am prepared to the resurgence of a great nation. [applause] ms. Fiorina this election is about our character. Our defense and our security. Possibilitiesr and our future. It is about leadership and citizenship. A leader challenges the status quo. But there is Something Else very important about leadership. I learned it long ago when i was a young woman and i did not understand the lesson i was being taught at the time. It took me a lifetime to understand it. When i graduated from college with a degree in medieval history and philosophy, i went to law school, hated it, and went back to work as a secretary to put myself through college, typing and filing. For all of us secretaries and previous secretaries, yay. I was hired by a nineperson Real Estate Firm to type and file and answer their phone. Came up to my desk and said, we have been watching you and think you can do more than type and file. That was my introduction to business. But it was my introduction to leadership as well. Men saw possibilities in me, saw potential in me. Because they did, suddenly, i saw new potential in myself. I used to think leadership was about whoever had the big office , whoever had the title, the parking space. But i know that leadership is not about your title. It is not about the size of your office, the size of your airplane or helicopter. It is certainly not about the size of your ego. Leadership is about service. [applause] and, in fact, the highest calling of leadership is to unlock potential in others. It is the core of leadership in every setting. Believe, someone who can win the job and someone who can do this job. To win this job is going to require a fearless fighter, someone who is not going to rock andhide under a quit talking when he gets a little mean and people call you names. Ladies, i will not falter. [applause] is a fight and this about many things. It is a fight about our possibilities, our future, our character, our security. It is a fight to remind the American People why we are republicans, why we are republicans and why our values and principles work better. Oneral months ago, i went the show the view. I think it is important to talk to people that do not know they agree with us. We are on the show, having a good time. Said to me, iosts really like you. Why are you a republican . You know the way people can ask that question sometimes. That is a really important question. We need to be able to answer that to the American People. Here is what i said no one of us is any better than anyone of us. Everyone of us has godgiven gifts. They one of us has opportunity to live a life of dignity and meaning, and i know our policies work better to live everyone up, regardless of their circumstances. That is the argument we must have. [applause] we also need someone, and i will close with this, we need someone who can do this job. Because the job needs doing now. We cannot tinker around the edges of our problems. We finally have to start getting some important things done. Need a president in the oval office that understands how the economy works, who understands [applause] ms. Fiorina that the job creation engine of the nation has been and will always be, the Small Business, the communitybased business, and we are crushing them. We crush too many opportunities for too many people. [applause] ms. Fiorina our president must understand the world and who is in it and how it works. And having been all over the world for decades, doing many things, knowing as many World Leaders as i do, i know it is vitally important that our country stand with our allies and confront our adversaries. I know only this nation can lead in this world because only we are an exceptional nation with the character to say we will never conquer territory. We will only liberate people. [applause] president needs to understand bureaucracy. Because it is only if you understand bureaucracy what it takes to cut it down to size and hold it accountable. Our government has become a vast, bloated, inept bureaucracy. We must cut it down to size and hold it accountable. [applause] ms. Fiorina she must understand technology. Technology is a great tool. It is also a weapon being used against us. No, mrs. Clinton, you cannot wipe a server with a towel, which is maybe why the fbi is pouring over 30,000 emails about her yoga classes. [applause] ms. Fiorina most importantly of all, we need a president in the oval office who understands what leadership is. Leaderhest calling of a is to unlock potential in others. I amow i believe positioned to be a president of the United States that will work with the citizens of this great and blessed nation to unlock the potential of every citizen. Thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] thank you so much. I think we are going to hear a couple rules for answering questions. Shes very open to answering questions, but we also have a lot of media today. They are not going to be able to pick up your question. If you do not have a microphone in front of you. Weve got two people on this side and on this site. Theyre going to be handing mids to the person with a question. Be sure that like is that your mouth the mic is at your mouth so they can pick up your question. So theres some back there. Here, yes sir. How about you go ahead . Since youre brave enough to show up at a lunch room full of ladies, we will give you gentlemens privilege. Thank you. Its a pleasure. Select the around to members of your cabinet and your security staff, what is the personal the principal attributes youre going to be looking for . Ms. Fiorina the principal attribute im going to be looking for his leadership. What does that mean, really . Positionople in every who understand their job is to challenge the status quo and produce real results. [applause] words, the job isnt a reward. Perch. Isnt a the job isnt an opportunity to go along to get along. The job is to lead, to solve problems, to produce results, and challenge the status quo. Every single one of these departments have lots of status quo that needs to be challenged. People have to have the courage to know that theyre going to make some enemies. Second thing that is very important is, i need people with the courage to challenge me. All leaders do best when they are surrounded with people who are smart enough, experienced enough, brave enough to say, you know what, i dont think youre really thinking that through. I think we need to have a good debate about this. I dont need a bunch of yes people. I need people who will stand up and challenge anyone, including me, when necessary for the good of the nation. [applause] you talk a lot about the thetical class, and adequacys of getting something done. Can you talk about your plans for the income tax debacle that we go through every april 15 . In fact, i couldnt do it april 15. I just filed it yesterday. Ms. Fiorina there you go. Yes. How long have we been talking about tax reform . For how many years, have we heard at the beginning of almost each congressional session, theres a bipartisan appetite for tax reform. Yet what we have today is a 73,000 page tax code. You dont think about this. Americans understand this in their bones. If something is so complicated that you cant understand it, you are getting taken advantage of. Thats just the way it is. [applause] a 73,000 page tax code advantages home . Ill tell you who it advantages. When you have something so complicated, so big, who is advantage . The big company. I used to lead one. The big company that can hire those of accountants, lawyers, and lobbyists, the wealthy, the powerful, the wellconnected. They have the resources to hire all the people to tell them what this means, or perhaps even more likely, to take advantage of all that complexity and all those loopholes. We have to go from 73,000 pages to about three. Why three . Because three is about the limit of what somebody can understand. The rule needs to be, youve got to be able to understand it. Think about what happens when we take all that complexity out. First, the way you level the Playing Field between the wealthy, powerful, the wellconnected and the big, and the small and the powerless, is simplicity. If its the same for everybody, you dont have an advantage because youre big and powerful. But what else happens when we go from 73,000 i the way, how do you get there, lower every rate, close every loophole. It has to be really simple. What else happens . You dont need a lot of people at the irs, do you . [applause] let me say one other thing. Theres some really nice words appear and they are all true. Yes, im a conservative. Yes, im an outsider. I try every day to be a leader. Theres one word missing here that applies to every single one of you as well. That word is citizen. Ars was intended to be citizen government. In order to go from a 73,000 page tax code to three, i must as president of the United States rally the citizens of the United States. Citizens have to be prepared to help me put pressure on the Political Class to actually move, so that instead of talking about tax reform, we are really doing it. Let me tell you how im going to do that. How many of you still own a flip phone . [laughter] ms. Fiorina ok, you must upgrade. You have 18 months to do so. Let me tell you why you must upgrade. Because technology is a tool that im going to use to harness, to channel not just the frustration and anger of the American People, but even better, the common sense and good judgment of the American People. Once a week, im going to ask my fellow citizens, please take out your smartphones. Id like to ask you a series of questions. Do you think its a good idea that we got from 73,000 page tax go down to three so you can understand it. Press one for yes, two four no. [applause] this is technology that exists, ladies and gentlemen. How Many Americans would vote . I think a whole heck of a lot. I think a lot of americans would vote for the question, do you think someone should be held accountable when 300,000 veterans die without health care . [applause] ms. Fiorina do you think its important that we know where every single dollar of your money is being spent . That means we have to go to some sort of zerobased budgeting. [applause] ours was intended to be a citizen government. Citizens, we must take our government back. [applause] ms. Fiorina thank you. Everyone appreciates you spending time and youre a phenomenal speaker. My name is tony clark. Im a local advocate here to fight against a strong battle we have a here, not locally only, but throughout the United States. 6 million children are being abused in the United States. What can we do to start changing the stats . First, im sure that you know all about this subject. One of the things that i have ask people career is who know how to solve a problem how to solve the problem. So you have a lot of expertise. Others do as well. Need to stop the scorch of the scourge of human trafficking. We are actually, and its all related to sexual slavery, abuse, it a big circle. We need to invest in treating drug addiction. I lost a daughter to drug addiction. This is an epidemic. Drugs are ravaging families. They are ravaging communities. We have to lead a fight against drug addiction, Mental Illness, and human trafficking. We are really not doing any of that. [applause] ms. Fiorina we have to do it globally, by the way. Human trafficking, sexual slavery, drug trade, its all global now. , when i talkedat about the character of our nation, i think its so important. Tone is set at the top. It is really important that we talk about the impact that a family can make, that an impact family can have. We need to talk about the value of each life. People thatemind every life that is wasted, however it is wasted, makes our nation a former place. Poorer place for all of us. And i would just say one other thing. Reform. Criminal justice what we are doing today as a nation, by the way, we have the highest incarceration rate in the world. And yet two thirds of the people in our jails are not there for violent crimes. They are not there for human trafficking. They are there for some kind of drugrelated or Mental Illness related problem. They are nonviolent offenders. We are not helping ourselves and we are not helping them. We ought to be putting in prison the real bad guys like the human traffickers and treating and caring for those who are armed by the score just scourges of addiction, Mental Illness, or sexual slavery. Question from up here in the balcony. Hi. Were up here. My wife and i enjoyed immensely voting for you when we lived in california. Looking forward to that opportunity here in South Carolina now. It seems like the minority is really the government in the u. S. Senate these days. Do you have any ideas on the filibuster rule and what we ought to do about that . Ms. Fiorina i agree with you. A lot of us work really hard to return a problem can to return a republican majority to the senate, and it seems like not a lot of things are happening here. I made three very specific suggestions. If leaders cant produce results, they need to set aside. [applause] ms. Fiorina there are three things that i think and ill come to your filibuster question in a moment there are three things i think the leadership ought to be doing now. Pass the unborn Child Protection act. Pass it. Pass the reins act. The reins act gives heres a thought the reins act gives congress the authority to oversee a regulation so that it just doesnt get rolled out by a bunch of nameless, faceless bureaucrats. Do you know how many rules we itsd by rules now not the rule of law anymore. It the rule of rules. The hhs the fcc, all of and obamacare, all of these regulators elected by no one, accountable to no one, past on a purely partisan basis, are choking our economy. The reins act would say, congress, you are in charge. I said already that Congress Needs to pass a Border Security bill. To your point, the democrats used the nuclear option, change the filibuster rule in order to get through their judicial nominees, and yet republicans, when faced with the most consequential deal, the deal years,an, in the last 60 let it go by. If ever there was a time to play the game the democrats have played with us, it was to stop this deal. [applause] ms. Fiorina i am all for playing by the rules, as long as the other side does. ,ut i am also all for saying lets keep things in perspective here. Sometimes, the right thing has to be done. And sometimes, the rules have got to be changed to get the right thing done. Yes, thank you for coming to South Carolina. Appreciate you being here. My question, i dont think ive ever heard you talk about gun rights and what you believe is the purpose of the Second Amendment. And what will you do if you become president to protect those rights . Ms. Fiorina the Second Amendment protects an individuals right to bear arms. Period. [applause] and from tyranny of government. Ms. Fiorina thats right. In each and every one of the cases where a tragedy occurred, including here in South Carolina, democrats immediately rushed to the microphone to politicize a tragedy and talk about the need for gun control. And yet, of course, what they do not tell you is in virtually every case, the things they propose what have made no difference at all. [applause] carolinana south actually as you know better than i do has relatively stringent guncontrol laws. More stringent than a lot of other states. It turned out in the tragedy in charleston that actually what happened is, somebody didnt quite do their job. Someone who shouldnt have gotten a firearm got one. Nevertheless, democrats said, we need to act new laws. Heres what i say. Enforce thectually laws we have, which we do not do. That is why you see in state after state after state, with some of the most stringent guncontrol laws in the nation, also having the highest gun crime rates in the nation. Chicago would be an example. The second thing i say is, we must invest more in the treatment of Mental Illness. In every single one of these cases, what you have at the core is someone who is deeply troubled. And in many cases, you have situations where people around them knew something was wrong. And yet, nobody said anything. Or they couldnt say anything because of hippo rules. Its very hard. I know this from personal experience watching our daughter go through her addiction. Very hard when someone is above the age of 18. If they are trouble, the loss so protect their privacy, it is hard for people to get to them and help them. , we have. We dont need any new guncontrol laws. An individual has the right to bear arms in this nation. Democrats ought to quit politicizing every one of these tragedies. We need to care for those people who need our help. [applause] ms. Fiorina i have time for one more. A lady waving right there. Yes, you are the last question. No pressure. My question is, if you are elected president ms. Fiorina not if. What is your plan to help grow Small Businesses . Ms. Fiorina its a fantastically important question. Just to review, it is Small Business that is the job creation engine of this nation. I started out in that nineperson Real Estate Firm. My husband, frank of over 30 years, started out driving a tow truck in a familyowned autobody shop. It is how most people start. Small, new, familyowned, communitybased businesses and create two thirds of the new jobs in this country. We have come to a place where we are destroying more businesses than we are creating. Think about that statistic. For the first time in u. S. History, we are destroying more businesses than we are creating. Why . Because, as government gets bigger and more powerful and more complicated and more complex, what happens . The small cant survive. You have to go through licensing requirements, the 73,000 page tax code, a regulatory thicket. Small businesses cant handle it. I have met more Small Business owners who say, i just cant do it anymore, i just want somebody to buy me out, and how many people have the courage to start one now . Not enough. Unless we level this Playing Field that i keep talking about, unless we reduce dramatically the complexity and the power of government to rule through regulation, to tax through an incredibly implicated tax code, through Government Agencies that have gotten bigger and bigger for 50 years, and all those bureaucrats are doing something, and all those things theyre doing are impacting people in real ways. Let me give you a real example of what i mean by this. Dodd frank. Remember the financial crisis . Who started the financial crisis . Fannie mae and freddie mac. By the way, this is how socialism starts. Government creates a problem and then government solves the problem. This is what happened in the financial industry. Government created a problem. Annie mae and freddie mac then wall street got in the game. The crash happened because everybody suspended common sense and good judgment and said, real estate prices can go up forever. What goes up must come down. Right . Hit,the financial crisis there were 25 regulatory agencies in washington, d. C. That were supposed to be minding the store. None of them were, apparently. We havent reformed fannie mae and freddie mac. We havent reformed a single one of those 25 agencies. We created dodd frank and a vast new government bureaucracy called the Consumer Financial protection bureau. By statute, congress has no oversight. Think about that. So they are out there, this vast bureaucracy, going through credit reports, looking for fraud. They checked over 700 million credit reports. Of all of us. Whats the consequence of it . Its of vital importance to Small Business. 10 wall street banks have become five. Even bigger, even more powerful. Helped writehey the bill. And hundreds if not thousands of Community Banks have gone out of business because they cant handle the weight of government. And Community Banks are where Small Businesses go to get their loans. And Community Banks are where a family goes to get it started. And Community Banks are folding. , is ityou ask anybody easier or harder to get a Small Business loan today, much harder. Is it easier or harder for a credit worthy person to get a mortgage today . Much harder. In other words, government created this problem and government is now solving the problem, and the consequences, less capital flowing to people who will build businesses and create jobs. Gentlemen,ladies and this election is so critical. Things can get to a tipping point. Unless you fix it, then you dont have a chance. We must take our government back. And so, i believe this is a pivotal time. I believe in many ways this is a perilous time. I also believe this is a time where we must be both courageous and optimistic. Why . Because every problem we have can be solved. Every wound we have is selfinflicted. We have everything we need to solve every problem and heal everyone. What we need now is leadership and citizenship. I hope very much that i can count on your support, on your help. Running for president is the biggest team effort there is. I need your votes. I need your support. I need your help. I need you to talk to everybody you know. Do not be discouraged or disquieted or despair about the future of this nation. Indeed, we have everything we have and we also know what we must be. And we know what we must be because lady liberty and lady justice tell us what we must be. Think for a moment about those two powerful symbols of our nation democracy. Think about lady liberty. She stands tall and strong. She doesnt shield her eyes from the realities or the evils of the world. She is clear eyed and resolute about the world, but she also faces into the world, which is the way we always must, and she holds her torch very high because she knows shes a beacon of hope in a deeply troubled world. Lady justice holds a sword because shes a fighter. Shes a warrior for the values and principles that have made this nation great. She holds a scale. She reminds us all of us are equal in the eyes of god. So all of us must be equal in both eyes of the law and government. Powerful and powerless alike. And she wears a blindfold. With that blindfold, i think she says to us that it must be true, it can be true, that in this nation, in this century, it doesnt matter who you are, it doesnt matter what you look like, it does not matter how you start, it does not matter your circumstances, here in this nation, every americans life must be filled with the possibilities that come from their godgiven gift. One nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. God bless you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] we have more road to the white house coverage tomorrow with donald trump. He holds a News Conference in new york city, where hes expected to outline his tax policy. We have live coverage starting at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan 2. Long, cspangn takes you on the road to the white house. Unfiltered access to the candidates at town hall meetings, News Conferences, rallies, and speeches. We are taking your comments on twitter, facebook, and by phone. Every Campaign Event we cover is available on our website, www. Cspan. Org. Monday on the communicators, we will talk with the Internet Corporation for assigned names and numbers ceo for about how the internet is government. Governments today have an advisory role. They do not likely make policy. They cannot have a seat on our board of directors. This is very much, in fact, a triumph of showing how a private sectorled institution that has the government as an important advisory body, but that has a broader base of decisionmaking that is private sectorled, including input from the Technical Community and civil society. Informs thee that policy, and the board activities are anchored in the fact that governments are continuing to play an advisory role to what we do. Monday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on the communicators on cspan 2. Congress returns this week to work out a path forward on a temporary spending measure that would fund the government be on wednesday and avoid a government shutdown. But house takes up a bill tuesday that would give states more flexibility in denying medicaid contracts to providers involved in abortions. You can watch the house live here on cspan. The senate gets to work tomorrow on its version of the temporary spending bill, known as a continuing resolution. A vote to advance that cr is scheduled for 5 30. The senate is always on our companion network, cspan 2. Cspan,g up next on q a with tom sherwood. Thats followed by president obama hosting a white house dinner for chinese president xi jinping as part of his visit to the u. S. Later, portions from the value voter summit in washington, d. C. That featured several republican president ial announcer this week on q a, political reporter tom sherwood. Mr. Sherwood, who covers politics for washington, did you talks about corruption in washington, d. C. , maryland, in virginia. Brian tom sherwood, after 40 years of covering washington, d. C. , when you look at, what is the biggest scandal . Tom do not think there is any doubt that