Your support. Are we out of time . That, thank you all very much. Have a wonderful day. God bless. Mr. Paul thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I would like to introduce my wife, kelly, and my son, robert, who are here. [applause] i get to go to a lot of political barbecues. Too many barbecues. Im stretching out my suit, i believe. The guy in front of me has got two plates of food and i am like, you are not going to live very long eating like that. He said, my granddaddy lived to be 105. And i said you will not live very long. He said, by minding his own business. Sometimes i wish my government were leading leaving me alone a little more and minding its own business. I often say i want a government so small that you can barely get. A government that only does what it is supposed to do according to the constitution. There is something called enumerated powers. We have forgotten about that and we have let government get literally out of control. We have a government that borrows 1 million every minute. Most of us would say we are fiscal conservatives. Everyone here probably says we are for a balanced Budget Amendment. When the balance Budget Amendment comes before the senate, every republican votes for it. The only problem is when you actually put a balance budget forward, only about one third of republicans vote for it. There is a dirty little secret that i will let you in on. That the media will not tell you. The problem with spending is really the responsibility of oath parties. This is something you will not hear from any of the other candidates, but it is the truth, the loudest voices for increasing federal spending right now are republicans. You say that that cannot be true. It is true. There are saying, we have got to have more military spending. The only way they can get it is they have to give the democrats more domestic and more welfare spending. I call it the unholy alliance. Both sides want to raise spending. That is what happened area i kept them up until 3 00 in the morning here they were not happy with me. I was lecturing them until 3 00 and the morning that raising the debt ceiling is a bad idea if you are also raising spending at the same time. If i am president , we will balance the budget and not have any more of this nonsense. [applause] i have introduced three budgets that balanced, within five years. How many votes do we get . About one third of the republicans. This is once again the problem. Republican leadership went along with the president to raise the debt ceiling. How much did we raise the debt ceiling . An unspecified amount. We did not raise it half a trillion. We did not raise it 1 trillion. We raised it an unspecified amount. And we raised the budget caps. It is the second time we did this. Everybody in washington and many on the right are saying, we cannot have a sequester and this is asterisk killing us. Sequester is killing us. We will not have any National Defense with a sequester. It is crazy. Do you know how much money we spend on a National Defense . I believe in a strong National Defense. We had three nephews in the navy. My dad was in the air force and we believe in a Strong Military and a strong National Defense. You are not stronger from bankruptcy court. The biggest threat to our National Security right now is our debt. For the candidates who come before you, lets just say rubio, and they say they want 1 trillion more in militaries military spending, ask them where they will get it. We had a vote on the budget. Marco put forward an amendment to increase no terrorist any by increase military spending by 200 million. And ted cruz seconded it. I say, where will the money come from and are we safer if we are 200 billion more in debt . They said, we are strong, we are we are for Strong Defense and we will just vote for more money. 200 million. I introduced a competing amendment that with have offset test would have increased funding for the military but offset it with cuts. Do you know how many voted for mine . About six. Nobody wants to make the cut. I am telling you sometimes there is no difference between right left. They just want to spend it on different items. The problem is the unholy alliances both come together and spend your money. The sequester was a slowdown in the rate of growth spending. It was not a cut. They say draconian cuts and they are hollowing out the military. It was not a cut. The sequester was a gradual reduction of spending. You see this is the chart for the spending. Here is the chart we are spending with the sequester and they are both increasing. We could not even handle that. The Republican Leadership worked with democrats to get rid of the sequester. I ran for office because i was unhappy that republicans were doubling the debt. Now we will go from 10 trillion under the last republican administration, the debt went from 5 trillion to 10 trillion. Now we are going to go from 10 trillion to 20 trillion. We will add more debt from president obama than all combined. If you do the same thing over and over again, you will get the same result. If you elect a president or nominate a republican who says, we will be the adults and preside over government and there will never be any hick ups we will not challenge the president on any ring because we anything because we always have to keep the government open, the question you have to ask is, keeping something open that borrows 1 million per minute, is that really what you want, or would you rather have someone who uses the leverage , uses the power of the purse, and says enough is enough, lets let it all come to a screeching halt and lets start up only what we need and lets allens balance the budget at the same time. [applause] you may have heard a few candidates say, i will not talk to russia. I think that is what Carly Fiorina said. Shes not going to talk to putin. I think governor said hes going to punch them in the nose. Chris christie says he is going to shoot down russias lane. I think we ought to think fully what kind of temperament we want in commanderinchief. Do we want a commander in chief who is eager to shoot down russias planes, punch russia in the nose, and not talk to putin . Think back to great president who we thought were great president s . Was Ronald Reagan a great president . I think so. My family supported him when i was 13. I went to the National Convention in kansas city, the closest process in 20 years because we were reagan republicans. Reagan talked to gorbachev. One of my favorite stories is he told his advisers he would tell him this story. They all said, do not do it. There will be an international incident. Reagan did what he wanted to do. He told gorbachev a story. There was an accountant and the accountant had won a car. In the soviet union, it was hard to get a car. There was only one dealer. It was owned by the government. Socialism. So he saved money for a year or two. He finally had enough money and went into the state run car dealership and he was so proud and he said, i would like my car. The bureaucrat sneered at him and said, you can come back and get it in a year. He did not miss a beat. He said, will that be on a tuesday or wednesday. The bureaucrat said, i just told you it is going to be year and you want to know if it will be a tuesday or wednesday . And he said yes, the plumber is coming on that tuesday. [laughter] it was a joke that gorbachev could really get here if you because if you have ever lived under socialism, it does not work. But can you imagine this is what i worry about our country. The majority of New Hampshire democrats think socialism and Bernie Sanders is just great. How could that happen . Have they not read any history . Have we not learn from the soviet union . Have we not learned socialism is an abysmal failure . We have won the cold war, why . Because the engine of capitalism defeated the engine of socialism. The engine of socialism was a sputtering wreck. The one thing universal about socialism, it does not produce things well. It does not distribute goods well. On the other side, we have a candidate who may or may not be leading in the polls who tells you he will fix things. Give him power and he will fix things. He is used to having power. His Business Model is, he goes to the local government and says give me land for casinos and i will build them. Who cares of it takes Eminent Domain to take that land . [applause] but there is another tradition and i would venture to say that most of you and most republicans in New Hampshire, are not part of that tradition. We are part of the tradition that dates all the way back to when the magna carta came forth. The magna carta said you cannot have your property taken without due process. Without a jury of your prayer of your peers. We were very conscious of that. We were conscious that propertym is based on rights and Property Rights should not be trivialized. The Supreme Court has gotten this wrong. Your New Hampshire sons, justice souter, did not understand the issue. They allow for private property to be taken from one private Property Owner and give it to another. Do you know where this has led . In places where all bad ideas begin california, and end, california, they have been taking private property. They went to justice suitors house and said we are going to make it into a hotel if you dont mind. Property rights should not be relative. About the era, who lived in her house for 30 years, and when trump tied about a woman named vera who lived in her house for 30 years, and when trump tried to take it, she stood up to him, she took them to court, and she won. The question is, are we going to stand up to somebody who thinks power is a good thing, that he is so smart and so rich that he must be smart, that, if you give him power, he is going to fix things . I think most of us are of an opposite tradition. The constitution was written, Patrick Henry stated well, the constitution was written not to restrain you and the people, but to restrain the government. The history of our country is the history of trying to restrain despotism. It happened with the magna carta. They tried to limit the power of the king. When our Founding Fathers wrote the constitution, they wanted to significantly limit the power of the presidency. The power to go to war was given to congress. A declaration of war is supposed to come from congress. I can tell you one thing. If i am president , we will not go to war without a declaration of war. [applause] you may have noticed the powers that be decided they did not want me in the debate last time. We object to that and we think it was a dirty, rotten, no good deal. We think the polls indicate we should have been there. We tied for fourth in the last poll. We have been alone in front of several of the candidates in the des moines poll. But for better or worse, i think i provide a unique perspective that is healthy for the party. We may not all agree on every issue. But if we want to grow the party, you need a liberty movement, somebody who will go to the southside of chicago, somebody talking about criminal justice and how it is unfair. [applause] i have been to chicago, detroit, highland park, flint, philadelphia, i have been taking a message that we are the party of the bill of rights, that we are the party and were the party of emancipation, the party of civil rights, we are the party that can be bigger and better and bolder. I do not think we have to give up an iota of what we believe in and we do not have to dilute any of our principles. We need to take our principles to new places. Some come before you and say we do not need to do that. We have never been sufficiently conservative. Some of that is true. All we do is rally the base. I disagree. You have to do both. Rally the base, and then have someone who says i will go get new audiences and see if the africanamerican audience will listen to us. I can tell you we are going crazy on College Campuses with kids coming by the thousands to our rallies because i am willing to say the government went too far in collecting phone records. I am willing to say the government should not do that. [applause] john adams said the spark that led to the war for independence was the idea that james was fighting against, generalized warrants, where the british soldiers wrote the warrant but did not have anybodyss name on it. It was a big deal. A much bigger deal than the second amendment. Nobody could even imagine the government would take your guns in those days. But they could imagine british soldiers coming into their house to see if they paid their taxes with a generalized warrant. It was a big deal and that is why they wrote the fourth amendment. People say, how will we catch terrorists . What we do is we target terrorists. We go after them and look at all of their records. Here is the difference between me and the other candidates. Rubio, bush, christie, they all want more surveillance of you. If you come to me and i am the judge and you say, one of the others who did the marathon brothers who did the Boston Marathon bombing, you say, the russians have tipped us off, and he went back to chechnya, and we see on these social postings he is violent. Can we look on his computer . Absolutely. Can we look at his phone calls . Absolutely. Can we keep digging until we find everybody he is connected with . Absolutely. Name the person. Gimme suspicion. Not proof, suspicion. Probable cause, and the judge signs it. I am all for that. But if you ask me if we can look at everybodys records in boston in New Hampshire to try to find that, i am thinking maybe we are giving up something so fundamentally part of who we are that we are giving up something about america in the process. In the process of trying to defend america. [applause] kelly and i have participated in a charity where we build houses for wounded veterans. It is probably one of the most rewarding things i have done in office. In washington, you get frustrated a lot. But we have gone home and we have actually seen the house and seen our neighbors come together, coming to a fundraiser and saying, thank you for inviting me. I would like to give more. Call me again. You do not often go to a fundraiser with people are thanking you for taking their money. We see the houses these people live in and the horror of the injuries. A young man is very brave and saved many of lives. He lost his arm and he list nearby to us. We helped build him a house. When you ask him what were you fighting for, what did you go to war for, he says i took an oath. I took an oath to defend the constitution. I took an oath to defend the bill of rights. What im asking you is, wouldnt it be sad, wouldnt we all be sad if he came home and we gave up on the bill of rights while he was gone fighting for it . We should not do that. [applause] in the debate before last, when they did let me come, it was a good debate over Foreign Policy and it was whether or not regime change is a good idea. This is a healthy debate not only for the party but for the country. We have to ask ourselves what things have worked and what things have not worked. We have to ask ourselves, barack obama and Hillary Clinton and marco rubio and jeb bush, and john mccain and lindsey graham, all said, lets topple gadhafi in libya. We will somehow be better. What happened . We toppled gadhafi and we got chaos. We got the rise of radical islam, one third of libya now pledges allegiance to isis. They killed our ambassador. Im having trouble understanding what the good part of that is. The question is, has it ever been a good idea . We now have another situation. The same situation in syria. There are people in our party, lets just call them john mccain [laughter] who want to bomb both sides of the syrian war, isis and assad. Ask yourself, if you get rid of assad, who will replace him . Thomas jefferson . [laughter] i think you are much more likely to have isis in charge. I have met hundreds if not thousands of syrian christians who live in our country now. They have been there for a long time. I went to medical school with one. You ask them, who would you prefer, they are not jumping up and down saying they love Bashar Alassad or that he is thomas jefferson, but they will say that without question they want assad versus isis. We have to be careful about saying, we know what is best. We will topple assad. I am saying this for three years now and when the Foreign Relations committee voted to send arms in there, i raised my hand and i said, the great irony is, we will be back in a year or two fighting against our own weapons. We have been funding the islamic rebels. People explicitly will tell you, we need to fund the allies of al qaeda. And im like, really . I thought that was who attacked us on 9 11. We are going to fund the people who attacked us . Yes, because theyre not quite as bad as isis. I am like, i think we are talking about gradations of evil here. It is a good debate to have because we disagree on this. And you have to decide. Do you think a regime change is a good idea or maybe, we are to think more along the lines of reagan. People say reagan did it all the time. No, he had a little more nuanced Foreign Policy. He spoke with gorbachev, he never cut off communications with russia. He never said he would punch russia in the nose. He never said we will no longer talk to gorbachev. He negotiated with the soviet union and also believed in peace through strength and negotiated from a position of strength. I think that is what we need. A sensible Foreign Policy. We need to balance our budget, that there can be no sacred cow for right or left, that we have to put our books in order. And i will do it. I will, from day one, say that we have to balance our budget. No exceptions. [applause] i would like to close with a story about criminal justice. The thing we have to understand how will we get our message to resonate with people who do not understand and have never really been part of the republican party. The way we resonate is that we have to understand what it is like to be poor, africanamerican, and living in our big cities. Young black man from the bronx was arrested and accused of a crime. By somebody who did not even live in the country, was not here legally and never again showed up to testify. He was kept for three years in prison with no trial. He was beaten. Who knows what else happened to him. He was kept in solitary confinement for two years. A 16yearold kid. For two years in solitary confinement. Trying to commit suicide multiple times. They finally let him go after three years. Imagine if you are his family, what you think about justice. He finally did commit suicide six months ago. If you went to high school him in the bronx, or you are his parents or parents friend, i think you could start to imagine there is a great anger about feeling that was not justice in our country. If you look at the war on drugs and say, who is using drugs . White kids and black kids are at about the same rate. But white kids are about 80 of the public. If you look at the jail, the jail is three out of four black, poor, living in a neighborhood that has more crime and i am not saying it is racism. It is just the police is there all the time but it adds up. We have to look at the world on drugs because it decimated a whole generation of young africanamerican males. Do you know were some of the rules came from . Bill clinton. Im the only one that could ever challenge the clintons and say, i will go to the Africanamerican Community and i will get votes for republicans like we have never gotten before. [applause] as we take our message around the country, i would say we have to prevent present our message with hope and optimism. There is a painter by the name of robert and he said as he exhorted young painters, he said paint like a man coming over the hill singing. I like that image. I think when we become the party that proclaims our message, with the passion of Patrick Henry, but also the optimism and hope of a man coming over the hill singing, then we will rock and roll to victory. I want to be a part of that and i hope you do. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you. Thank you. They told me i got carried away and i used up all my time except for one question. This lady right here. Thank you. My name is kelly. I am in iraq veteran. When i was in iraq [applause] when i was in iraq, we put our lives on the line, starting private contractors so they could make money. Corporations that profit for more, spent millions of dollars lobbying on campaigns and legislation, what would you do to limit corporate influence on our politicians, who they treat like they are for hire. Mr. Paul a great question. In the first thing i would say is that anybody who gets money from government in the form of a contract should be limited in what they can do to lobby to get more of our money. This is going on nonstop. I think there is a possibility for Campaign Finance reform as long as we understand what the compromise has to be. If we say it is only big business doing this, you will never get any legislation. If we admit it is big business and big unions, and you will to control both, i think we could pass it. [applause] the Supreme Court has ruled that if i am a pro prosecond Amendment Group and want to spend money, that is each and that is free speech and you cannot limit it. The way i would say we get around that, in order to have limitations on people purchasing and influencing government, i would say, if a contractor comes and im getting a billiondollar contract to build tanks or whatever, we need tanks. We have got to have armament. 1 billion. The person building the tanks would have a contract they signed to get the billion dollars. It would say in the contract i agree not to lobby or give contributions to legislators. I think you could restrict special interests by voluntary contract when they do business with government. It is something i have been trying to get the democrats interested in. It is ultimately the one fix the Supreme Court would approve because it would be voluntary. You do not have a right to a government contract. It is a problem. The biggest problem we have is the government spends money and a lot of that money comes back to lobby for more money. My biggest objection with the Federal Reserve right now is they lobby against oversight on themselves. We created them, they are enormously powerful, and they come to the senate and congress and lobby against us overseeing them. That should not happen. I have got a bill to make that illegal also. [applause] i think we should place limits on those who get money from government. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. [applause] quick cspan takes you on the road to the white house. Best access to the candidates, townhall meetings, speeches, meet and greets. We are taking your comments on twitter, facebook, by phone, and always, every event we cover is available on our website, cspan. Org. A couple of the republican president ial candidates did not speak at the New Hampshire gop townhall. Senator dead crews and senator ted cruz and donald trump are both campaigning tonight in iowa. Have a rallyill for ted cruz in waterloo, iowa. Glenn beck will be there. Tomorrow, donald trump will rallyto supporters at a in muscatine, iowa. We will bring that to you at on cspan. Our Newsmakers Program this week also focuses on the runup to the fed brain ninth New Hampshire primary. New hampshire senator Jeanne Shaheen talks about the primary nine february 9 New Hampshire primary. Have sure senator Jeanne Shaheen talks about the primary New Hampshire senator Jeanne Shaheen talks about the primary and her support of Hillary Clinton. Thats tomorrow on cspan. Now on cspan, we want to introduce you to craig timber. He covers technology for the washington post. You have written a series that severalover the past months called the net of insecurity. What is the goal of this series . Last year, oure executive editor summoned me and our editor to his office. He said the internet, how can it be so essential, but so insecure . After the sony hack and others, this project is an attempt to answer that question. Of th is the openness