| 00:00:00 | AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:00:25 | >> THANK YOU. |
| 00:00:35 | MR. |
| 00:00:38 | CHAIRMAN, MR. |
| 00:00:39 | CHAIRMAN AND DELEGATES, -- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:00:57 | MR. |
| 00:00:59 | CHAIRMAN, AND DELEGATES, I ACCEPT YOUR NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. |
| 00:01:05 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:01:24 | I DO SO WITH SENILITY, -- HUMILITY, DEEPLY MOVED BY THE TRUST PLACED IN ME. |
| 00:01:34 | IT IS A GREAT HONOR. |
| 00:01:35 | IT IS AN EVEN GREATER RESPONSIBILITY. |
| 00:01:38 | I ASK YOU TO WALK TOGETHER TO A BETTER FUTURE. |
| 00:01:42 | BY MY SIDE I CHOSEN A MAN WITH A BIG PART FROM A SMALL TOWN. |
| 00:01:48 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:01:51 | HE REPRESENTS THE BEST OF AMERICA. |
| 00:01:54 | A MAN WHO WILL ALWAYS MAKE US VERY PROUD. |
| 00:01:58 | MY FRIEND AND AMERICA'S NEXT VICE-PRESIDENT, PAUL RYAN. |
| 00:02:03 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:02:14 | IN THE DAYS AHEAD, YOU WILL GET TO KNOW PAUL AND JANNA BETTER. |
| 00:02:23 | LAST NIGHT, YOU SAW A STRONG AND CARING LEADER WHO IS DOWN TO EARTH AND CONFIDENCE IN THE CHALLENGE THIS MOMENT DEMANDS. |
| 00:02:30 | I LOVE THE WAY HE LIGHTS UP AROUND HIS KIDS. |
| 00:02:32 | HE IS NOT EMBARRASSED TO SHOW THE WORLD HOW MUCH HE LOVES HIS MOM. |
| 00:02:38 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:02:44 | BUT PAUL, I STILL LIKE THE PLAY LIST ON MY IPOD BETTER THAN YOURS. |
| 00:02:50 | [LAUGHTER] [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:02:53 | FOUR YEARS AGO, I KNOW THAT MANY AMERICANS FELT A FRESH EXCITEMENT ABOUT THE POSSIBILITIES OF A NEW PRESIDENT. |
| 00:03:00 | THAT CHOICE WAS NOT THE CHOICE OF OUR PARTY, BUT AMERICANS ALWAYS COME TOGETHER AFTER ELECTIONS. |
| 00:03:05 | WE ARE A GOOD AND GENEROUS PEOPLE, UNITED BY SO MUCH MORE THAN WHAT DIVIDES US. |
| 00:03:11 | WHEN THAT ELECTION WAS OVER, WHEN THE SIGNS CAME DOWN AND THE TELEVISION COMMERCIALS FINALLY CAME OFF THE AIR, AMERICANS WERE EAGER TO GO BACK TO WORK, TO LIVE OUR LIVES THE WAY AMERICANS ALWAYS HAVE, OPTIMISTIC AND POSITIVE AND CONFIDENT IN THE FUTURE. |
| 00:03:27 | THAT VERY OPTIMISM IS UNIQUELY AMERICAN. |
| 00:03:31 | IT IS WHAT BROUGHT US TO AMERICA. |
| 00:03:34 | WE ARE A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS, THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN OF THE ONES WHO WANTED A BETTER LIFE. |
| 00:03:41 | THE DRIVEN ONES. |
| 00:03:43 | THE ONES WHO WOKE UP AT NIGHT, HEARING THAT VOICE TELLING THEM THAT LIFE IN A PLACE CALLED AMERICA COULD BE BETTER. |
| 00:03:49 | THEY CAME, NOT JUST IN PURSUIT OF THE RICHES OF THIS WORLD, BUT FOR THE RICHNESS OF THIS LIFE. |
| 00:03:57 | FREEDOM, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, FREEDOM TO SPEAK THEIR MIND, FREEDOM TO BUILD A LIFE AND, YES, FREEDOM TO BUILD A BUSINESS WITH THEIR OWN HANDS. |
| 00:04:08 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:04:19 | THIS IS THE ESSENCE OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. |
| 00:04:22 | WE AMERICANS HAVE ALWAYS FELT A SPECIAL KINSHIP WITH THE FUTURE. |
| 00:04:27 | WHEN EVERY NEW WAVE OF EMIGRANTS LOOKED UP AND SAW THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, OR NOT DOWN AND KISS THE SHORES OF FREEDOM 90 MILES FROM CASTRO'S TIERNEY, THEY HAD MANY QUESTIONS, BUT NONE DOUBTED THAT HERE IN AMERICA THEY COULD BUILD A BETTER LIFE. |
| 00:04:46 | THEIR CHILDREN WOULD BE BLESSED MORE THAN THEY. |
| 00:04:50 | TODAY, FOUR YEARS FROM THE EXCITEMENT OF THAT LAST ELECTION, FOR THE FIRST TIME THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS NOW DOUBT THAT OUR CHILDREN WILL HAVE A BETTER FUTURE. |
| 00:04:59 | THAT IS NOT WHAT WE WERE PROMISED. |
| 00:05:01 | EVERY FAMILY IN AMERICA WANTED THIS TO BE A TIME WHEN THEY COULD GET A LITTLE AHEAD, PUT ASIDE A LITTLE MORE FOR COLLEGE, DO MORE FOR THE ELDERLY MOM WHO IS NOW LIVING ALONE. |
| 00:05:12 | GIVE A LITTLE MORE TO THEIR CHURCH OR THEIR CHARITY. |
| 00:05:15 | EVERY SMALL BUSINESS WANTS TO HAVE THIS BE THEIR BEST YEAR EVER, WHEN THEY COULD HIRE MORE, DO MORE FOR THOSE WHO STUCK WITH THEM THROUGH HARD TIMES. |
| 00:05:24 | OPENING A STORE, SPONSOR THAT LITTLE LEAGUE TEAM. |
| 00:05:27 | EVERY NEW COLLEGE GRADUATE THOUGHT THEY WOULD HAVE A GOOD JOB BY NOW. |
| 00:05:31 | A PLACE FOR THEIR OWN. |
| 00:05:33 | THEY COULD START PAYING BACK SOME OF THEIR LOANS AND BUILD FOR THE FUTURE. |
| 00:05:36 | THIS IS WHAT OUR NATION WAS SUPPOSED TO START PAYING DOWN THE NATIONAL DEBT, ROLLING BACK MASSIVE DEFICITS. |
| 00:05:44 | THIS WAS THE HOPE AND CHANGE AMERICA VOTED FOR. |
| 00:05:47 | IT IS NOT JUST WHAT WE WANTED, IT IS NOT JUST WHAT WE EXPECTED, IT IS WHAT AMERICANS DESERVE. |
| 00:05:55 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:06:33 | YOU DESERVED IT BECAUSE YOU WORKED HARDER THAN EVER BEFORE DURING THESE YEARS. |
| 00:06:39 | YOU DESERVE IT BECAUSE, WHEN IT COST MORE TO FILL UP YOUR CAR, YOU PUT IN LONGER HOURS. |
| 00:06:45 | WHEN YOU LOST THAT JOB, YOU TOOK TO JOBS AT $9 AN HOUR INSTEAD. |
| 00:06:55 | -- TWO JOBS AT $9 AN HOUR INSTEAD. |
| 00:06:59 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:07:07 | YOU DESERVE IT BECAUSE YOUR FAMILY DEPENDED ON YOU. |
| 00:07:11 | YOU DID IT BECAUSE YOU ARE AN AMERICAN, AND YOU DO NOT QUIT. |
| 00:07:15 | YOU DID IT BECAUSE THAT WAS BECAUSE YOU HAVE -- WHAT IT WAS BECAUSE YOU HAD TO DO. |
| 00:07:22 | WATCHING THAT GAS PUMP HIT $50 AND STILL GOING. |
| 00:07:25 | WHEN THE REALTOR TOLD YOU THAT YOU WOULD HAVE TO TAKE A BIG LOSS ON YOUR HOUSE. |
| 00:07:29 | AT THOSE MOMENTS, YOU KNEW THIS JUST WAS NOT RIGHT. |
| 00:07:33 | BUT WHAT COULD YOU DO EXCEPT WORK HARDER, DO WITH LESS, TRY TO STAY OPTIMISTIC, HUGGED YOUR KIDS A LITTLE LONGER, MAYBE SPEND MORE TIME PRAYING TOMORROW WOULD BE A BETTER DAY. |
| 00:07:45 | I WISH PRESIDENT OBAMA HAD SUCCEEDED, BECAUSE I WANT AMERICA TO SUCCEED. |
| 00:07:49 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:08:02 | BUT HIS PROMISES GAVE WAY TO DISAPPOINTMENT AND DIVISION. |
| 00:08:06 | THIS IS NOT SOMETHING WE HAVE TO ACCEPT. |
| 00:08:09 | NOW IS THE MOMENT WHEN WE CAN DO SOMETHING. |
| 00:08:11 | WITH YOUR HELP, WE WILL DO SOMETHING. |
| 00:08:15 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:08:24 | NOW IS THE MOMENT WHERE WE CAN STAND UP AND SAY, I AM AN AMERICAN, I MAKE MY DESTINY, WE DESERVE BETTER, MY CHILDREN DESERVE BETTER, MY FAMILY DESERVES BETTER, MY COUNTRY DESERVES BETTER. |
| 00:08:38 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:08:50 | SO HERE WE STAND. |
| 00:08:54 | AMERICANS HAVE A CHOICE, A DECISION. |
| 00:08:57 | TO MAKE THAT CHOICE, THEY NEED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ME AND WHERE I WOULD LEAD AT OUR COUNTRY. |
| 00:09:02 | I WAS BORN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CENTURY, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNTRY. |
| 00:09:06 | THERE IS A TIME WHEN AMERICANS WERE RETURNING FROM WAR AND EAGER TO WORK. |
| 00:09:10 | TO BE AN AMERICAN WAS TO ASSUME THAT ALL THINGS WERE POSSIBLE. |
| 00:09:15 | WHEN PRESIDENT KENNEDY CHALLENGED AMERICANS TO GO TO THE MOON, THE CHALLENGE WAS NOT WHEN -- WHETHER WE WOULD GET THERE, IT WAS WHEN WE WOULD GET THERE. |
| 00:09:27 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:09:30 | THE SOULS OF NEIL ARMSTRONG -- SOLES OF NEIL ARMSTRONG'S BOOTS ON THE MOON MADE PERMANENT IMPRESSIONS ON OUR SOULS. |
| 00:09:41 | LIKE ALL-AMERICAN IS, WE WENT TO BED AT NIGHT KNOWING WE LIVE IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. |
| 00:09:52 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:10:02 | GOT LESS NEILL ARMSTRONG -- GOD BLESS NEIL ARMSTRONG. |
| 00:10:10 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:10:13 | TONIGHT, THAT AMERICAN FLAG IS STILL THERE ON THE MOON. |
| 00:10:16 | I DO NOT -- CANNOT DOUBT FOR A SECOND THAT HIS SPIRIT IS STILL WITH US. |
| 00:10:21 | THAT UNIQUE BLEND OF OPTIMISM, SENILITY, AND THE UTTER CONFIDENCE THAT, WHEN THE WORLD -- OPTIMISM, HUMILITY, AND THE UTTER CONFIDENCE THAT, WHEN THE WORLD NEEDS SOMEONE TO DO THAT, YOU NEED AN AMERICAN. |
| 00:10:36 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:10:43 | MY DAD HAD BEEN BORN IN MEXICO. |
| 00:10:46 | HIS FAMILY HAD TO LEAVE DURING THE MEXICAN REVOLUTIONARY I GREW UP WITH STORIES OF HIS FAMILY BEING FED BY THE U. |
| 00:10:54 | S. GOVERNMENT AS WAR REFUGEES. |
| 00:10:56 | MY DAD APPRENTICED AS A CARPENTER. |
| 00:10:58 | HE HAD BIG DREAMS. |
| 00:11:00 | HE CONVINCED MY MOM, A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG ACTRESS, TO GIVE UP HOLLYWOOD TO MARRY HIM. |
| 00:11:06 | THEY MOVED TO DETROIT. |
| 00:11:08 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:11:13 | HE LED A GREAT AUTOMOBILE COMPANY AND BECAME GOVERNOR OF THE GREAT STATE OF MICHIGAN. |
| 00:11:19 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:11:23 | WE WERE MORMONS. |
| 00:11:27 | GROWING UP IN MICHIGAN, THAT MAY HAVE SEEMED OUT OF PLACE, BUT I DO NOT REMEMBER IT THAT WAY. |
| 00:11:33 | MY FRIENDS CARED MORE ABOUT WHAT SPORTS TEAMS WE FOLLOW THAT WHAT CHURCH WENT TO. |
| 00:11:38 | MY MOM AND DAD GAVE THEIR KIDS THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL. |
| 00:11:42 | THE GIFT OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. |
| 00:11:45 | THEY CARED DEEPLY ABOUT WHO WE WOULD BE AND MUCH LESS ABOUT WHAT WE WOULD DO. |
| 00:11:50 | UNCONDITIONAL LOVE IS A GIFT ISANN AND I-- A GIFT THAT ANN AND I HAVE TRIED TO GIVE IT TO OUR CHILDREN. |
| 00:12:03 | ALL THE LAWS AND LEGISLATION IS IN THE WORLD WILL NEVER HEAL THE WORLD LIKE THE LOT OF MOTHERS AND FATHERS. |
| 00:12:11 | -- LOVE OF MOTHERS AND FATHERS. |
| 00:12:15 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:12:17 | IF EVERY CHILD COULD GO TO SLEEP FEELING TRAPPED IN THE LOVE OF THEIR FAMILY AND GOD'S LOVE, THIS WORLD WOULD BE A FAR MORE GENTLE PLACE. |
| 00:12:27 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:12:32 | MY MOM AND DAD WERE MARRIED FOR 64 YEARS. |
| 00:12:36 | IF YOU WONDERED WHAT THEIR SECRET WAS, YOU COULD HAVE ASKED THE LOCAL FLORIST. |
| 00:12:45 | [LAUGHTER] EVERY DAY, DAD GAVE MOM A ROSE, WHICH HE PUT ON THE BEDSIDE TABLE. |
| 00:12:52 | THAT IS HOW SHE FOUND THAT THE DAY MY FATHER DIED. |
| 00:12:56 | SHE WENT LOOKING FOR HIM BECAUSE, THAT MORNING, THERE WAS NO ROWS. |
| 00:13:00 | MY MOM AND DAD WERE TWO PARTNERS. |
| 00:13:03 | THAT WAS A LIFE LESSON THAT SHAPED ME BY EVERYDAY EXAMPLE. |
| 00:13:07 | WHEN MY MOM RAN FOR THE SENATE, MY DAD WAS THERE FOR HER EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. |
| 00:13:11 | I CAN STILL SEE HER AS SAYING IN HER BEAUTIFUL VOICE, WHY SHOULD WOMEN HAVE ANY LESS SAFE THAN MEN ABOUT THE GREEKS DECISIONS FACING OUR NATION? |
| 00:13:22 | -- GREAT DECISIONS FACING OUR NATION? |
| 00:13:25 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:13:40 | DON'T YOU WISH YOU COULD HAVE BEEN HERE AT THIS CONVENTION AND HEARD LEADERS LIKE GOVERNOR MARY FALLON, GOVERNOR NIKKI HALEY, GOVERNOR SUSANA MARTINEZ, SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE? |
| 00:14:00 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:14:07 | AS GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS, I CHOSE A WOMAN LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, A WOMAN CHIEF OF STAFF. |
| 00:14:14 | HALF OF MY CABINET AND SENIOR OFFICIALS WERE WOMEN. |
| 00:14:18 | IN BUSINESS, AND MENTORED AND SUPPORTED GREAT WOMEN LEADERS WHO WENT ON TO RUN GREAT COMPANIES. |
| 00:14:23 | I GREW UP IN DETROIT, IN LOVE WITH CARS. |
| 00:14:26 | I WANTED TO BE A CAR GUY LIKE MY DAD. |
| 00:14:29 | BY THE TIME I WAS OUT OF SCHOOL I REALIZE I HAD TO GO OUT ON MY OWN. |
| 00:14:33 | IF I STAYED AROUND MICHIGAN IN THE SAME BUSINESS, I WOULD NEVER REALLY KNOW IF I WAS GETTING A BREAK BECAUSE OF MY DAD. |
| 00:14:38 | I WANTED TO GO SOMEPLACE NEW AND IMPROVE MYSELF. |
| 00:14:42 | THOSE WERE NOT THE EASIEST OF DAYS. |
| 00:14:45 | MANY LONG HOURS, WEEKENDS WORKING. |
| 00:14:48 | FIVE YOUNG SONS WHO SEEMED TO HAVE A NEED TO REENACT A DIFFERENT WORLD WAR EVERY NIGHT. |
| 00:14:55 | [LAUGHTER] IF YOU ASK ANN AND I. |
| 00:14:59 | WHAT WE WOULD GIVE TO BREAK UP JUST ONE MORE FIGHT BETWEEN THE BOYS, WAKE UP IN THE MORNING AND DISCOVERED A PILE OF KIDS ASLEEP IN A ROOM. |
| 00:15:08 | EVERY MOM AND DAD KNOWS THE ANSWER TO THAT. |
| 00:15:11 | THOSE DAYS -- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:15:24 | THESE WERE TOUGH DAYS ON ANN, PARTICULARLY. |
| 00:15:30 | SHE WAS HEROIC. |
| 00:15:31 | FIVE BOYS WITH OUR FAMILIES A LONG WAY AWAY. |
| 00:15:34 | I HAD TO TRAVEL A LOT FOR MY JOB THEN. |
| 00:15:37 | I CALLED AND TRIED TO OFFER SUPPORT. |
| 00:15:38 | EVERY MOM KNOWS THAT THAT DOES NOT HELP DID THE HOMEWORK DONE OR GET THE KIDS OUT THE DOOR TO SCHOOL. |
| 00:15:44 | I KNEW THAT HER JOB AS A MOM WAS HARDER THAN MINE. |
| 00:15:48 | I KNEW WITHOUT QUESTION THAT HER JOB AS A MOM WAS A LOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN MINE. |
| 00:15:52 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:16:05 | AS AMERICA SOUGHT TUESDAY NIGHT, ANN WOULD HAVE SUCCEEDED AT ANYTHING SHE WANTED TO DO. |
| 00:16:12 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:16:29 | LIKE A LOT OF FAMILIES IN A NEW PLACE WITH NO FAMILY, WE FOUND KINSHIP WITH A WIDE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS THROUGH OUR CHURCH. |
| 00:16:37 | WHEN WE WERE NEW TO THE COMMUNITY, IT WAS WELCOMING. |
| 00:16:41 | AS THE YEARS WENT BY, IT WAS A JOY TO HELP OTHERS WHO HAD JUST MOVED INTO TOWN OR JUST JOINED OUR CHURCH. |
| 00:16:48 | WE HAD REMARKABLY VIBRANT ENDEAVORS CONGREGATIONS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE. |
| 00:16:52 | MANY WHO WERE NEW TO AMERICA. |
| 00:16:55 | WE PRAYED TOGETHER. OUR KIDS PLAYED TOGETHER. |
| 00:16:57 | WE ALWAYS STOOD READY TO HELP EACH OTHER OUT IN DIFFERENT WAYS. |
| 00:17:01 | THAT IS HOW IT IS IN AMERICA. |
| 00:17:04 | WE LOOK TO OUR COMMUNITIES, OUR FAITHS, OUR FAMILIES, FOR OUR JOY AND SUPPORT, IN GOOD TIMES AND BAD. |
| 00:17:10 | IT IS HOW WE LIVE OUR LIVES AND WHY WE LIVE OUR LIVES. |
| 00:17:14 | THE STRENGTH AND POWER AND GOODNESS OF AMERICA HAS ALWAYS BEEN BASED ON THE STRENGTH AND POWER AND GOODNESS OF OUR COMMUNITIES, OUR FAMILIES, AND OUR FAITH STREES. |
| 00:17:25 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:17:30 | A THAT IS THE BEDROCK OF WHAT MAKES AMERICA AMERICA. |
| 00:17:35 | IN OUR BEST DAYS, WE CAN FEEL THE VIBRANCY OF AMERICAN COMMUNITIES, LARGE AND SMALL. |
| 00:17:41 | WHEN WE SEE THAT NEW BUSINESS OPENING UP DOWNTOWN. |
| 00:17:45 | WHEN WE GO TO WORK IN THE MORNING AND SEE EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE BLOC DURING THE SAME THING TO READ WHEN OUR SON OR DAUGHTER CALLS FROM COLLEGE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT A JOB OFFER THEY SHOULD TAKE. |
| 00:17:54 | YOU TRY NOT TO CHOKE UP WHEN YOU HEAR THE ONE THEY LIKE BEST IS NOT TOO FAR FROM HOME. |
| 00:17:59 | THE GOOD FEELING WHEN YOU HAVE MORE TIME TO VOLUNTEER TO COACH FOR KIDS' SOCCER TEAM OR HELP OUT ON SCHOOL TRIPS. |
| 00:18:07 | FOR TOO MANY AMERICANS, THOSE KIND OF GOOD DAYS ARE HARDER TO COME BY. |
| 00:18:11 | HOW MANY DAYS HAVE YOU WOKEN UP FEELING THAT SOMETHING REALLY SPECIAL WAS HAPPENING IN AMERICA? |
| 00:18:17 | MANY OF YOU THOUGHT THE WAY ON ELECTION DAY FOUR YEARS AGO. |
| 00:18:20 | HOPE AND CHANGE HAD A POWERFUL APPEAL. |
| 00:18:23 | TONIGHT I WOULD ASK A SIMPLE QUESTION TO READ IF HE THOUGHT THAT EXCITEMENT WHEN YOU VOTED FOR BARACK OBAMA, SHOULD YOU NOT FEEL THAT WINNOW THAT HE IS PRESIDENT OBAMA? |
| 00:18:32 | -- WAY NOW THAT HE IS PRESIDENT OBAMA? |
| 00:18:38 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:18:39 | YOU KNOW THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE KIND OF JOB HE HAS DONE AND THE BEST FEELING YOU HAD WAS THE DAY YOU VOTED FOR HIM. |
| 00:18:48 | [LAUGHTER] [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:18:59 | THE PRESIDENT HAS NOT DISAPPOINTED TO BECAUSE HE WANTED TO. |
| 00:19:04 | THE PRESIDENT HAS DISAPPOINTED AMERICA BECAUSE HE HAS NOT LEAD AMERICA IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION IT HE TOOK OFFICE WITHOUT THE BASIC QUALIFICATION THAT MOST AMERICANS HAVE. |
| 00:19:14 | ONE THAT WAS ESSENTIAL TO THE TASK AT HAND. |
| 00:19:16 | HE HAD ALMOST NO EXPERIENCE WORKING IN A BUSINESS. |
| 00:19:20 | JOBS TO HIM ARE ABOUT GOVERNMENT. |
| 00:19:22 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:19:31 | I LEARNED THE REAL LESSONS ABOUT HOW AMERICA WORKS FROM EXPERIENCE. |
| 00:19:37 | WHEN I WAS 37, I HELPED TO START A SMALL COMPANY. |
| 00:19:40 | MY PARTNERS AND I HAD WORKED FOR A COMPANY IN THE BUSINESS OF HELPING OTHER BUSINESSES. |
| 00:19:45 | SOME OF US HAVE THE IDEA THAT, IF WE REALLY BELIEVE OUR ADVICE WAS HELPING COMPANIES, WE SHOULD INVEST IN COMPANIES. |
| 00:19:53 | WE SHOULD BET ON OURSELVES AND OUR ADVICE. |
| 00:19:55 | WE STARTED A NEW BUSINESS CALLED BAIN CAPITAL. |
| 00:19:58 | THE ONLY PROBLEM WAS, WELL WE BELIEVE IN OURSELVES, NOT MANY OTHER PEOPLE DID. |
| 00:20:04 | WE WERE YOUNG AND HAD NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE. |
| 00:20:06 | WE ALMOST DID NOT GET OFF THE GROUND. |
| 00:20:09 | IN THOSE DAYS, SOMETIMES I WONDER IF I HAD MADE A REALLY BIG MISTAKE. |
| 00:20:13 | BY THE WAY, I THOUGHT ABOUT ASKING MY CHURCH'S PENSION FUND TO INVEST, BUT I DID NOT. |
| 00:20:19 | I FIGURED IT WAS BAD ENOUGH THAT I MIGHT LOSE MY INVESTORS' MONEY, BUT I DID NOT WANT TO GO TO HELL, TOO. |
| 00:20:28 | [LAUGHTER] [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:20:35 | SHOWS WHAT I KNOW. |
| 00:20:38 | ANOTHER OF MY PARTNERS GOT THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH PENSION-FUND TO INVEST. |
| 00:20:45 | TODAY, THERE ARE A LOT OF HAPPY RETIRED PRIESTS WHO SHOULD THANK HIM. |
| 00:20:49 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:20:53 | THAT BUSINESS WE STARTED WITH 10 PEOPLE HAS NOW GROWN INTO A GREAT AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY. |
| 00:20:59 | SOME OF THE COMPANIES WE HELP START SARBANES TO KNOW AND HAVE HEARD FROM TONIGHT. |
| 00:21:03 | AN OFFICE COMPANY CALLED STAPLES, WHERE I AM PLEASED TO SEE THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN SHOPPING. |
| 00:21:11 | [LAUGHTER] [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:21:15 | THE SPORTS AUTHORITY, WHICH BECAME A FAVORITE OF MY BOYS. |
| 00:21:19 | WE HELPED START AN EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING COMPANY CALLED BRIGHT HORIZONS THAT FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA PRAISED. |
| 00:21:27 | AT A TIME WHEN NOBODY THOUGHT WE WOULD EVER SEE A NEW STEEL MILL BUILT IN AMERICA, WE TOOK A CHANCE AND BUILD ONE IN THE CORNFIELD IN INDIANA. |
| 00:21:35 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:21:39 | TODAY, STEEL DYNAMICS IS ONE OF THE LARGEST STEEL PRODUCERS IN THE UNITED STATES. |
| 00:21:46 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THESE ARE AMERICAN SUCCESS STORIES. |
| 00:21:49 | YET, THE CENTERPIECE OF THE PRESIDENT'S ENTIRE REELECTION CAMPAIGN IS ATTACKING SUCCESS. |
| 00:21:55 | IS IT ANY WONDER THAT SOMEBODY WHO ATTACKS SUCCESS HAS LED THE WORST ECONOMIC RECOVERY SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION? |
| 00:22:02 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:22:12 | IN AMERICA, WE CELEBRATE SUCCESS. |
| 00:22:15 | WE DO NOT APOLOGIZE FOR SUCCESS. |
| 00:22:17 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:22:37 | NOW WE WERE NOT ALWAYS SUCCESSFUL AT BAIN, BUT NOBODY EVER IS IN THE REAL WORLD OF BUSINESS. |
| 00:22:44 | THAT IS WHAT THIS PRESIDENT DOES NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND. |
| 00:22:47 | BUSINESS AND GROWING JOBS IS ABOUT TAKING RISK, SOMETIMES FAILING, SOMETIMES SUCCEEDING, BUT ALWAYS STRIVING. |
| 00:22:55 | IT IS ABOUT DREAMS. |
| 00:22:56 | USUALLY IT DOES NOT WORK OUT EXACTLY AS YOU MIGHT HAVE IMAGINED. |
| 00:23:00 | STEVE JOBS WAS FIRED AT APPLE. |
| 00:23:03 | THEN HE CAME BACK AND CHANGED THE WORLD. |
| 00:23:06 | IT IS THE GENIUS OF THE AMERICAN FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM TO HARNESS THE EXTRAORDINARY CREATIVITY AND TALENT AND INDUSTRY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WITH A SYSTEM DEDICATED TO CREATING PROSPERITY. |
| 00:23:22 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:23:40 | THAT IS WHY EVERY PRESIDENT SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION WHO CAME BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ASKING FOR A SECOND TERM COULD LOOK BACK AT THE LAST FOUR YEARS AND SAY WITH SATISFACTION, YOU ARE BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS AGO. |
| 00:24:00 | EXCEPT JIMMY CARTER. AND EXCEPT THIS PRESIDENT. |
| 00:24:03 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:24:11 | THIS PRESIDENT CAN ASK US TO BE PATIENT. |
| 00:24:15 | THIS PRESIDENT CAN TELL US IT WAS SOMEBODY ELSE'S FAULT. |
| 00:24:18 | THIS PRESIDENT CAN TELL US THE NEXT FOUR YEARS WILL GET IT RIGHT. |
| 00:24:22 | THIS PRESIDENT CANNOT TELL US THAT YOU ARE BETTER OFF TODAY THAN WHEN HE TOOK OFFICE. |
| 00:24:27 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:24:37 | AMERICA HAS BEEN PATIENT. |
| 00:24:40 | AMERICANS HAVE SUPPORTED THIS PRESIDENT IN GOOD FAITH, BUT TODAY HAS COME THE TIME TO TURN THE PAGE. |
| 00:24:47 | THE DAY HAS COME TO PUT THE DISAPPOINTMENTS OF THE LAST FOUR YEARS BEHIND US, TO PUT ASIDE DIVISIVENESS AND RECRIMINATIONS, TO LOOK AHEAD AT WHAT CAN BE. |
| 00:24:58 | NOW IS THE TIME TO RESTORE THE PROMISE OF AMERICA. |
| 00:25:13 | [APPLAUSE] MANY AMERICANS HAVE GIVEN UP ON THIS PRESIDENT, BUT THEY HAVE NOT EVER THOUGHT OF GIVING UP, NOT THEMSELVES, NOT ON EACH OTHER, AND NOT ON AMERICA. |
| 00:25:25 | WHAT IS NEEDED IN OUR COUNTRY IS NOT COMPLICATED OR PROFOUND. |
| 00:25:30 | IT DOES NOT TAKE A GOVERNMENT COMMISSION TO TELL US WHAT AMERICA NEEDS. |
| 00:25:36 | WHAT AMERICA NEEDS IS JOBS, LOTS OF JOBS. |
| 00:25:45 | [APPLAUSE] IN THE RICHEST COUNTRY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, THIS OBAMA ECONOMY HAS CRUSHED THE MIDDLE CLASS. |
| 00:25:54 | FAMILY INCOME HAS FALLEN BY $4,000, BUT HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS ARE HIGHER. |
| 00:25:58 | FOOD PRICES ARE HIGHER. |
| 00:26:01 | UTILITY BILLS ARE HIGHER, AND GASOLINE PRICES HAVE DOUBLED. |
| 00:26:06 | TODAY MORE AMERICANS WAKE UP IN POVERTY THAN EVER BEFORE. |
| 00:26:10 | NEARLY ONE OUT OF SIX AMERICANS IS LIVING IN POVERTY THESE ARE NOT STRANGERS. |
| 00:26:16 | THESE ARE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS, OUR FELLOW AMERICANS. |
| 00:26:20 | HIS POLICIES HAVE NOT HELPED CREATE JOBS. |
| 00:26:24 | THEY HAVE TO PRESENT THEM, AND THIS I CAN TELL YOU ABOUT WHERE PRESIDENT OBAMA WOULD TAKE AMERICA. |
| 00:26:31 | HIS PLAN TO PUT TAXES ON SMALL BUSINESSES WILL NOT ADD JOBS. |
| 00:26:36 | IT WILL ELIMINATE THEM. |
| 00:26:40 | HIS ASSAULT ON COAL AND GAS AND OIL WILL SEND ENERGY AND MANUFACTURING JOBS TO CHINA. |
| 00:26:53 | [APPLAUSE] HIS TRILLION DOLLAR CUTS TO OUR MILITARY WILL ELIMINATE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS AND ALSO PUT OUR SECURITY AT GREATER RISK. |
| 00:27:04 | HIS $716 BILLION CUT TO MEDICARE TO FINANCE OBAMACARE WILL HURT TODAY'S SENIORS AND OPPRESS INNOVATION IN JOBS AND MEDICINES. |
| 00:27:15 | HIS TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT SAW, A SLOWER ECONOMY, RESTRAIN EMPLOYMENT, AND CAUSE WAGES TO STOP. |
| 00:27:24 | TO THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WHO NOW BELIEVE THE FUTURE WILL NOT BE BETTER THAN THE PAST, I CAN TELL YOU IF A ROCK OBAMA IS REELECTED, YOU WILL BE RIGHT -- IF BARACK OBAMA IS REELECTED, YOU WILL BE RIGHT. |
| 00:27:38 | I AM RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT TO HELP CREATE A BETTER FUTURE, A FUTURE WHERE EVERYONE WHO WANTS A JOB CAN FIND A JOB, WHERE NO SENIOR FEARS FOR THUSE SECURITY OF THEIR RETIREMENT, AND A CHILD WILL GET AN EDUCATION THAT LEADS TO A GOOD JOB, AND I HAVE A PLAN TO CREATE 12 MILLION NEW JOBS. |
| 00:28:21 | [APPLAUSE] PAUL RYAN AND I HAVE FIVE STEPS. |
| 00:28:25 | FIRST, BY 2020, NORTH AMERICA WILL BE AN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE BY TAKING INVENTED OF OUR OIL, ARE COLD, AND OUR GAS. |
| 00:28:38 | -- OIL, COAL, GAS. |
| 00:28:46 | [APPLAUSE] SECOND, WE WILL GIVE OUR FELLOW CITIZENS THE SKILLS THEY NEED FOR THE JOBS OF TODAY AND THE CAREERS OF TOMORROW. |
| 00:28:53 | WHEN IT COMES TO THE SCHOOL YOUR CHILD WILL ATTEND, EVERY PARENT SHOULD HAVE A CHOICE, AND EVERY CHILD SHOULD HAVE A CHANCE. |
| 00:29:08 | [APPLAUSE] THIRD, WE WILL MAKE TRADE WORK FOR AMERICA BY FORGING NEW TRADE AGREEMENTS, AND WHEN NATIONS SHEET IN TRADE, THERE WILL BE UNMISTAKABLE CONSEQUENCES. |
| 00:29:21 | -- WHEN NATIONS CHEAT IN TRADE, THERE WILL BE UNMISTAKABLE CONSEQUENCES, AND FOURTH, TO INSURE EVERY ENTREPRENEUR AND JOBS CREATOR THEIR INVESTMENTS IN AMERICA WILL NOT VANISH AS THEY HAVE INCREASED. |
| 00:29:39 | AND WE WILL CUT THE DEFICIT AND PUT AMERICA ON TRACK TO A BALANCED BUDGET. |
| 00:29:56 | [APPLAUSE] FIFTH, WE WILL CHAMPION SMALL BUSINESSES, AMERICA'S ENGINE OF JOB GROWTH. |
| 00:30:03 | THAT MEANS REDUCING TAXES ON BUSINESS, NOT RAISING THEM. |
| 00:30:07 | IT MEANS MODIFYING REGULATIONS THAT HURT SMALL BUSINESSES THE MOST, AND IT MEANS WE MUST REIN IN SKYROCKETING COST OF HEALTH CARE BY REPEALING OBAMACARE. |
| 00:30:36 | [APPLAUSE] TODAY WOMEN ARE MORE LIKELY THAN MEN TO START OF BUSINESS. |
| 00:30:41 | THEY NEED A PRESIDENT WHO RESPECT AND UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY DO. |
| 00:30:47 | LET ME MAKE THIS CLEAR. |
| 00:30:48 | UNLIKE PRESIDENT OBAMA, I WILL NOT RAISE TAXES ON THE MIDDLE CLASS OF AMERICANA. |
| 00:31:04 | [APPLAUSE] AS PRESIDENT, I WILL RESPECT THE SANCTITY OF LIFE. |
| 00:31:08 | I WILL HONOR THE INSTITUTE OF MARRIAGE. |
| 00:31:16 | I WILL GUARANTEE AMERICA PAUSE FIRST LIBERTY, THE FREEDOM OF RELIGION. |
| 00:31:32 | PRESIDENT OBAMA PROMISE TO BEGIN TO SLOW THE RISE OF THE OCEANS. |
| 00:31:49 | [LAUGHTER] AND TO HEAL THE CLASS NEXT -- THE PLANET. |
| 00:31:59 | MY PROMISES TO HELP YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. |
| 00:32:34 | [APPLAUSE] I WILL BEGIN MY PRESIDENCY WITH THE JOBS TOUR. |
| 00:32:38 | PRESIDENT OBAMA BEGAN HIS WITH AN APOLOGY TO OUR. |
| 00:32:46 | AMERICA AND HE SAID DICTATED TO OTHER NATIONS. |
| 00:32:48 | NO, AMERICA HAS THREE OTHER NATIONS FROM DICTATORS. |
| 00:32:56 | -- FREED OTHER NATIONS FROM DICTATORS. |
| 00:33:01 | >> USA, USA, USA! USA, USA, USA! LIKE EVERY AMERICAN WAS RELIEVED THE DAY PRESIDENT OBAMA I GAVE THE ORDER AND SEAL TEAM 6 TOOK OUT OSAMA BIN LADEN. |
| 00:33:32 | ON ANOTHER FRONT, EVERY AMERICAN IS LESS SECURE TODAY BECAUSE HE HAS FAILED TO SLOW IRAN'S NUCLEAR THREAT. |
| 00:33:40 | IN HIS FIRST TV INTERVIEWER AS PRESIDENT, HE SAID WE SHOULD TALK TO A ROUND. |
| 00:33:47 | WE ARE STILL TALKING, AND CENTRIFUGES ARE STILL SPENDING. |
| 00:33:51 | PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS THROWN ALLIES LIKE ISRAEL UNDER THE BUS EVEN AS HE HAS RELAXED SANCTIONS ON CUBA. |
| 00:33:57 | HE ABANDONED OUR FRIENDS IN POLAND BY WALKING AWAY FROM MISSILE DEFENSE COMMITMENTS, BUT IF HE IS EAGER TO GIVE PRESIDENT CLINTON THE FLEXIBILITY -- PRESIDENT HU INPUTIN THE FLEXIBILITY HE DESIRES. |
| 00:34:18 | UNDER MY PRESIDENCY OUR FRIENDS WILL SEE MORE LOYALTY AND MR. |
| 00:34:24 | PUTIN WILL SEE MORE BACKBONE. |
| 00:34:44 | [APPLAUSE] WE WILL HONOR AMERICA'S DEMOCRATIC IDEALS BECAUSE OF FREE WORLD IS A MORE PEACEFUL WORLD. |
| 00:34:52 | THIS IS BIPARTISAN FOREIGN LEGACY OF TREMENDOUS AND REAGAN, AND OTHER MY PRESIDENCY -- OF TRUMAN AND REAGAN, AND OTHER MINE -- UNDER MY PRESIDENCY WE WILL RETURN TO IT AGAIN. |
| 00:35:10 | YOU MIGHT ASK YOURSELF IF THE NEXT FEW YEARS ARE REALLY THE AMERICA WE WANT. |
| 00:35:15 | THE AMERICA THAT WAS WON BY THE GREATEST GENERATION. |
| 00:35:19 | AS THE AMERICA WE WANT OUR A ONE TRILLION DOLLARS FROM CHINA? |
| 00:35:24 | A DOZEN FAILED TO FIND THE JOBS NEEDED BY $23 MILLION AND HALF THE KIDS GRADUATING FROM COLLEGE -- DOES IT FAIL TO FIND THE JOBS NEEDED BY $23 MILLION GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE? |
| 00:35:45 | THE AMERICA WE ALL KNOW HAS BEEN A STORY OF MANY BECOMING ONE. |
| 00:35:51 | UNITED TO PRESERVE LIBERTY, UNITED TO BUILD THE GREAT AS THE ECONOMY IN THE WORLD, UNITED TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM UNSPEAKABLE DARKNESS. |
| 00:36:01 | EVERYWHERE I GO THERE ARE MONUMENTS AND NOW FOR THOSE WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES FOR AMERICA. |
| 00:36:07 | THERE IS NO MENTION OF THEIR RACE, PARTY AFFILIATION, OR WHAT THEY DO FOR A LIVING. |
| 00:36:24 | [APPLAUSE] THEY LIVED AND DIED UNDER A SINGLE FLAG FIGHTING FOR A SINGLE PURPOSE. |
| 00:36:30 | THEY PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. |
| 00:36:34 | THAT UNITED AMERICA CAN UNLEASH AN ECONOMY THAT WILL AMERICANS BACK TO WORK, BUT WILL ONCE AGAIN LEAD THE WORLD TO INNOVATION AND PRODUCTIVITY AND WILL RESTORE EVERY FATHER AND MOTHER IS CONFIDENCE THEREIR CHILDREN'S FUTURE IS BRIGHTER. |
| 00:36:54 | THAT UNITED AMERICA WILL HAVE A MILITARY SO STRONG NO NATION WILL EVER DARE TO TEST IT. |
| 00:37:13 | [APPLAUSE] THAT AMERICA, THAT UNITED AMERICA WILL OF HOLD THE CONSOLATION OF RIGHTS ENDOWED BY OUR CREATOR AND CODIFIED IN OUR CONSTITUTION. |
| 00:37:29 | THAT UNITED AMERICA WILL CARE FOR THE POOR AND SICK, WILL HONOR AND RESPECT THE ELDERLY WHILE GIVING A HELPING HAND TO THOSE IN NEED. |
| 00:37:37 | THAT IS THE BEST WITHIN REACH OF US. |
| 00:37:41 | THAT AMERICA WE WANT FOR OUR CHILDREN. |
| 00:37:44 | IF I AM ELECTED PRESIDENT, I WILL WORK WITH ALL MY ENERGY AND SOLD TO RESTORE THAT AMERICA, TO LIFT OUR EYES TO A BETTER FUTURE. |
| 00:37:55 | THAT FUTURE IS OUT THERE. |
| 00:37:58 | IT IS WAITING FOR US. |
| 00:37:59 | OUR CHILDREN DESERVE IT. |
| 00:38:01 | OUR NATION DEPENDS ON IT. |
| 00:38:04 | THE PEACE AND FREEDOM REQUIRES IT, AND WE WILL DELIVER IT. |
| 00:38:09 | LET US THE LIVER THAT FUTURE TONIGHT. |
| 00:38:13 | MATE -- LET US DELIVER THE FUTURE TONIGHT. |
| 00:38:16 | MAY GOD BLESS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. |
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| 00:43:16 | [APPLAUSE] [APPLAUSE] (music) (music) [APPLAUSE] (music) (music) [APPLAUSE] (music) (music) [APPLAUSE] >> BACK TO PERFORM, PLEASE WELCOME THE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH CHORUS. |
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| 00:49:16 | [APPLAUSE] [APPLAUSE] [APPLAUSE] [APPLAUSE] [APPLAUSE] >> PLEASE WELCOME BACK SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, JOHN BOEHNER, THE PERMANENT CHAIRMAN OF THE 2012 REPUBLICAN CONVENTION, WHO WILL LEAD THE CLOSING CEREMONIES. |
| 00:49:31 | >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, DELEGATES, IT IS MY HONOR TO INTRODUCE THE FIRST LEARNED -- THE PERSON WHO WILL GIVE THE FINAL BENEDICTION OF THE 2012 REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. |
| 00:49:51 | OUR PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT OF AMERICA THE POOR DOES NOT EASILY IT WHO TRANSFER ENTER PREFERENTIAL GOVERNMENT. |
| 00:50:06 | I AM BLESSED TO HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF WELCOMING AMERICAN CAUSE SHEPARD, AND WHEN THE ARCHBISHOP OF NEW YORK. |
| 00:50:40 | >> WITH FIRM RELIANCE ON THE PROTECTION OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE, LET'S PRAY. |
| 00:50:51 | ALMIGHTY GOD, FATHER OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB, AND JESUS, WHO WE THANK YOUR BLESSINGS ON FREEDOM AND ALL THOSE WHO PROUDLY CALL AMERICA HOME. |
| 00:51:07 | WE ASK YOUR BENEDICTION ON THOSE YET TO BE BORN AND THOSE WHO ARE ABOUT TO SEE YOU AT THE END OF THIS LIFE, PLUS THOSE FAMILIES WHO ANCESTORS ARRIVED ON THESE SHORES GENERATIONS AGO AS WELL AS THOSE FAMILIES THAT HAVE COME RECENTLY TO BUILD A BETTER FUTURE WHILE WEAVING THEIR LIVES TO BUILD A RICH TAPESTRY OF AMERICA. |
| 00:51:33 | WE LIVE TO YOUR LOVING CARE OF THOSE AFFLICTED BY THE RECENT STORMS AND DROUGHT AND FIRE. |
| 00:51:41 | HERE AGAIN WE ASK FOR THE GREECE TO STAND IN SOLIDARITY FOR ALL THOSE WHO SUFFER. |
| 00:51:48 | MAY WE STRIVE TO INCLUDE YOUR TIRED, POOR, HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREAK FREE IN THE PROSPERITY OF OF PEOPLE AND NOT RICHLY BLESSED. |
| 00:52:04 | -- PEOPLE RICHLY BLESS. |
| 00:52:06 | WE ASK YOUR GUIDANCE AND THOSE WHO GOVERN US, THE SUPREME COURT, AND THOSE WHO SEEK TO SERVE THE COMMON GOOD BY SEEKING A PLEASANT -- PUBLIC OFFICE, ESPECIALLY GOVERNOR ROMNEY AND CONGRESSMAN RYAN. |
| 00:52:25 | MAKE THEM WORTHY TO SERVE YOU BY SERVING OUR COUNTRY AND HELP THEM REMEMBER THE ONLY JUST GOVERNMENT IS THE GOVERNMENT ASSERTS ITS CITIZENS RATHER THAN ITSELF. |
| 00:52:37 | ALMIGHTY GOD, WHO GIVES US THE SACRED GIFT OF LIFE, WE THANK YOU AS WELL FOR THE SINGULAR GIFT OF LIBERTY. |
| 00:52:51 | RENEWING OUR RESPECT FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN FULL, THAT MOST CHERISHED FREEDOM. |
| 00:52:56 | MAKE US TRULY FREE BY TETHERING FREEDOM TO TRUTH AND GOODNESS. |
| 00:53:05 | HOW DOES HE WHICH ARE FREE IMPRUDENTLY, WITH JUSTICE, COURAGEOUSLY, IN A SPIRIT OF MODERATION. |
| 00:53:12 | AND KINDLE IN OUR HEARTS A SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR FREEDOM'S CAUSE AND MAKE US GRATEFUL FOR THOSE WHO FOR MORE THAN TWO CENTURIES HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES IN FREEDOM COST OF CENTS. |
| 00:53:25 | WE COMMEND THEIR NOBLE SOULS TO YOUR OWN INTERNAL CARE, AS EVEN NOW WE'D BEG YOUR MIGHTY HAND UPON OUR BELOVED MEN AND WOMEN OF UNIFORM, MAY WE KNOW THE TRUTH, RESPECTING NATURE AND NATURE'S GOD AND NOT SEEK TO REPLACE IT WITH IDYLLS OF OUR OWN MAKING. |
| 00:53:46 | GIVE US THE SENSE NOT TO CAST ASIDE THE BOUNDARIES OF RIGHTEOUS LIVING YOU FIRST INSCRIBED ON OUR HEARTS, EVEN BEFORE INSCRIBING THEM ON TABLETS OF STONE. |
| 00:53:58 | MAY YOU MEN ARE EVERY FLAW, CONFIRMING OUR SELF CONTROL, -- MAY YOU MEND OUR EVERY FLAW, CONFIRMING YOUR SELF CONTROL, AS WE THANK YOU FOR GENEROSITY WITH WHICH YOU HAVE BLESSED THIS NATION. |
| 00:54:16 | WE BESEECH YOUR BLESSING ON ALL THOSE WHO DEPARTED THIS EVENING AND ALL THOSE WHO SEEK TO CONDUCT THEIR LIVES IN FREEDOM. |
| 00:54:25 | MOST OF ALL, WE THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT GIFT OF OUR BELOVED COUNTRY, FOR WE ARE INDEED ONE NATION UNDER GOD, AND IN GOD WE TRUST. |
| 00:54:35 | GOD BLESS AMERICA, YOU WHO LIVE AND REIGN FOREVER AND EVER, AMEN. |
| 00:54:51 | [APPLAUSE] >> THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE DELEGATE FROM MICHIGAN FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING THE MOTION. |
| 00:55:02 | >> MR. CHAIRMAN, MICH. |
| 00:55:04 | , AND THE BIRTHPLACE OF AN ROMNEY AND MITT ROMNEY IT MOVES AHEADTHAT WE DO NOW ADJOURN. |
| 00:55:21 | >> THANK YOU. >> NOW ON THE MOTION TO ADJOURN, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. |
| 00:55:28 | AYES HAVE IT. |
| 00:55:31 | THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION STANDS ADJOURNED. |
| 00:55:56 | [APPLAUSE] (music) >> (music) LIVING |
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