An hour with Newt Gingrich

from the dole institute of politics at the university of kansas keep your prisons former speaker of the house newt gingrich gingrich was considered one of the more polarizing forces in national politics at the end of the twentieth century first elected to congress in nineteen seventy eight the georgia republican co authored the contract with america a series of political platforms credited with leading the republican party to victory in nineteen ninety four and regaining control of the house of representatives for the first time in forty years time magazine named gingrich their man of the year in nineteen ninety five the same year he became speaker of the house he resigned the post in nineteen ninety nine following the nineteen ninety eight midterm elections when republicans lost five seats gingrich has written twenty best selling books including eleven works of historical fiction gingrich spoke at the royal institute of politics on november fourth two thousand nine and now here is a former speaker of the house insurance

first off thank you very much all of you for coming out the ceiling and i'm on a delighted to have the scanner turn around i realize it is partially a sign that the world series is not quite as important as a basketball game and therefore wasn't as bad as it could've been but i'm still blighted kabir i'm glad to be here on behalf of the dole institute because i work a bubble for many many years and so it's a great honor for me to be alive because the lacey and the light of the job than those doing although i have to confess when they design my visited a part of it was exactly what i like to do because you want to your extraordinary natural history museum which if you have not been doing recently i really recommend you go to it because that may be of the best university natural history museum united states and its extraordinary facility and i think here is just a tremendously fun time relaxing i'm looking at fossils of paleontology and

talking to write decisions of staff i'm talking about big ideas and then we left the paleontology collection of one across to politics in pizza and that was fun as a student gathering the students commonly a thousand dollars to two dozen visiting her people and you get to chat with the students directly and answer questions and have a real dialogue and that i want is truly bizarre course on conspiracies and paranoid now i was her report all of you if you come from washington the harlem you do not need to spend part of your day and conspiracies and paranoid i'm eleven just left the city which is the largest single generator of conspiracies of paranoia michael but we had a great time with the students and and others really have various and glasses two things were very engaged and as a former history teacher was a great great years the

top of them so i really enjoyed it but i've now got into conversation which i can close a close close links with you you get some years forgotten this review as something you can't figure as all saw it i need a little help i'm hoping that somewhere either in this room or in the other room we have a genuine serious student of today you host ally says background the way that i'm i'm glad to be back as a young kid i spent three years of war rally with my father and so i had a fair amount of time growing up in kansas and my dad came back and served eleven words of the command staff college and for a number of years out in back out and teach the year that plan stefan's i'm thrilled of chairs come back and be with you and also to say that very few of the like are traditional where she's a former congresswoman jan meyers is here and jan i wish you'd disturb would take about ten is an

example of america's best because when we were in the middle of trying to think through welfare reform which was the most successful conservative reform in the last seventy years sixty five percent of people on welfare either went to work you went to school and an extraordinary achievement we're trying to think it's ruined about the jam was adamant that in her experiences state legislature she was convinced you could not marginally change they had to fundamentally rethink it from the ground up and because of her tenacity and her willingness to get in a really intense arguments ah oui you ended up ultimately bringing in government other than governor thompson governor in here and their staffs and for one of the very few times in history we actually at the governors state level staffers in the room with the various congressional staffers jointly writing the bill to make sure that it was practical that was implemented will and that would really work and jan deserves a great deal of credit

of the most successful asset to say i i can't come to kansas without coming a couple of the woodwork with i don't know of any member of congress who showed more consistent courage and pat roberts when he worked with me for the contract with america in the entire process of agriculture reform and he works so hard and he personifies a marine corps tradition of always being faithful courageously doing what he thinks is right are and i know from experience over the years both of my wife used to work for him and some of our very dear friends a jacket that rover is abortion right now and ugh pat literally bounces service to kansas and service to the nation with as much intensity as anybody i know and you see him you know to say thank you for the quality of service that he

gives a state a remarkable day i also say that that i'm honored to serve with sam brownback on end without getting any way partisan on any way political and the fact that he may someday of govern from his name's tracy is a good thing but that's a personal observation in passing and should not be taken in many ways a political comment nor will the fact that i have to report to the jerry moran called me last night and that is you know he's fairly busily engaged in crisscrossing the state and we had a great conversation and i was also a picture of running it a different attack tonight i am not getting into primaries i guess when you know you have a good delegation of hardworking people who care deeply about the state and cared deeply about the country and other some even bigger problem now i go back to my problem so we will have this afternoon i have several people with me cristina martin who's over here somewhere steve everley more graduates ok you have the appropriate level of

passion fanaticism intense belief of living the dream all and so we were we were working our way through rock shop jerry and we were trying to make sure that i could learn those but i'm a historian says her sole wanna know you know as somebody who used to live in the state one that it replaces raul roger brought and then to turn out was eighty nine establish yourself on some point down the road and so when the state of rotary club where we use that as a sign that i know something about kansas mr myers as opposed to say that the struggle or to be a civil war although some people you talk about are but then wound stays as i'm passing because you know he's a very good student he's an honors graduate in a nose for among all that theodore roosevelt once said that rob trump jr was the best chance to many college and right now

crude always good applause for teddy with those comic world and i thought i got to help him out a little bit here but i didn't because i didn't you know some level to work with me forget occasion i actually once upon a time got a phd in history and it occasionally used to teach history so i said innocently so when the theodore roosevelt's it and why did he said i will report you without in any way embarrassing steve that for two hours has been on in the finances are so earnest putting out here if any of your next few days find somebody who knows when theodore roosevelt said this unwise said if you and the least you know you'll get me the information so that summit an element television you're doing an interview sometimes i can drop the sort of thing that makes people think he really know because it's inconceivable that anybody would know and so now i like your help with that point and then i could say well you know when you think of a great great college like

rock shot jr when you think about theodore roosevelt talking about it as the best chant the country would one really shine in his eyes will glaze over totally you have no idea why it's doing it everybody in this room will know where star chris so whenever a couple messages outline a way of thinking about the future and then just toss it open one of a conversation i like coming to academic settings because i think we actually need a very serious conversation about america's future and i think we need a conversation which transcends negative advertising thirty second commercials flop and press conferences debates and television and gets into a serious underlying dialogue where people over a third of time really ask you know what we doing in and how himself and i think the combination of having the current economic problems having challenges

the run from does her to south eleven on to a rack to iran to afghanistan the pakistan india to sell thailand indonesia to the philippines to north korea to recently arrested in denver detroit and new york for terrorists and the fact that we have a very radical regime and in the white house and congress which are trying to pass a very very large scale change as rapidly as they can and with his little public involvement as they can that whole combination of things i think has lead the american people to a greater willingness to have a fundamental conversation that we've had in a long time and i think in that sense we may be at the edge of one of the great learning period is to really get us to come together as a country was very instinct if you look at the election results last night which suddenly became very decisive the last weekend with other republican bob mcdonnell winning the governor's race in virginia by fifty nine to forty one which is the

largest margin for republican history and a swing of about twenty five points from where obama was a nun one year ago and looking at chris christie winning the governor's race in new jersey by four times the margin that christie whitman won it by nineteen ninety three the last time in this kind of setting and doing so despite the fact that incumbent governor expand all over twenty four million dollars of the money and goldman sachs to work or try to buy the cd get the us can pursue a fourteen all what you saw happening is people were engaged in dialogue for for months and suddenly got time to make a decision and you could see them close up and you could see them think of throat and suddenly both states begin to clap once and i think for the country we need that kind of conversation and i think we actually have i think there are three large

questions that are going to fundamentally beside the future the first is who are we the second is how do you create prosperity we're competing with china mindy and the third is who wants to hurt us and how we keep america and i was safe i think those three questions are so fundamental to our future the jeff to start there because how you answer those three x he chose to a whole range of second variant we generally down and the weeds return to be arguing over this bill or that bill was a memo that a man who really matters is actually appear so fundamental vision of the values that define us and the things we're trying to achieve so like me walking through those three for government the most important question

my daughter jackie cushman writes a column couple weeks ago she wrote we thought we were voting for change you could you could believe in and discover a voting for someone who wanted to change what we believe there was actually a very profound insight only show the one that we just wrote a new novel called to try men's souls which is about the american revolution and about george washington crossing the delaware on christmas day seventy seventy six with ice of the river and one pharaoh's army without boots are wearing having rap their feet in burlap bags of a lonely would march on an icy road from nine miles to trim leaving a trail of blood behind and in studying in researching and developing the novel and looking at the founding fathers were really comes through is they actually meant that that question of condoms and i think we don't teach this enough in our schools we don't talk about this in the declaration of this is a political bludgeon and yet

set we are endowed by our creator with certain noble rights among which are life liberty and the pursuit of that because a lot of the other city wells first of all we are the only society in history that says power comes from god to each one of you personally your personally sovereign and then you long power to the government which is why we begin our constitution we the people in and say it's not the lawyers not the bureaucrats not the politicians not the judges power resides in america in the sovereignty of the people jefferson was fanatic about this which is where we get the tenements that define our rights well it's a very big decisions by and yet many of our modern schools layman teacher kids what the words mean how do you go on a modern school and say let me explain why the founding fathers wrote

and then you have to remember this you usually do so you know other seizure activity has to give states and you wonder what is the nobility in states and illinois louisiana writes when in fact we have no basis for defending the rights of all we are is randomly other product wasn't who could've been rhinoceros is but got lucky then there's no protection against the state then we are creatures of the state sold one orwell's nineteen eighty four the second part of this with ice is essential we are endowed with the right to pursue happiness this was a scottish enlightenment turn the men wisdom and portugal did not mean hedonism right to not mean acquisition and we know this because jefferson owned a copy of this with the scottish philosopher wrote in neighboring jefferson underline the phrase in

his book but those words has pursued as a fundamental choice priscilla implies you know endowed by god with rights but by the way you have some obligations you have you have to have the work ethic you have to be prepared to pursue you have to be willing to learn to not do so is to deny god's unknown migrant pretty think about it pretty heavy stuff these people were not playing games notice another implication to pursue not entitlement know places a year entitled to be happy no place to say it doesn't say you have a right to litigate if you're unhappy no prices and say we need a federal department of happiness we should issue happiness means for the unhappy you need to

redistribute happiness because the happiest people were unfairly happy union have these people and how this cultural question who are we is central to everything else the files i personally believe the most important single political slogan twenty years is the phrase too close to it was for i was going to sell me as a couple of you you're saying exactly what does that mean and i'd say why they were the poorest people began repelling after pope john paul the second nine day visit in nineteen seventy nine which we've gotten into these reports they're making a movie about it called nineties achieves world they really began to rise against the soviet state and they began printing posters that said too close to it was for and in a situation of the

state chose to poland doesn't have a history if the state tells you have the right to direct across the line the state tells you were not allowed to work in key parties the line and park a matter come out of orwell who in nineteen eighty four as the torture saying to the innocent citizens whose tortured if we tell you two plus two equals fifteen equals fifteen and we try to close to closely at grocery because where the state usually does and the citizens thinking whether the eagles for camo road and the play there are times when a man can be killed for saying too close to eagles for because the authorities can't stand the truth very think captures prices were really an american example you'll understand why i think there's cultural question is at the heart of our current problem and maybe half of that equation

that fits american analyst if you open the other hand if you can afford to buy a house built by a rant haven't you generally agree if you can afford to buy a house though but says the rays interviewed me who can afford it while still by that are important to say well you certainly for twenty five years with the line twenty five years he said did you get he can afford to buy a house and they get in one with no down payment no credit you have to pay any principal for three years of previous of the low crime and history yes perhaps they can afford was so they can't they go broke the event happens to one person it's a personal tragedy covers two million people to national crisis yet have you heard anybody in nashville fourteen either party it suggested that maybe the core problem is cultural not economic not

financial not political the leaders' different communities and if you don't learn you shouldn't get a diploma every time we get a student we cheat them for life we totally misleading you know through twenty things you can fix the health system unless you reset a responsible individuals if you can deal with diabetes asthma arthritis inquiry rest of disease unless the individual singing you can get women for breast cancer diagnostics unless they want to so many of the whole different it's a question of financing to question of the whole major the whole system to either turned over a salute we try to shift around who pays for systems row right advisors the thing through fiction says two so this whole question of who are we how honest can we be no don't

tell me to have transparency and passed a seven hundred and eighty seven billion dollars bill that no one has read this is blatantly it insults the intelligence of every american but if the slowdown and actually of all the bills printed and russia are other big asian was going on and wrong and have actually responsible unless you have to study and learn and i said to save enough to buy a house he actually earned it this will be a different country and very wrenching change is a process and that's a big decision that is the core decision we become a country endowed by its creator with certain animal rights which are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness or we become a secular socialist european state with a big government and small people you hear you have responsible people and a limited government not a weak government a limited time over here you have a huge government as

incompetent bureaucratic in tiny people were toward says the core decision in america's future everything else was sucked out how to compete with china india and the only writer china and india are not a problem shine in your affect what we do about it is a problem there are a billion chinese who have every right to pursue happiness a billion indians who have every right to pursue happiness there are rolling out the sleaze know a convoy and for the first time in about a hundred and seventy years women have real competitors of our scale first reason the sad boy the best single descriptions is a movie called two million minutes which i recommend or do you get it to eminence dot com and it's a brilliant film to my missus for years a high school

as shows you two indians to chinese into americans and four years old and the only rule was that we're a country aggressively preparing for the nineteen fifty six olympics and what i can win any medals in two thousand twelve nineteen fifty six and so really challenges you think about the scale of change we are judgment we created american solutions or run over a simple marble i have two grandchildren maggie's tim robertson my deepest goal is for them and their forties and fifties to be safe prosperous and free to do that i believe they have to be in the most productive most creative society in the world because the only lighting the most productive most korea society and sustain a family and sustain a national security system now i believe to do that if you're really honest anyways benchmark your competitors annually say what's authentic

i believe that it requires us to fundamentally rethink litigation regulation taxation education health energy infrastructure knowing you're going to also and that's going to be a huge fight huge chunk of unmistakable quoted and i wrote two novels a world war to pearl harbor and days of infamy from december seventh nineteen forty one to victory over japan in august of nineteen forty five this forty four months ago and three years and eight months mobile was fifteen at nine people in uniform rebuild the b twenty four b twenty nine the seventeen we build into ocean at the build for cities in

twenty nine facilities for them and for the atomic bomb we put the pentagon in eighteen months we sweep across north africa to sicily italy france luxembourg holland belgium germany while simultaneously sweeping across the pacific you know i'm forty four months in recently took twenty three years to head a fifth runway the leonard that's absurd eighty years after nine eleven we still will not rebuild the world trade center and world war two we will rebuild it in eighteen months using exactly the same plans to build exactly the same buildings to save your enemies you cannot knock us down were back with a difference and so that requires very fundamental rethinking about who we are awarded five in national security

we are un substantial danger there were substantial danger because we refused to be honest about how complicated and how hard this is going to be one of the reasons that though fortune steve and i decided right to try men's souls was we were sitting around here half of those are you know people are worried about the economy they're really worried about foreign majors clearly worried about the congressman white house and they need to have an example of america one are back was to the war and we did what it took and that particular day christmas day seventy seventy six is one of the most extraordinary war the most wrote in american history to start with honesty washington and been beaten awful needy had thirty thousand men in brooklyn they were almost wiped out by the british and they only get across the east river because huge fog a man and a little of the royal navy which was

sitting the block and couldn't see them and so they really had robots will get across the river thirty thousand or since it was a miracle and then driven from manhattan they're driven from white plains driven from power so is this effort to a humiliating defeats where thousands of men surrender the driven across new jersey by mid december they've shrunk from thirty thousand to twenty five thousand and as i said earlier one third twenty five hundred don't have boots now washington who has as sophisticated a student of democracy freedom and leadership as anybody right they understood that for a free society to succeed you have to marry the pen and the sword and we had a great pamphleteer thomas paine who had written common sense which is the best description of the declaration of the names widely read very popular and

pain was serving as a rifleman and was onto him and said i don't need to use a rifle a major write another panther because we're all the press to warrant and someone has to explain to us why are we doing this why we're going through this cain agonizes couple months can't quite figure finally one has the inspiration goes to vote and it begins these are the times are trying themselves the sunshine patriot and the social order annie talks are being down to the last hard core member less than one of every thousand americans still in washington was less than one hundred thousand and he explains the victory over tyranny like victory over how it's

horrible but the fight will be difficult the opening couple parents are magnificent and we recount the opening chapter at the back of a novel washington thought so highly of it but when the men were boarding the boats that momentum going into a night crossing of a river with ice in the middle of a snowstorm in order to march nine miles at night when i see one paved road in order to surprise a professional german unit which they're going to force to surrender sleeping when a decisive victory in this was pretty daring stuff and as they get aboard the boats washington has the officers read to them from payne's new campaign his watch understands that a free people has to understand what they're doing an enormous courage once they understand it's right and what's a sense of the world now sharing that with you because we are now in arguably

the thirtieth year of a difficult struggle at a minimum were in the eighth you're reading this fundamentally wrong with that there's a book called guess to the actual by mark baum wrote black hawk down was a great reporter and where black hawk down became a movie about somalia and he actually went to somalia to interview somalis blood and guest hurtle was about the iranians taking over the american embassy in nineteen seventy nine which was totally legal fundamentally against international law and they held hostages reform in forty four days which was totally legal the subtitle about his book is iran's first shots in the war against america and i would argue that the nineteen eighty three killing of the marines in baghdad the bombing a crowbar towers the bombing of the two embassies in east africa the bombing in new york and washington and the downing of the

airplane in near pittsburgh that this is all a continuum as a continuum which as i said we recently arrested people in denver detroit in new york and you know we can even talk honestly about this we don't have a thomas paine because of thomas paine wrote the truth would be so politically correct me to really drive them out of the public life so ask yourself what's the one common characteristic of the people it is picked up in new york detroit and then it just all the characteristics what's the one common factors they're all muslims and they're all committed no no there's no confusion were the two leading centres of paying people were out a distress that saudi arabia

which funds the sunni version and iran which forms the shivered how its pluses and a percent the question really no rational seriously doubts so what's our strategy and a national energy policy which is bowing to the saudi king utterly irrational than a great country thirty years into a conflict like this one are being have a totally energy free policy won't produce enough american energy we laugh at them and we ignored that we don't because we can even talk about as a country we will go where the fact that you have two fundamentally different friends' faces with a very real threat of an immediate danger from people one of the stories i had a long term threat of chinese civilization rapidly building such momentum in science and technology that we're not competitive lose all the advantages we've had less than seventy years so the

chinese for it requires us to rethink our own education system or industrial base our tax policy to recognize that we don't rebuild our capacity compete we will not be leaving country the world can have a competitor with two trillion dollars of your bonds i mean that's a letter to close to a close for who you think has greater impact right now the chinese central bank or the federal reserve now the chinese can lower tuesdays at an education are two trillion dollars return to the dollar would collapse that day in frustration over thirty percent but this is the scale with that i think about it so we need a national conversation could release be honest about your opponents are in and hears were trapped and this is while having this conversation with you know i am grateful to have those digital indie coming we're setting or you over afghanistan which is like arguing over la canal leave

uganda fried the number of them said you know we need a serious national they weren't the world were to like to focus in and walk in he said i'm fighting a global war on one of the nazi germany france has an interview can walk on out is a skirmish in the war to describe afghanistan without having a grand national strategy without being described honestly your opponents are without being a lay out what the campaign is and it doesn't have to be military both both anomaly on ronald reagan and a new movie were making wine on pope john paul the second visiting poland and i consider them both cases were just reading one of the great strategy of history which is overwhelmingly non violent as a priest who's being the death or a handful of people were killed as demonstrators and poland on rivals because the polish people refuse to be conquered by the state czechoslovakia unravels romania unravels

ukraine on rambles the selenium disappears and christmas day nineteen ninety one so appropriate gift to the human race but was a fundamentally by the berlin wall comes down with no violence but at least it was a grand strategy may remember reagan is at a time when everybody in the weeds believe the soviet union was powerful it was inevitable it was dangerous you have to do it carefully where jimmy carter was basically trying to appease the moderators asked our reporter what's your vision a cold war uses four words the changes we win they lose much like you're ok you the time we win would resonate there's a mango united nations where we wish you went on the scene they're than they should lose your all of you understand this clinician sports like there's a weird a patient lives and why they came to visit dr wen is silly you want to become aggressive moves into much

redder party after the game if they lose so why don't they cooperated right now this is the heart of the american mob ok the second part i buy get a paper in a speech at the amount of presents about you know twenty fifth anniversary of the evil empire speech and the strategic defense <unk> only thirteen days and as fast as he is example red shirted to compare it with the total absence this is a bipartisan problem is as much a bush promises album from the total absence of grand strategic thinking in the last eight years in both parties now the speech i gave was that was designed over to our one isn't in march over two thousand eight what's were you trying to accomplish and why these visas are very densely if you go back and we know they're astonishingly full details as reagan believe that he was actually not a great communicator is a great educator he wanted people to understand the world he understood

and he wanted to share with them the facts he understood so that they would actually be preparing their own to reach the same conclusion because they had the facts not because they believed him so users which is an enormous shock here here is a true story about religion they knew they would have an enormous fight to get the state department and the national security council to ever approve using attorney volunteer some is pretty strong language so they picked a speech to evangelical preachers in florida golden as a political speech the first is there is a speech is really dull when i got over the national security council and will get through the speech to win certainly got the masters because they want to sell a political speech florida evangelical ministers not our problem they gave it to an injury you

already have we lose a zillion dollar they get to florida reagan throws away the first two thirds of speech which were not designed to be read that they were designed to get through the bureaucracy and this week he actually gives is just devastating there's a great moment when a movie made time sharansky who at the time was a prisoner's in the gulag in siberia and sharansky said he later became that is really commission's rule dubey says probably not religious or seven evil empire that they thought they had entered and horse to answer then displayed senate he said the morning they printed reagan says evil empire terrible speeches over a warmonger reagan they said the morale of the guards collapsed because it was the first time a western politician had told the truth about the soviet

empire and the more our prisoners rose so dramatically that they were actually sending morse code messages to prisoners who were in solitary confinement for everybody's morale go up because of america's a western leader if i told the truth at some point you won lessons or so has turned what it's like totally russia's invasion of success is repaired to follow a vision or we don't have a national security and a reagan in nineteen sixty seven as governor went to berlin him throwing on the water is only going to tear down nineteen eighty seven is joe baca but now he's won the presidency he's been reelected in a landslide there a speech which goes over the state but it has one very famous sons mr gorbachev tear down this wall the state department takes about because they don't often comes back to whiteness reagan writes of backing it

goes back or the state department they take it back out secretary george show some of the stories it goes back unless it's a call three says georgie you need to explain to your speech are high and the president he is not it stays in now the nervous person or willpower to reach down in the bureaucracy and say you know i want the entire world to know that from we when they lose to the evil empire to tear down this wall there's a continuity of pressure it is i want to be morally break people in nineteen eighty thought he was crazy but christmas of nineteen ninety one the soviet union disappeared for we needed a national security the grand national strategy that is honest

about our opponents clear about the threats and outlines a coherent strategy meaning those words if we're going to be safe and her children grandchildren the safe haven for those is real question how do we create jobs and what do you do while protecting american's allies win world stage when they toss opened for questions a common sense of some fun and ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ah ok so does anybody want to ask a question so rolling like an approaching here's a role in my cup here and i didn't hear the war diplomacy and in your presentation how does that fit into your three ideas that diplomacy is why at the diplomacy threats in many ways i remember this country was founded in part because brilliant deployment site

adams franklin were able to convince the french to support a woman's the dutch tulip health finances only a brokenness the spanish to swear so i think that many thais an american tradition and while diplomacy are we have sustained through the cold war and enormous worldwide diplomatic system which we should continue to sustain the great achievement over communism was a large part of a diplomatic psychological economic victory was a military victory ago the military was to block the soviets from attacking long enough for them to collapse and then the goal of diplomacy was to surround them with opportunities and if you look at the continuing pressure that we brought together was entirely diplomat now in dealing with china for example inevitable much better diplomatic system so that a us trade representative can be as clever as aggressive as the chinese economy are trying to exploit the various opportunities the world trade organization and if we want the chinese to be engaged in a

world rating system where to another be very very good at negotiating at least as good as they are so i think diplomacy is ramp or not i'm probably the only conservative in the country who has been actively say we need a much bigger state department budget we need a much more professional foreign service nears substantially bigger capital investment and communications for the state department and we have to have a state department which is capable of operating at a tempo and headache achievement level which is totally unattainable davis economic modeling state department says it made this is an institution which is under funded under trained under equipped and i think that the diplomacy is a very significant part of this and i think that's a great question then i knew i'd like to get your advice on a local issue and that's the third congressional district and as you may know in two thousand to that district was redesigned which makes it very difficult for a republican went to win these days and just wanted to get you your input

on how they brush you have on that my love having having helped create the georgia republican party at a time when you know gerrymandering thinkers was very difficult for republicans everywhere and so it's a pill women wear eurozone fell on my first devices the warrant the german wherever people bob mcdonnell had over forty meetings with asian americans over a hundred meetings of hispanic americans had a very active campaign with african americans out campaigned in the suburbs of northern virginia a way that no republican in history ever done he carried the largest county in the state which is a fairly liberal county it carried all sorts of groups that no republican ever carried it is so cozy one out of that message and you know i have the third district of running next summer a nation that has too many unemployed people a nation that isn't growing economically a nation with a massive deficit a major nation faced with

huge tax increases and a nation that has a series of policies though be relatively unpopular for seven year eighty percent of people the district and relax i would consciously try to build a very broad campaign went when i read for the first time and i was a republican in georgia running during watergate which was actually pretty rational then it was i as edina delegation who was the fourth ranking member of the appropriations committee and people guessing you can't win in the right ah i have forty five forty in a half percent below the reasons i got forty eight have which was enough to survive one is they are forty and have presented as we said from day one we don't concede that my opponent his immediate family campaigning everywhere well give you a real true life example were out campaigning around labor day i get this phone call it turned out his next door neighbor had been a bitter property disputes and hated him and his neighbors said i want the

largest yard signs have now ha because i want him to have to drive home past your name every night and i learned to see at first thing when he leaves every morning now i had a very inexpensive campaign that year we raised twenty five thousand dollars as a college teacher no real money what it was a really bad time to raise money as republicans so when someone out back and they we have some plywood and we painted this huge silence for waivers and only took over there and put it and now i don't know that i got as many votes were raised the morale a party so much and the news media covered because it was so strange and surely carried the votes that particular hassle so we're splitting his home and what i think if you forget all this below me about a base mobilization and three are cleverly with a voter if you decide

you're going to compete for every possible vote in the third district the lesson of last night is in new jersey and in virginia you maybe shock week we had four democratic congressional district of virginia where the republican who took out a gap between fifty nine and sixty five percent now those four democrats today and buttery thinking really hard about whether or not they will propose is gigantic socialized medicine and i have a hunch that they're all sort of you know this may not be very clever and how disabled reply opportunities and next year for the third district his idol with kansas river right to vote with san francisco at the prices you might be shocked at how many votes are available if you if you go after all of them and don't assume any of my not available way in the back from all the unknown people in the other room i lived in germany for a number of years as well as their it i developed this idea that america has certain policies and in politics to make sure

that the fuel food commodities are affordable that we buy from other countries but there are also affordable for everybody else for example europe which didn't invest any money into making it affordable so they have all those extra money they can spend on government which allows him to create a socialist world that is repackaged and sold to us and in a roundabout way us doing oh what for us is in our best interest comes back to haunt the spreading socialism dropped on her doorstep as a perfect utopian model of how do we get it you avoid doing something for yourself and having come back to bite you well for sawgrass of us a very interesting analytical base which is not not totally accurate as a visit and the two leaders' all i mean you're all at a center for second we came out of the second world war with fifty percent of the world's economy because everyone else and bob

ms to tell people number one reason we don't approve of being competitive in nineteen forty six as we had bomb toyota mercedes and so it's not a strategy you can use random him is not enough to get over and figure out our unity all the while they're still other factors and as it's probably funny was probably will so when you look at the great generation which fought world war one study and prepare for world war two fought world war two and then created the framework for the cold war is all the same people they were operating from basis such an enormous relative wealth that we could be just stunningly generous and we were the marshall plan was generous and human history no surprise exactly right thing to do that well now in a different world now actually i think they're there to partially said not clauses that that's the thing about being a professor of mine

i really urge all of you that if you get a chance to read a book by claire berlin city her last name is the city of berlin sky clare berlin's he's an american novelist she lives in istanbul but she was a grad student at cambridge when thatcher was damaged the book is called when margaret thatcher matters what he says is that thatcher when she became a leader of the opposition it is only five came to the conclusion that socialism is an ideology and the coal miner union power as sheer brute power system were destroying report and that of great britain was going to survive you have to be prepared to break sociology to break the whole concept of socialism as an ideology and you had referred to break the organizational power the coal miners and that this should be the equivalent of a cultural war and genuine listener by nine one of his mom a nineteen seventy nine thatcher had

become a warrior and that the normal politician in nineteen seventy five had thought so deeply and so profoundly what will be needed that she was prepared to take the beating will be involved there is no doubt that she fundamentally changed forever it is a different country today there was a night of severe as a much more productive country a much wealthier country the place to see this is a second book by sarkozy are called testimony and before he ran for president of france sarkozy the soviet the nation will change and that awkwardness of my book will change and so he wrote this book and he says in the book before a session the french economy was twenty five percent bigger than the british economy today is just this in the two thousand seven the british economy's ten percent bigger than the french economy and four hundred thousand french men women work in london there's even a better living you can press and he

says to a terrorist if you want us to build a pay your pension and you are still sustain your health care you had better favor economic growth is we don't grow economically we're not going to be my it's a very profound but it was a startling look for french politician to reagan i share with you because i believe the three questions i ask you are as profound as that if you believe as i do that we are endowed by our creator the seminal riot and that every one of us has an obligation to be responsible citizens to pursue happiness to be honest about two plus two equals four to insist on policies that are transparent accountable and honest you're a different world than if you think politics is about a secular socialist bureaucracy taking care of his mother country because and is it finally out of that if you believe as

i do that the key to shining is not to hide the kitchen and is to figure out what we need to do to get our act together so our children grandchildren of the best educated best prepared have the best equipment and of the mossad world and you're very different ways that you think the real job we have is to avoid reality probably king institutions and pay off the bureaucracies unit that uncle are you fine if you think there are real threats to us threats that could fundamentally change or civilization by the pain that would cause then we have to design a grand national strategy with devon on this national conversation and we as a free people have to make the commitments that we will sustain so that our children grandchildren are free i'm an optimist we've done this now for over two hundred years were

actually pre don't get it and i suspect a generation from now will be doing just fine thank you over and if you've been listening to former speaker of the house newt gingrich the georgia republican was first elected to congress in nineteen seventy eight but rose to prominence in nineteen eighty four when he co authored the republican contract with america that contract is widely credited with republican victories in the nineteen ninety four midterm elections when republicans took control of the house for the first time since the nineteen fifties and gingrich was elected their speaker in nineteen ninety five time magazine named gingrich their man of the year gingrich spoke at the dole institute of politics at the university of kansas on november fourth two thousand nine as the inaugural robert j gold distinguished visiting fellow recording for today's event like a pr statehouse bureau chief stephen koranda and j mcintyre katie our presence is a production of kansas public radio at the university of kansas

why are we transfix on the state's rights where is the outrage identified with harry truman for many reasons the pundits always told him during his first time that he was sent the law an educated boy good to take an individual to educate a girl with to take a community from presidents well it's at our president as a way to listen in on some of the most interesting speakers come to northeast an essential camp says i'm gay macintyre joins me every sunday night for kansas public radio jenny needham