House Proceeding 05-05-09 on May 5th, 2009 :: 4:07:00 to 4:11:05
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Bob Inglis: ourselves to a government that hasn't always deserved our confidence and i yield to the gentleman. . inging these are exceptional people that you just listed that believed in some very

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Speech By: Bob Inglis

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Bob Inglis: exceptional ideas. conservatives are people who are conservative by personality. we want to keep things together. where they are. but -- appear then also conservative philosophically, as in wants to have things like free markets and things like that. but it's also true that at times, conservatives are people who really do want very bold

4:07:43 to 4:08:04( Edit History Discussion )

Bob Inglis: change, bold strokes, not just keep it the way it is. we really want to change things. and so tho folks you were just mentioning were very bold in believing some pretty, pretty audacious things like we hold these truths to be self-evident. in other words, they're not going to make any further

4:08:05 to 4:08:25( Edit History Discussion )

Bob Inglis: explanation of it. we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienble rights. that is was a bow dashese thick to -- bow -- bodacious thing to say.

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Bob Inglis: you could say that the conservative personality thing was to continue to believe in the divine right of kings. but here were these upstarts in the colonies who said, no, listen, we have studied the laws of nature and of nature's god, as mr. jefferson said in that document, and we document a different conclusion -- we come to a different conclusion and

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Bob Inglis: then he stated the conclusion. that we hold these truths to be self-evident. and i think it's very exciting just to see how bold they were. now, fast forward that to where we are today and i think we have a big challenge. the big challenge today is that our pollsters tell us that f the first time in a highly or

4:09:10 to 4:09:30( Edit History Discussion )

Bob Inglis: maybe in our lifetimes, people don't believe that their children will be better off than they have been. i think that's worth examining, figuring out why that is. because when we started this wonderful adventure here in the united states in 1776, with those incredible words of change

4:09:31 to 4:09:52( Edit History Discussion )

Bob Inglis: and of things being self-evident, we carried really that on. that was sort of our heritage. as tom friedman writes, america is a country that's young enough and brash enough to believe that every problem has a solution. much of the world has long ago left that nation -- noshe but they need us, the americans, to believe that every problem has a solution and i would submit that

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Bob Inglis: it comes from the d.n.a. we developein 1776 when we said, all men are created equal. hello. that's not what the rest of the world thought. and we're endowed by these certain inalienble rights. that carries through to the

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Bob Inglis: thought that, yeah, by sacrifice today, or my -- putting my kids through college or whatever it is, can create for them a better standard of livi than mine. which i think is something that has driven this country to its economic success and it seems to

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Bob Inglis: me it's tied in with that d.n.a., that political understanding, and that comes as the gentleman from california was saying earlier, really from so it really is all connected to a series of very big thoughts in america that gets us to the place now of a big challenge which is do we believe that our children will be better off than we are?

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Bob Inglis: and unfortunately a good number of our citizens, fellow citizens, think not. and i think it's worth asking, why is that? and what can we do to convince