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Newt 2012
"It's Official: Newt Gingrich is Running for President"
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2:09 web video from May 11, 2011.
[Music] Gingrich: I’m Newt Gingrich
and
I’m announcing my
candidacy for President of the United States
because I believe we can return America
to hope and opportunity, to full employment, to real security, to an
American
energy program, to a balanced budget.
I worked with President Ronald Reagan in a very difficult
period. We got jobs created again, Americans proud of America,
and the Soviet Union disappeared.
As Speaker of the House, I worked to reform welfare, balance
the budget, control spending, to cut taxes to create economic growth –
unemployment came down from 5.6% to under 4. For four years we
balanced the
budget and paid off $405 billion in debt.
We’ve done it before, we can do it again.
I want your help because no one person from the oval office
can get this done. We Americas
are going to have to talk together, work together, find solutions
together, and
insist on imposing those solutions on those who don’t want to change.
There are some people who don’t mind if America becomes
a wreck so long as they dominate the wreckage. But you and I know
better.
We owe it to our children, our grandchildren, our country
and frankly to ourselves. So let’s get together, look reality in
the
face, tell the truth, make the tough choices and get the job done.
There’s a much better American future ahead: with more
jobs, more prosperity, a better health system, longer lives, greater
independent living, in a country that is decentralized under the 10th
Amendment, with power once again back with the American people and way
from the
Washington bureaucracies.
No one person can accomplish this. It can’t be done
from the oval office. We have to work together. We
Americans have to get it
done.
I hope you will decide to join me. Let’s work side by
side. Let’s get this done for ourselves, our children and
grandchildren,
and for our country.
I hope you will come to Newt.org, see what we are trying to
get done, and to join us in getting American back on the right track.
Notes: Straightforward
direct to camera; the music track is a bit generic.