Speech at 2008 CPAC conference: on Foreign Policy
George W. Bush:
History’s verdict takes time to reveal itself
On America’s role in the world, some believe that our nation is often the cause of global turmoil--a mentality once called “Blame America First.” You and I believe that America is a leading light, a guiding star, and the greatest nation on the face of th
Earth. I’m not going to be around to see the final history written on my administration. The truth is that history’s verdict takes time to reveal itself. In the year ahead, the pundits, the so-called experts, commentator, analysts will offer more gloomy
predictions and more big government solutions. This is a group that is seldom correct but never in doubt. You and I have seen that in our own time. Reagan was called a “warmonger,” “an amiable dunce,” a movie actor detached from reality. Yet within a few
years after Reagan left office, the Berlin Wall came down, the Evil Empire collapsed, the Cold War was won. Over the years a strange thing has happened. A lot of people who spent the 1980’s criticizing Reagan now tell us they were with him all along.
Source: Speeches to 2008 Conservative Political Action Conference
Feb 7, 2008
Mike Huckabee:
Impeach judges who yield on our sovereignty
We should make sure that we never, for any circumstance, under any purpose, ever yield one ounce of our sovereignty over to some international tribunal.That’s why we need to fight against the Law of the Sea Treaty, and make sure that it gets a good
burial at sea. That’s why we should say ‘No’ to Kyoto, because it’s not giving over our sovereignty.
And it’s why whenever a judge invokes any international law as the basis for making a decision, he should be summarily impeached for having done so.
Source: Speeches to 2008 Conservative Political Action Conference
Feb 7, 2008
Mitt Romney:
Unless US changes course, we’ll no longer be superpower
We face a new generation of challenges, challenges which threaten our prosperity, our security and our future. I am convinced that unless America changes course, we will become the France of the
21st century--still a great nation, but no longer the leader of the world, no longer the superpower. And to me, that is unthinkable.America is unique in the history of the world.
In the history of the world, whenever there has been conflict, the nation that wins takes land from the nation that loses. [The US] took no land. No land from Germany, no land from Japan, no land from Korea.
America is unique in the sacrifice it has made for liberty, for itself and for freedom loving people around the world. The best ally peace has ever known, and will ever know, is a strong America.
Source: Speeches to 2008 Conservative Political Action Conference
Feb 7, 2008
Ron Paul:
Can’t spread our goodness through the barrel of a gun
Truly conservative in the sense of the words “to conserve our true values” means being serious about taking our oath of office to the Constitution. Limit the government’s size, the spending, the deficits, and the exposure around the world. If the
US is as great as I believe it should be and can be and has been, we will have influence around the world. We cannot spread our greatness and our goodness through the barrel of a gun. It fails because it destroys our goodness by doing it that way.
Source: Speeches to 2008 Conservative Political Action Conference
Feb 7, 2008
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