The Clinton Gore administration has squandered America s strength and purpose in the world, causing low morale in a military that is underpaid, undersupplied and overdeployed. In stark contrast, I have a reform agenda to increase pay, expand research and development and rebuild the best hope for peace and freedom in our world and that hope is the strong military might and steady peaceful purpose of the United States of America. In stark contrast, I know the surplus is not the government s money, it s the people s money. I have a reform agenda to cut taxes not for the favored or the few or the targeted but for every family and every individual who pays taxes in our country. And I want to usher in the responsibility era in America.
Responsibility begins with leaders who are responsible.
I will make sure when American parents and their children look to the White House they will see not an embarrassment, but an example they can be proud of. Tonight, in South Carolina, we have ignited our cause and united our party. We ignited a record turnout a huge outpouring of Republicans from all parts of our party. We reached out to independents and conservative Democrats who embraced our principles. We have ignited young voters, who turned out in large numbers to support my optimistic vision for America.