My Remarks to the Denver Tea Party

I am here because I still believe in America.

No matter what some have begun to think, America is not a government with a people who support it.

America is a free people with a government of, for and by its people.

So let me say a few words about the people, that will help explain my optimistic outlook.

Every American I know prefers to work hard and enjoy the fruits of their labor. They know that the government cannot give something to someone without first taking it away from someone else.

And just about every American I know has a greater belief that all great change in America starts at the dinner table, and not in the halls of government.

And more and more, people are beginning to remember why Ronald Reagan -- whose high view of freedom, whose right view of America’s goodness, whose devotion to human dignity, whose drive to give away government power to the little man, whose tireless efforts to reduce the size of government, whose love for the United States military and state’s rights and a secure country – PEOPLE ARE BEGINNING TO REMEMBER WHY HE WAS SO RIGHT AND SO GREAT FOR OUR COUNTRY.

They are beginning to remember that he was right when he said that the Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in three short phrases:

If it moves, tax it,
If it keeps moving, regulate it,
And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

And Americans are beginning to remember that he was right when he said that the government is like a baby:

An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Friends, we are the Americans I’m speaking about. We are the reason I remain optimistic about the world our children and grandchildren are going to inherit.

But just like the Patriots of old who sparked a freedom movement by dumping that tea into the Boston Harbor, that was just the starting point.

The finish line is this: we don’t rest until we are confident that our freedoms are secure.

That means we need to help the government types that are getting drunk on our children’s money, find new jobs next year. It means we have to apply steady pressure on all of our elected officials, steady pressure by reminding them that they work for us – it’s not the other way around.

If you will take up that charge, say Aye!

I’ll take it up with you. And it’s for the great cause that is America herself that we’ll do it, together.

God bless you, our great state, and the greatest country on earth, the United States of America.