CPAC 2021- How the Bill of Rights Inspires Us at Home and Across the World

Thank you for that warm greeting. It's always a blessing and a little bit unnerving to have your son at the podium Look, I look out here and and I see you all You're really at home And thank you for that last year Last year I came here as America's 70th Secretary of State President Trump's Secretary of State and before that And before that I was here as a member of Congress in South Central, Kansas. Yeah go, Kansas But this is different I'm different in the last few months we've been called clowns and deplorables and ignorant rednecks We've been called the evil resistance the New York Times think I'm the worst Secretary of State of all time Yeah Yeah, since I last saw you the Chinese have sanctioned me the Iranians don't think so much of me either But but I'm proud of our fight and I'm proud of our accomplishments and that we have truly Upended the status quo We've we've demonstrate demonstrated enormous resistance with this socialism to the woke cancel culture. I'll talk some about that We resisted seeing our liberty and our freedoms flipping away, this is a noble worthy fight and we're in it we We fought hard We fought for it hard on nearly every front and we will always fight for it. I Want to tell a little story I think I come by this disruption and shooting straight very naturally and in the Pompeo family I've been compared to my grandpa. His name was Earl Earl Mercer Now grandpa Earl always said what was on his mind. He was pretty rough cut He worked hard. He never won a mr. Congeniality contests even in Mitchell County But when the going was tough you wanted grandpa Earl around In the 1930s Grandpa Earl was the sheriff of Mitchell County, Kansas population day a little bit less than 6,500 My mother Dorothy was one of Earl's and Grace's ten kids. I had an uncle Richard. He was the last of the lot and he was gonna run for re-election as sheriff and Richard decided that you know, there was good money. It was really good money in homemade gin So, uh, so he built a still in the basement bedroom everything was good both the campaign and the bootleg business all good Until it still exploded in the basement. It blew up the basement and the campaign Grandpa Earl was a one-term sheriff in Mitchell County He moved his family to a little further south where he raised my mother in Wellington where he opened a pool hall How's that for going from sheriff to the pool hall operator best Chilean, Kansas? I Tell the story because I think there's a couple things that we those of us who believe those of us who've been part of the Conservative movement for so long and learn from this first He was a great sheriff and he was regarded as us because he never tried to be anything He wasn't he was never afraid to tell people the truth He did what the people of Mitchell County expected of him. He respected them second the lesson from the gin problem is The plans change things happen. We don't always see it going exactly the way we want, but we should never give up We should always be true to ourselves and we will succeed at all of it if we do Gramp grandpa Earl knew to that facts mattered So today I'm gonna arm you with some facts some accomplishments from these past four years And we've protected every one of you and our great Bill of Rights at every turn And what's good news today for me is when you're a diplomat when you're 70 a Secretary of State, you know You have to stay in your lane. I Don't have that. I'm not a diplomat. I'm gonna let it rip So look where'd we begin we began with you we began with workers all across America we put back to work We put back to work women. We put back to get African Americans Asians Hispanics Everyone everyone was back working. We did that President Trump did that our team? understood that this matter We focused on the economy that put Americans back to work We did it by also securing our borders giving Americans the chance to make a good wage And a chance to take care of their families And we also Yeah, we built American energy jobs, too We rolled back regulations on job credits and we wanted everyone to take risk and grow their business and create opportunity for people all across America I I heard this time and time again. I remember I ran for Congress in 2010 when President Obama was in office Employers and workers had both lost confidence. We restored that confidence. They knew we had their back We knew we'd support them not burden them. We wanted them to be successful we were The hallmark of our work here in America was that we were bold and fearless And when I hear today, I hear Democrats pretend they care about jobs in America But before the seats were warm in the Oval Office, they destroyed 10,000 jobs in a pipeline you know and I see to my predecessors predecessor John Kerry Right, he thinks these folks are all gonna go make solar panels Tell you what, you ask the good people of Midland, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, South Dakota, Pennsylvania You think petroleum engineers and rig hands are gonna go out and make solar panels? No, and you can bet this do those cheap shiny solar panels to start flooding into America like you have not seen This won't be good for the United States of America Don't get me wrong. Sometimes we get accused say we don't care about the environment. We create jobs That destroy the environment. That's just not true. We didn't simply didn't do it to protect the environment on the backs of American workers There were more job openings and people looking for work for much of these past four years. It was an amazing accomplishment And and when the Chinese wanted to come steal your job, we just said no way 40 years bipartisan Democrat and Republican 40 years of failure Letting made in China crush us It's gonna stop We demanded fair and reciprocal trade Never forget to China depends more for us than we do on them President Trump understood that our foreign policy understood that we protected the American worker worker from the Chinese Communist Party's predation On us here in America Now my job often took me overseas we protected our freedom abroad We kind of did it like grandpa Earl did we were honest hard-working Treated the world as it is not as we wished it were or could live in fantasy land I will tell you I walked out of some very quiet room in Europe We we had a restrained foreign policy, but when the time came when the situation so required we let We came hard. We came heavy. I sent messages repeatedly the bad guys around the world that You touch an American you'll pay dearly now Now we all know We all know this strength strength deters bad guys weakness begets war. We want to stay out of wars. We did I Was with the president so many trips and he would tell his counterparts across the world He would say look I'm gonna put America first as president United States and I expect you will put your country and your people first and we'll work together and Accomplish this for both of our countries and we did that you know America first is right for America It's right for each of us America first secures our freedom and the entire world benefits when America is fearless and bold and strong We just tick through a few ways, right? So first we show up Paris Climate Accord Was a job-destroying joke. So we said our walk Look we all we all want clean air safe drinking water But the Paris Agreement was a fantasy for elite diplomats who just wanted to virtue signal and when President Biden reentered this deal I can tell you that Xi Jinping was smiling every single minute the American workers lost We too spent a lot of time. We defended America in the Middle East and defended Israel in the Middle East, too We were told a number of things, right? This was what establishment foreign policy But it says we were told that you can't sanction the Ayatollah in Iran And you can't stop sending pallets of gas to the leadership. There'll be a war Well, we did and there wasn't a war We were told we were told you can't move the United States Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. There'll be a war Well, we did and there was not a war We were told we were told you can't allow Israel to have its rights in Judea and Samaria and the Golan Heights though They'll be war We did that we righted that and there was no war We told We were told and this was believed for a long time said you can't secure peace in the region in the Middle East between Arab Nations in Israel without buying off Palestinian kleptocrats, you'll create World War three But we did the Abraham Accords forged a real peace in the Middle East You know Thank you You know The Abraham Accords rewrote decades of failed shuttle negotiations because we're willing to go against the elites of the foreign policy established But left and right to secure American freedom and and to champion your values It's unfortunate looks like the new team team Biden appears to be headed back into appeasing Iran. This will be a disaster For the United States of America and a disaster for the region as well. Yeah, I Remember to President Trump sent me to Pyongyang when I was a CIA director Meet with Chairman Kim to prepare for the historic summit that was ultimately held in Singapore You all remember this we threatened fire and fury The threatened fire and fury not to go to war but to deter it deterred and deter it we did You know since those summits since those two summits one in Singapore one in Hanoi The North Koreans haven't tested a long-range ballistic missile They haven't tested their nuclear weapons exactly zero tests have been conducted. That's real foreign policy. I was It was humbling too because on the second trip I had the chance to bring home American hostages three men at three o'clock in the morning And America first America first always means never forgetting about our warriors There was no greater honor to than the fact that we brought back other Americans like pastor Brunson who stayed in Turkey Detained wrongfully for just far too long And we brought back so many remains of our fallen in Korea as well. This was amazing and right and America first How many of you remember Qasem Soleimani? I'll arrest his soul This was the Iranian General who was trying to cause trouble for America. He was on a mission To harm Americans, but we were a few steps ahead of him So in the end, he didn't cause trouble for Americans or anyone else ever again Do you know? Do you know that? Do you know? that to Do you know that to this day? Most of the liberals and most of the folks on T bite still won't acknowledge that ridding world of an America hitting terrorists was a good Thing this is this is fantasy But we we too we drew a red line When the Syrians gassed children and women We told them don't do that again. And when they crossed it President Trump ordered 70-plus beautiful American made tomahawk missiles to let them know that we weren't gonna allow them to kill women and children America first America first takes real courage Next Secretary of State willing to walk into a room and tell it like it is and a president who have his back We had that Speaking of backs Speaking of backs. I hear I hear president Biden saying America's back Back to what? So I act a pallet back to pallets of cash to the ayatollah so he can build missiles that threaten us Back to apologizing when Iranians tell our soldiers sailors to take to their knees at gunpoint back to President Biden no one pipeline America respect to Supporting a pipeline in Europe that'll create European jobs. This is this is not where we want to go back to any anytime at all We certainly don't want to go back. They're letting China have trade deals to kill our jobs right here in America We can't afford it It's not the right thing and we don't have to do it. We must be bold and we must always put America first You know, we spent a lot of time talking about being canceled I was really happy that This was being this is being aired on television not canceled at least for the moment We we worked tirelessly with great success to deliver on our values American values that have made this such a special unique nation This country was built on what our founders understood and then the Bill of Rights that came behind that Constitution They built a nation recognizing that our rights come from our creator and not from any government Our Union becomes our Union becomes more perfect every time we defend our sovereignty and we defend our borders And I'm proud that we were the most pro-life administration in the history of the United States of America it was It was it was my job to deny that any Taxpayer dollars from any hard-working America ever went to perform abortion any place in the world and we promoted adoption everywhere and always and don't forget to President Trump appointed an awful lot of judges that understand the words life and liberty and that words that have real real meaning. I Worked for the Mexican government my counterpart for mr. Mexico and president to secure our borders We worked hard to to make sure the drugs and other things didn't traffic across that border that meant to protecting your right Firearms our Second Amendment matters Communities those strong families and it makes sure each of us has the right to defend ourselves precisely as our founders intended I'm always done. I was like liberals pretend to care about the poor and then Against the workers they they pretend to stand for children while kids Well kids in Democrat led inner cities aren't in front of computers like they think they are They're struggling to figure out how to stay safe from drug lords and how to get a meal. That's that's not good leadership It's not America first leadership. It's not taking care of those people. You're charged with protecting And we need to get every one of our children back in school and we need to get him back in now. I Was I was a soldier about? 30 years ago and about a hundred pounds ago, too And when I hear Democrats say they want a strong America, I know that they are working to undermine it Sadly mark my word. They're gonna gut the defense budget that we worked so hard to build They'll do it to pay for their Green New Deal kind of makes me mad right they're gonna trade army green for AOC green That is a bad bad trade And as I said before Our young men and women you don't want to put them in harm's way We don't want them to go to war, but when we're weak at home and we don't stand up for our military Risk of war increases when deterrence fades. We cannot let that happen They want to defund the police while they barricade the Capitol. This is backwards and canceling our freedom to assemble peacefully while censoring our communications online is Antithetical what our founders understood about America No, uh, it reminds me When I headed off to West Point My parents could afford to fly to New York. I grew up in Southern, California So they left me at the airport. My mother was happy and all kinds of feelings It was a my mother was a cigarette smoking high school graduate who was a decent most decent and toughest woman I've ever met She said Mike she pulled me aside, I think she didn't want my dad to hear that she said Mike Michael I know you're grinder Don't ever let them wear you down wear them down I've I've never forgotten what my mom told me that day. We'll all remember it Keep grinding keep championing American values One more story smartest best the officer that I ever came to know Worked closely with Mr. Former Army's Air Force special operations officer I'd asked him about someone who was working on our team and I'd say what do you think? What do you think of him or what do you think of her and he'd say love that guy pipe hitter You know what? He meant he meant that person got stuff done They're a grinder they kept banging away You all know these four years are gonna test us. I Need each of you to be a pipe hitter Get stuff done. Keep grinding be a pipe hitter Be a pipe hitter Be a pipe hitter at church Right be a pipe hitter at church be a pipe hitter at your PTA meeting. Don't let him bring crazy into your classroom Be a pipe hitter at your VFW Lead the team to continue to support our military warriors Be a pipe hitter Be a pipe hitter when they tell you they're closing the mine or the factory because of some green vision It's open President Reagan a real pipe hitter There's a ring got stuff done and he once said if we lose freedom here We lose freedom here. There is no place to escape. This is the last stand on earth Saw that Saw that as your Secretary of State as I traveled all around the world And I'm confident that he was right. I am confident that the American star will shine across the heavens So long as we keep proper understanding of our God-given rights the center of who we are And we keep up our quest to secure our freedom for our own people and for all of mankind I'll be with you in the fight. God bless you and may God bless the United States of America You