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Pataki for President 2016
Pataki for President
"Pataki for President 2016"
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4:08 video from May 28, 2015.
[Music]
Pataki: America has a big decision to make,
about who we're going to be and what we're going to stand for.
The system is broken. The question
is no longer about what our government should do, but what we should do
about our government, about our divided union, about our uncertain
future.
We are founded on a miracle, a heroic
past, built on courage, on inventors' visionaries of heroes, a
God-given belief in the nobility of the human spirit, and the fact that
liberty is the only way for that spirit to thrive.
Washington has grown too big, too
powerful, too expensive and too intrusive.
This is exactly what the Founding Fathers
feared. They knew all governments have the tendency to grow
endlessly and ultimately to take power from the people and give it to
themselves, the politicians.
It is time to stand up, protect our
freedom, and take back this government.
I was a Republican governor in a very
deep blue state, the state of New York, and I was governor for three
terms. And it's because at the end people realize...my vision was
not a partisan division; it was a vision about people, about what we
could accomplish together.
When I got elected mayor, the last thing
in the world I thought about is some day I could be governor of New
York State. I was this unknown person from Peekskill; not exactly
Manhattan or New York City.
If you care about people, you don't have
to be governor, you don't have to be president, you don't have to be a
U.S. Senator to try to impact their lives.
(Clip
from
New
Hampshire-The
American
Legion): We can pass all the
??laws in the world, have all the rules and regulation, but unless we
have men and women like you, prepared to risk your lives to defend this
country, they don't mean anything. God Bless you all, and lunch
is on me.
We have always understood that we have a
common background and a common destiny, and when we stand together we
can accomplish anything. I saw that on the streets of New York in
the days and weeks after September 11th. We understood we were
all Americans who had been attacked and were going to rise up together,
and we did.
We need to recapture that spirit, that
sense that we are one people. When we do, we will stop empowering
politicians and empower ourselves with the opportunities to have an
unlimited bright future.
TEXT: We The People
We the people, not Washington, are
equipped to lead this nation. We the people can make a
difference. We the people are what make this nation great.
(Clip
from
New
Hampshire-Wild
Irish
Breakfast): When we stand
together, Americans can accomplish anything. [applause]
TEXT:
As Governor of New York, George Pataki led during the worst terrorist
attack the US had seen on American soil.
His leadership inspired people of
all backgrounds, factions, and beliefs to come together and work
towards a better America.
We are all in this together. And
let us understand that what unites us is so much more important than
what might seem superficially to divide us.
If we are to flourish as a people, we
have to fall in love with America again.
TEXT: United We Stand
TEXT: What Will We The People Stand For?
[Music ...extended note]
Logo. georgepataki.com
(Clip
from
Tower
4, Overlooking Freedom Tower): I've been up in that
tower. That's
exactly what we hoped, you know that we would not just rebuild what was
here, but build higher and taller and soar to new heights and show
people we weren't going to this small or live afraid, and it really
does what we wanted it to do, which is to reclaim the skyline and stand
out as a symbol of coming back not just as strong, but stronger and
better.
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Notes: This video is rather
woolly and would have benefited from more structure and tighter editing.