If Ottawa Giveth, Then Ottawa Can Taketh

Having Hit A Wall, The Next Logical Step Is Not To Bang Our Heads Against It.

I Intend To Lead My Party, Which Is The Only Party That Has A Serious Policy On The No. 1 Priority Of The People And That Is The Economy.

We're Not Going To Scrap The Budget And Make Up Some Totally New Platform The Day After The Election. So It's Certainly Willingness To Compromise But We're Not Going Back On The Fundamental Things We're Running On In This Campaign.

We Have To Remember We're In A Global Economy. The Purpose Of Fiscal Stimulus Is Not Simply To Sustain Activity In Our National Economies, But To Help The Global Economy As Well, And That's Why It's So Critical That Measures In Those Packages Avoid Anything That Smacks Of Protectionism.

The Time Has Come To Recognize That The U.s. Will Continue To Exercise Unprecedented Power In A World Where International Rules Are Still Unreliable And Where Security And Advancing Of The Free Democratic Order Still Depend Significantly On The Possession And Use Of Military Might.