Mark Neumann: “We talked about daring to dream. We talked about my personal life where we reached a point that we could not pay our…”

“We talked about daring to dream. We talked about my personal life where we reached a point that we could not pay our bills, where we started a business and turned it into something. We talked about starting the home building business and suffering through years where we lost money, and turning that company around and getting to the point where we were building 120 homes a year and providing 250 job opportunities. And daring to dream that in the United States of America, even if you have no political background, that in this great Nation that we live in, where if you want to run for office you can run for office, and we ran twice and lost, but we had a dream that it could still happen. We got elected and came in here with a very specific dream. We came in here in 1995 and we dared to dream that we could balance our budget before the turn of the century and quit spending our kids' money. We dared to dream that we could make payments on the Federal debt and start paying this thing down, so instead of our kids getting a legacy of huge debts and interest payments, that we could actually start paying down the debt and maybe give our country to our children debt-free.”