00:00Ready?
00:01Ready?
00:02Ready?
00:03Ready!
00:28As speaker, Kevin understood that wielding a slim majority is not for the faint of
00:33heart. Getting hundreds of unruly colleagues together to row in the same direction can
00:39take a small miracle every day. And he pulled it off, and he learned quickly that building
00:45consensus takes hard work and drive and determination. Nobody had more of that than
00:49Kevin McCarthy. Perhaps most crucially, it takes an innate sense of optimism, tireless,
00:58doggedly determined optimism. Kevin possessed all those qualities in spades, and
01:02he is the tireless, happy warrior. When you sit up where the speaker stands and you look out and
01:10you think less than 12,000 people have ever had the privilege to serve. It doesn't matter where
01:17you came from, but you were given that privilege. It's not a perfect nation. We strive to be a more
01:25perfect nation. And I've watched all these improvements. So we put the mace up there
01:30and the mace down in the chair. That is in pictures taken from the ceremonial office, looking out
01:38at the mall, through the mall.
01:41Thank you very much.
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