Kevin Roberts

Thanks for having me.

Thanks for everything you're doing to help make this America's golden age.

We've been around 52 years, 53 years now this year, and what we do is focus on public policy problems.

First of all, in the 1970s and 80s at the federal level, but increasingly, especially over the last four or five years since I've been president, also at the state level, all for the purposes of devolving power from Washington and giving it back to the states and to the people.

But the thing that made us unique in the 1980s, Patrick, was that we didn't just write white papers, which is the typical work of a think tank.

I don't even use the word think tank to describe Heritage, although I think we do the best thinking in the business.

We're a public policy advocacy organization because the purpose of our research is

is then to walk across the street, go to Capitol Hill, and advocate for that research to help draft legislation.

We also have an issues campaign arm called Heritage Action that is able to do, under federal law, more of that advocacy work.

They do our lobbying on Capitol Hill on behalf of the American people.

The other thing that we do that a lot of Americans don't pay attention to, which is okay, is that we help to connect the conservative movement around the world.

We're very active in the Far East.

in Europe, in Latin America, increasingly in Africa, all for the purpose of restoring self-governance.

And so while we are nonpartisan, we are unabashedly philosophically conservative.

And we believe that not only is a smaller government good, but the reason that a smaller government is good is because it gives you and me and all

330 million Americans, more self-governance.

That's the reason that Heritage exists.

I think I know where you're going.

Gosh, it's a heck of a lot harder.

Okay.