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she is a leader like clare boothe luce preus beautiful persuasive and principled. for standing up and defending all that makes our nation unique and special week like to get you the special award the clare boothe luce policy institute's 2009 leadership award with grateful thanks. [applause] >> while, thank you very much, michele and it is an honor for me to be here and to see so many young people in the audience. i did bring my daughter, elizabeth, with me. we believe in the cheney family cannot start politics or fly-fishing too early and i am proud to say elizabeth accomplished both pursuits and is also here today because she got to leave school early so we should make note of that but it's special for me to be honored by the clare boothe luce policy institute and i have many years followed the work the institute does and i think there's nothing more important any group can do and mentor young people particularly focusing on young women. as meshaal mentioned i've worked the past many years issues relating to the middle east and had a chance to spend time with youn

like our organizations namesake, clare boothe luce, ms. cheney is a very accomplished woman an expert in the area of foreign affairs and especially middle eastern affairs. she has one other important role on a resume. she is also a wife and mother of five children, one of whom is with us today. liz cheney has all the qualities that make great conservative women. by standing so firmly, you inspire all conservatives to be more courageous and feisty and not to back off when we know we are right, but it might be easier to back down. many liberals do all they can to silence women like her. at the clare boothe luce policy institute, we are eager to honor leaders like liz chaney. so we want to recognize her today. she is a leader, like clare boothe luce, beautiful, persuasive, and principal. for standing up and defending all that makes our nation unique and special, we would like to give you this special award, the 2009 leadership award with are grateful thanks. [applause] >> thank you very much, michelle. it is a real honor for me to be here and

i'm a summer intern with the clare boothe luce policy institute. our next speaker is a syndicated columnist, political commentator and acclaimed author. she's been married for almost 25 years and is the proud mother of three children. she served as the heritage foundation -- is currently their senior communications fell low. she has worked in public relations for the septemberer for judicial studies and director of communication of concerned women for america. she also found her own consult will business and was vice-president of communications at well net daily.com. she's been a strong conservative voice for many years advocating a pro-family message and challenging a molly bankrupt society. she's written two books on the the very subject "home invasion, protecting your family in a culture gone stark raving mad" and 38 ways to save your family." it's already made the "washington post's" best seller list. in 2007 the clare boothe luce policy institute named her one of the great 12 american conservative women and she was featured in the institute's

. >> hello, my i attend amherst college and i i'm a intern with the clare boothe luce policy institute. our next speaker is a political commentator and acclaimed author. she's been married for almost 25 years and is a proud mother of three children. she's served as the heritage foundation vice president of communications and marketing and is currently their senior communications fellow. she's worked in public relations for center of conservative studies for concerned women in america. she formed her own consulting business and was vice president of communications at world net daily.com. she's been a strong conservative voice for many years advocating a profamily message and challenging our morally bankrupt society. she's written two books on the very subject, home invasion, proceeding your family and culture that's gone stark raving mad and 30 ways in 30 days to save your family. it's made "the washington post" bestseller list. the clare boothe luce policy institute named her one of the top conservative women and she was featured in the institute's annual calendar. her safeguarding of

camille, come up here. >> on behalf of the clare booth luce policy institute we want to thank you for not writing this book for women and for being a strong conservative woman leader that we can all look up to and so we have our clare boothe luce mug which on the back has a quote from her that says "no good deed goes unpunished." >> wonderful. we can have our cup of coffee together and drink that. >> we also have our pretty and me and has pictures of some great conservative women leaders. >> thank you so much. [applause] >> and from the heritage foundation, i would like to give a quote it does not take a majority to prevail but an i-rite tireless minority keen of setting the brush fires of society in the minds of men. >> i love this. >> thank you so much. god bless you. thank you, ladies, and gentleman and we are adjourned. [inaudible conversations] >> republican marsha blackburn is currently serving her fourth term representing tennessee's seventh district. prior to that, she served in the tennessee state senate. for more information on congresswoman marsha blackburn, author of "life

she is a leader like clare boothe luce policy institute, beautiful, persuasive and principal. for standing up and defend what makes our nation special, we would like to give you this special award, a n e clare boothe luce policy institute 2009 leadership award. .. daughter, elizabeth, with me. we believe in the chaney family that you can never start either politics or fly fishing too early. [laughter] >> and i'm proud to say elizabeth is accomplished at both pursuits and she's also here today because she got to leave school early. we should make note of that. but it really is very special for me to be honored by the clare boothe luce institute. i think there's nothing more important than to mentor young people and particularly focusing on young women. as michelle mentioned i've worked for the past many years on issues relating to the middle east and have had the chance to spend time with young women in the middle east and i always come away so inspired by their dedication by their desire to change the future and to bring their nations into the 21st century and i think you all

i know because of the efforts of clare boothe luce that conservative women will play a significant role in shaping our movement in the future. now, at every event at which i speak, young women come up to me afterwards and they ask, how i got involved in the conservative movement but what they really want to know is how i got involved, why i got involved but how i was able to do it and still be a mom. i have four children of my own. but these women, in fact, just on friday there's a young america's foundation event, i see a lot of familiar faces here with folks that are there. women came up to me afterwards and asked that question again. it was the first question i got asked. how do you do it and still be a mom? so i want to try to answer that guy and you guys will have to sit here and listening to it and you will guys will be impact and it has impact on you just just listened. i'm here because my father inspired me. when i was very young he inspired me to believe with something with my whole heart and whole being and then work for it without ceasing. for him that was freedom. it was in

i'm a heritage foundation intern and a former clare booth luce intern. what do you think in your career is your biggest success and -- but also what is your biggest failure? >> i think that -- and that's a great question and i appreciate that you would ask that. i think probably the greatest success would be relationships and primarily relationships with my family. and making certain that those are all in order before you begin to step forward. failures, you know, i think that -- i look at many of those as being challenges. and they were opportunities because you're always going to have doors that gets slammed in your face. so you have to begin to compartmentalize that. we're all going to get -- when you have things you can let it become a failure or you can let it become a learning opportunity. and the way you address that is how you're going to be able to assess it. now, we've all had elections that we've lost or a business project that was not as fruitful as we would have wanted to, but did we learn from that or not? or we've all had people that have

but at the clare boothe luce policy institute, we are eager on