2016 Bakersfield Business Conference: The day they all came to Bakersfield

Arizona Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio packed the "Political" tent. On being an elected official: "Isn't it nice I don't have to report to anybody but the people. Never give up the constitutional role of the elected sheriff." The book tent sold his famous pink undershorts that he provides for inmates.

The three surprise guests speaking at the end of the day were Americans who had performed heroic acts.

Wearing his Congressional Medal of Honor, Leroy Petry, Army Ranger who grabbed a grenade in Afghanistan in 2008 while he was wounded, saving two other soldiers and losing his hand. He wears a prosthetic hand. After being wounded, he declined to take a disability retirement and requested to serve another deployment in Afghanistan, his seventh to there and Iraq. "The country is thriving and doing better.," he told the media. "The civilians say 'We wish you could stay.' We explained 'We have our own families.'" He said the military is doing amazing things with prosthetics. "I encourage everyone not to slow down on ADA (Americans with Disabilities) access."

An attendee speaks to Army Special Forces Capt. Dan Quinn (Ret), who, in 2011, responded to the plea of a mother in an Afghan village whose 14-year-old son was chained to a bed and was being sexually abused by an Afghan police commander. "She understood what that (American) flag meant," Quinn said. He and a sergeant confronted the Afghan policeman, who laughed at them. The two Americans used physical force to convince him not to continue his abuse. He left and never came back. American military authories punished Quinn with a general reprimand (using hands against a local partner force), ordering other American military personnel not to interfere with the Afghan culture. Quinn, whose administrative punishment would prevent him from ever being promoted, reluctantly left the military. For Quinn, stopping a child rapist was a moral imperative. "In morally deplorable cases, Americans have every right to impose our culture," He said the support he has received from his comrades and civilians "is enough for me." The third surprise guest was Capt. Richard Phillips, whose ship MV Maersk Alabama was captured by Somali pirates in 2009. His rescue by Seal Team Six was the subject of a film starring Tom Hanks as Phillips.

Entrepreneur Earvin "Magic" Johnson, the main business speaker: "I had to get rid of the 'dumb jock syndrome.'" He told how he has developed enterprises. "Know what your competitors are doing."

Laura Ingraham: "The press won't love you in the morning..."

Opening speaker Vicki Lawrence made everyone laugh.

Dr. Ben Carson: "America is inhabited by people who aren't perfect. I hate political correctness."

Herman Cain. "Too much legislation, regulation, taxation. Fight back!"