"Until the [first Republican] debate, a national audience had never heard me. Now they are starting to hear me, and I don’t think they’ll forget."
![](http://images.csmonitor.com/csmarchives/2011/05/0521cain3_1.jpg?alias=standard_900x600nc)
Jim Cole/AP Photo
Republican presidential hopeful and businessman Herman Cain speaks during a dinner sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, Friday, April 29, 2011 in Manchester, N.H.