Comments and quotes from the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFjM1ZzZSE8 Why is the controlled media so scared of Ron Paul? ” free falling music”
Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger. - RP March 25, 2004
Let it be clearly understood - there is no authority to wage war against Iraq without Congress passing a Declaration of War ... a UN Resolution authorizing an invastion of Iraq, even if it were to come, cannot replace the legal process for the United States going to war as precisely defined in the Constitution... only tyrants can take a nation to war without the consent of the people. The planned war against Iraq without a Declaration of War is illegal. It is unwise because of many unforeseen consequences that are likely to result... The American people become less secure when we risk a major conflict driven by commercial interests. Victory under these circumstances is always elusive, and unitended consequences are inevitable.” - March 1, 2002
The tired assertion that America “supports democracy” in the Middle East is increasingly transparent. It was false 50 years ago, when we supported and funded the hated Shah of Iran to prevent nationalization of Iranian oil ... and it’s false today when we back an unelected military dictator in Pakistan - just to name two examples. - Dec 3, 2002
“biggest incentive for them to take over is for us to leave”
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
The official national debt figure, now approaching $9 trillion, reflects only what the federal government owes in current debts on money already borrowed... it does not reflect what the federal government has promised to pay millions of Americans in entitlement benefits down the road... Those future obligations put our real debt figure at roughtly 50 trillion dollars - a staggering sum that is about as large as the total household net worth of the entire United States... Your share of this 50 trillion amounts to about $175,000 - March 6, 2007
If present trends continue, by 2040 the entire federal budget will be consumed by Social Security and Medicare alone... to close the long-term entitlement gap, the U.S. economy would have to grow by double digits every year for the next 75 years. - March 6, 2007
Immigration reform should start with improving our border protection... yet it was reported last week that the federal government has approved the recruitment of 120 of our best trained Border Patrol agents to go to Iraq to train Iraqis hwo to better defend their borders... National guard troops participating in Operation Jump Start are being removed from border protection duties in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas and prepareing to deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan... is this a way to discourage people from coming to the Us illlegaly? - May 31, 2007
=== start brian quote Dr. Ron Paul, what is the most pressing moral issue in the United States right now?
I think it is the acceptance, just recently, that we now promote preemptive war. I do not believe that’s part of the American tradition. We in the past we have always declared war in the defense of our liberties or to go to aid somebody but now we have accepted the principle of preemptive war. Wed have rejected the just war theory of Christianity. And now, tonight, we hear that we are not even willing to remove, from the table, a preemptive nuclear strike against the country that has done no harm to us directly. And is no threat to our national security. I mean we have to come to our senses about this issue of war and preemption and go back to traditions and the constitution and defend our liberties and defend our rights - but not to think that we can change the world by force of arms and to start wars.
We subcome to the temptation to protect oil interests by literally going out and fighting wars over oil.
We have a lot of goodness in this country and we should promote it, but never through the barrel of a gun, we should to do it by setting good standards, motivating people, and having them want to emulate us but you can’t enforce our goodness like the neo-cons preach with an armed force. It doesn’t work. Woodrow Wilson was telling us about that in promoting democracy a long time ago it doesn’t work and we have to admit it. === end brian quote
Military force is justified only in self-defense; naked aggression is the province of dictators and rogue states. This is the danger of a new “preemptive first strike” doctrine. - Sept 4, 2002
- 7:00 nice quote about church and state, should be at the local level because the federal govt does not have perfect knowledge
Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states “accountable” for their education performance... in the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats. - March 23, 2001
- 7:20 gays in the military, we get our rights from our creator as individuals (not as a group minority)
Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views of humans strictly as members of groups rather than as individuals... by encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called “diversity” actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial gropu identity is inherently racist... we should understand that racism will endure until we stop thinking in terms of groups and begin thinking in terms of individual liberty. - April 18, 2007
A humble foreign policy, no nation building, don’t police the world... the purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and privacy of all individuals, and not the secrecy of government. ==bkw
The federal government has no right to treat all Americans as criminals by spying on their relationships with their doctors, employers, or bankers. - May 22, 2001
Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy. - July 10, 2003