Top 100 Quotes About Ron Paul
#1. Ron Paul's crazy talk about the Federal Reserve makes more sense these days. Right now, every - all this debt issued by the United States people assume the Chinese are buying, no they don't want any more American debt. Ron Paul has a point there.
Mark Steyn
#2. It seriously irks me when people mistake Ron Paul for a libertarian. The man is as much a libertarian as Barack Obama is a liberal.
Michel Templet
#3. I am not Dr. Ron Paul. I am not Dr. Ron Paul, Jr. I am not Dr. Ron Paul Lite.
Randy Weber
#4. The Republican Party under Genghis Bush did the devil's work. Bar the sainted Ron Paul, not a dog of a Republican lifted his leg in protest of the unjust war on Iraq.
Ilana Mercer
#5. Between Ron Paul and Rick Perry, I think the lesson is don't get sick in Texas.
Bill Maher
#6. Today, Snoop Dog endorsed Ron Paul for president. Snoop said he likes Paul's positions on everything from legalizing pot ... to legalizing pot.
Conan O'Brien
#7. Ron Paul, who, as someone said, wouldn't have regulated a sewer pipe running through his child's playroom.
Jane Smiley
#9. Ron Paul warned everyone that the Patriot Act could be used against innocent American citizens. His critics said he was siding with terrorists. Now, either A. Ron Paul was right. Or B. All Verizon users are terrorists.
Jack Hunter
#10. I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.
Newt Gingrich
#11. I'm worried that the government might kill Edward Snowden with a drone.
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
#12. Ron Paul's revolution isn't a fluke. It's the future.
Gary Johnson
#13. Ron Paul may be the wackiest candidate in the GOP field. But for pure, blind stupidity, nobody beats Santorum. In my 20 years in the Senate, I never met a dumber member, which he reminded me of today.
Rick Santorum
#14. I go where the revolution is, and the revolution is Ron Paul. Ron Paul is a champion of the Constitution. He's about getting rid of the Federal Reserve and shrinking federal government.
Christine Ebersole
#15. At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
Gary Johnson
#16. Here's the path to sobriety: Play the Ron Paul drinking game. Watch CNN and take a drink every time someone says his name.
Doug Stanhope
#17. I learned that the problems that we have are not solved by blaming somebody else, and that our hope is not in who governs us as a nation. It's not in Mitt Romney or Barack Obama or Ron Paul. Our hope is in the power of God and his gospel working in the hearts of people.
Kirk Cameron
#19. I have been a Ron Paul 'R3VOLutionary' longer than most 'R3VOLutionaries' have been alive!
Scott Boman
#20. There was a big difference between Ron Paul and me when it came to the 'no.' His 'no' was philosophical. It was reasoned. It was right. My 'no' actually put a stop to legislation. It cut spending. Mine carried further than just no.
Gary Johnson
#21. Truth be told, except for foreign policy, Ron Paul's voting record and mine are virtually identical and I wear it as a badge of honor.
Paul Broun
#22. No true patriot could be for Ron Paul.
Dick Morris
#23. Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet.
Charles Krauthammer
#24. Ron Paul is in favor of letting states legalize marijuana, prostitution, and cocaine. So even if he doesn't win, that's going to be one heck of an election night party.
Jay Leno
#26. The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.
Ron Paul
#27. But, no matter how big or small dictators are, they all accept 100 percent the principle that granting government authority to manipulate our lives and control our property is legitimate and morally acceptable.
Ron Paul
#28. When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
Ron Paul
#29. What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'
Ron Paul
#30. In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.
Ron Paul
#31. People should not be able to vote to take away the rights of others.
Ron Paul
#32. Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every human being, old and young, rich and poor, regardless of gender, color, race, or creed. We must reject the initiation of violence by individuals or government as morally repugnant.
Ron Paul
#33. Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.
Ron Paul
#34. Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.
Ron Paul
#35. Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power.
Ron Paul
#36. A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come.
Ron Paul
#37. [Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they will run the country if elected. The problem is that government is not supposed to run the country - we're supposed to be free.
Ron Paul
#38. It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot
Ron Paul
#39. The cost in terms of liberties lost and the unnecessary exposure to terrorism are difficult to determine, but in time it will become apparent to all of us that foreign interventionism is of no benefit to American citizens, but is instead a threat to our liberties.
Ron Paul
#40. Is it any more moral to dilute the value of the purchasing power of the money you hold in your wallet than it is for the farmer to dilute the milk supply with water?
Ron Paul
#41. Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.
Ron Paul
#42. If global warming is because of weather changes - which a lot of people believe - there's not much we can do to change the weather pattern.
Ron Paul
#43. The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.
Ron Paul
#44. To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.
Ron Paul
#45. [the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service, ... and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at] delivering ... service.
Ron Paul
#46. The law cannot make a wicked person virtuous ... God's grace alone can accomplish such a thing.
Ron Paul
#47. The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally biased against Christianity.
Ron Paul
#48. I'd like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade.
Ron Paul
#49. When we finally decide that drug prohibition has been no more successful than alcohol prohibition, the drug dealers will disappear.
Ron Paul
#50. Privacy IS freedom. Leave us alone!
Ron Paul
#51. When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.
Ron Paul
#52. The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.
Ron Paul
#53. May future generations look back on our work
and say that these were men and women who,
in a moment of great crisis,
stood up to their politicians,
the opinion-makers, and the establishment,
and saved their country.
Ron Paul
#54. American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington.
Ron Paul
#55. Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.
Ron Paul
#56. I see this piece of legislation as essentially being a declaration of virtual war. It is giving the President tremendous powers to pursue war efforts against a sovereign nation ... I think it is another example of a flawed foreign policy that we have followed for a good many decades.
Ron Paul
#57. This much is true: you have been lied to.
Ron Paul
#58. Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
Nancy Gibbs
#59. It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control.
Ron Paul
#60. All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power,
Ron Paul
#61. 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.
Ron Paul
#62. I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me.
Ron Suskind
#63. Never voted to spend one penny of Social Security money.
Ron Paul
#64. Everyone who believes in freedom must work diligently for sound money, fully redeemable. Nothing else is compatible with the humanitarian goals of peace and prosperity.
Ron Paul
#65. When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
Ron Paul
#66. I hope every person who reads or hears this will take the time to go back and read the Declaration of Independence. Only by recapturing the spirit of independence can we ensure our government never resembles the one from which the American States declared their separation.
Ron Paul
#67. Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.
Ron Paul
#68. I'm all for raw milk. I think you should make your own choice on whether you drink raw milk or not.
Ron Paul
#69. The state cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man.
Ron Paul
#70. But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.
Ron Paul
#71. Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.
Ron Paul
#72. As long as we live beyond our means, we are destined to live beneath our means.
Ron Paul
#73. Amend Constitution to remove aliens' birthright citizenship.
Ron Paul
#74. We don't think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That's true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.
Ron Paul
#75. Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.
Ron Paul
#76. Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
Ron Paul
#77. Why is it that some people, you know, think we should obey the Constitution sometimes and not other times.
Ron Paul
#78. Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.
Ron Paul
#79. Only liberty can truly ward off tyranny, the great and eternal foe of mankind.
Ron Paul
#80. I'm an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect.
Ron Paul
#81. The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George ... Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security.
Ron Paul
#82. Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?
Ron Paul
#83. I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
Ron Paul
#84. Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.
Ron Paul
#85. The World's Smallest Political Quiz is responsible for many Americans' first contact with libertarian ideas. While traveling around the country, I have often heard people say, 'I never knew I was a libertarian until I took the Quiz!'
Ron Paul
#86. I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.
Ron Paul
#87. I don't want to run your life, I don't know how to run your life, I don't have the authority to run your life, and the Constitution doesn't permit me to run your life.
Ron Paul
#88. If you ever can bring about revolutionary changes,
two things would be required:
young people would have to be involved
and you would need music.
Ron Paul
#89. I never would force the Justice Department to go to California and arrest people getting medical marijuana, when that's the law there.
Ron Paul
#90. If economy were good, there'd be no immigration problem.
Ron Paul
#91. Once created, federal programs are nearly impossible to eliminate.
Ron Paul
#92. The only thing we should prohibit is violence.
Ron Paul
#93. Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.
Ron Paul
#94. Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it.
Ron Paul
#95. It's amazing that people don't understand that the more the market is involved and the smaller the government, the lower the price, the better the distribution, and the higher the quality.
Ron Paul
#96. You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
Ron Paul
#97. After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making mistakes. I no longer trust the U.S. government to invoke and carry out a death sentence under any conditions.
Ron Paul
#98. I would say nobody is perfect. I don't know all the answers. I have don't want to run people's lives and run the world and run the economy. So, my qualifications are a little bit different.
Ron Paul
#99. Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.
Ron Paul
#100. They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.
Ron Paul
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