Ron Paul
Ron Paul
Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paulis an American author, physician, and former politician. He served as the U.S. Representative for Texas' 14th and 22nd congressional districts. He represented the 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977 and from 1979 to 1985, and then represented the 14th congressional district, which included Galveston, from 1997 to 2013. On three occasions, he sought the presidency of the United States: as the Libertarian Party nominee in 1988 and as a candidate in the Republican primaries of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 August 1935
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
They broke the mold when they decided to do music. If bookstores have coffee, then why can't a coffee store sell books and movies?
The greatest threat facing America today is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government, marked by shameless deficit spending and Federal Reserve currency devaluation. It is this one-two punch-- Congress spending more than it can tax or borrow, and the Fed printing money to make up the difference-- that threatens to impoverish us by further destroying the value of our dollars.
Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.
There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.
Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea.
I have my shortcomings. But the message, it has no shortcomings. The message of Liberty is what America is all about.
Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.
I want to be president mainly for what I don't want to do: I don't want to run your life, I don't want to run the economy, and I don't want to police the world.
The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.
Even if you don't like guns and don't want to own them, you benefit from those who do.
Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape our fellow citizens. We must come to imagine liberty again, and believe that it can be a reality. We must recapture what it means to be free.
While President Obama was starting and expanding unconstitutiona l wars overseas, Bradley Manning, whose actions have caused exactly zero deaths, was shining light on the truth behind these wars.
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.
I'm an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect.