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Al-awlaki Was Born Here, He Is An American Citizen. He Was Never Tried Or Charged For Any Crimes. No One Knows If He Killed Anybody. We Know He Might Have Been Associated With The Underwear Bomber. But If The American People Accept This Blindly And Casually That We Now Have An Accepted Practice Of The President Assassinating People Who He Thinks Are Bad Guys, I Think It's Sad.

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Al-awlaki Was Born Here,

Ron Paul

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Al-awlaki Was Born Here, He Is An American Citizen. He Was Never Tried Or Charged For Any Crimes. No One Knows If He Killed Anybody. We Know He Might Have Been Associated With The Underwear Bomber. But If The American People Accept This Blindly And Casually That We Now Have An Accepted Practice Of The President Assassinating People Who He Thinks Are Bad Guys, I Think It's Sad.

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No Matter What Politicians Promise, Social Security Reform Will Not Change The Fact That Your Money Is Taken From Your Paycheck And Sent To Washington, Where It Will Be Spent.

Sanctions Are Not Diplomacy. They Are A Precursor To War And An Embarrassment To A Country That Pays Lip Service To Free Trade.

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We In The Congress Have A Moral And Constitutional Obligation To Protect The Value Of The Dollar And To Understand Why It Is So Important To The Economy That A Central Bank Not Be Given The Unbelievable Power Of Inflating A Currency At Will And Pretending That It Knows How To Fine-tune An Economy Through This Counterfeit System Of Money.

The Fourth Amendment Is Clear; We Should Be Secure In Our Persons, Houses, Papers, And Effects, And All Warrants Must Have Probable Cause. Today The Government Operates Largely In Secret, While Seeking To Know Everything About Our Private Lives - Without Probable Cause And Without A Warrant.

The American People Are Sick And Tired Of Washington And The People Who Have Been In Charge Have Been Passing All These Bills And I've Been Voting No All Of The Time And Vote No On These Appropriation Bills.

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We Should Have A Strong President. Strong Enough To Resist The Temptation Of Taking Power That A President Shouldn't Have.

With The Exception Of The Military Industrial Complex, We All Want A More Peaceful World.

What We Need To Do Is Not Only Live Within Our Means, But Start Paying Down The Deficit, And Offer An Opportunity At Least For The Next Generation To Get Out.

Because Gold Is Honest Money It Is Disliked By Dishonest Men.

I Think A Submarine Is A Very Worthwhile Weapon. I Believe We Can Defend Ourselves With Submarines And All Our Troops Back At Home. This Whole Idea That We Have To Be In 130 Countries And 900 Bases... Is An Old-fashioned Idea.

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We Have A Greater Responsibility To Act Than Those Who Live In Ignorance. Once You Become Knowledgeable, You Have An Obligation To Do Something About It.

When It Comes To The Environment And Global Warming From Emissions, It Has To Be Dealt With In One Of Two Ways - Preemptive Regulations, Which I Don't Agree With, Or With Private Property Principles. Nobody Has The Right To Pollute Their Neighbors' Air Or Water Or Land.

The Founders Warned That A Free Society Depends On A Virtuous And Moral People. The Current Crisis Reflects That Their Concerns Were Justified.

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Spain Has Been Massively Diverting Capital From The Private Sector Into Politically Favored Environmental Projects For The Better Part Of A Decade...every Green Job Created, Eliminated 2.2 Real Jobs And Cost Around $800,000 Each!

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As Long As We Live Beyond Our Means, We Are Destined To Live Beneath Our Means.

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If Economy Were Good, There'd Be No Immigration Problem.

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For Those Who Have Asked, I Freely Confess That Jesus Christ Is My Personal Savior, And That I Seek His Guidance In All That I Do.

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If It's Not Accepted That Big Government, Fiat Money, Ignoring Liberty, Central Economic Planning, Welfarism, And Warfarism Caused Our Crisis, We Can Expect A Continuous And Dangerous March Toward Corporatism And Even Fascism With Even More Loss Of Our Liberties.

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All Initiation Of Force Is A Violation Of Someone Else's Rights, Whether Initiated By An Individual Or The State, For The Benefit Of An Individual Or Group Of Individuals, Even If It's Supposed To Be For The Benefit Of Another Individual Or Group Of Individuals.

Israeli Government & The Neocons Want Us To Bomb Iran.

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The True Patriot Is Motivated By A Sense Of Responsibility And Out Of Self-interest For Himself, His Family, And The Future Of His Country To Resist Government Abuse Of Power. He Rejects The Notion That Patriotism Means Obedience To The State.

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Unconstitutional

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I Have My Shortcomings. But The Message, It Has No Shortcomings. The Message Of Liberty Is What America Is All About.

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Everybody Complains About Pork, But Members Of Congress Keep Spending Because Voters Do Not Throw Them Out Of Office For Doing So. The Rotten System In Congress Will Change Only When The American People Change Their Beliefs About The Proper Role Of Government In Our Society. Too Many Members Of Congress Believe They Can Solve All Economic Problems, Cure All Social Ills, And Bring About Worldwide Peace And Prosperity Simply By Creating New Federal Programs. We Must Reject Unlimited Government And Reassert The Constitutional Rule Of Law If We Hope To Halt The Spending Orgy.

Remember, Politicians Get Votes By Promising Everything To Everyone, Always At The Expense Of Some Other Invisible Taxpayers.

The President And Other Government Officials Denounce School Violence, Yet Still Advocate For Endless Undeclared Wars Abroad And Easy Abortion At Home. U.s. Drone Strikes Kill Thousands, But Nobody In America Holds Vigils Or Devotes Much News Coverage To Those Victims, Many Of Which Are Children, Albeit, Of A Different Color.

Cliches About Supporting The Troops Are Designed To Distract From Failed Policies, Policies Promoted By Powerful Special Interests That Benefit From War, Anything To Steer The Discussion Away From The Real Reasons The War In Iraq Will Not End Anytime Soon.

If You Give Up On Your Principles I Don’t Think That’s Being Pragmatic... Doing The Wrong Thing, Even Partially, Isn’t Being Practical...if You Have The Right Ideas And Are Forceful Enough...i Think You Can Get The Support You Need.

There Is No Such Thing As A Hate Crime.

Even If You Don't Like Guns And Don't Want To Own Them, You Benefit From Those Who Do.

It Would Help The Poor People Who Need Jobs. Minimum Wage Is A Mandate. We're Against Mandates So Why Should We Have It? It Would Be Very Beneficial.

Under The Constitution, There Was Never Meant To Be A Federal Police Force. Even An Fbi Limited Only To Investigations Was Not Accepted Until This Century. Yet Today, Fueled By The Federal Government's Misdirected War On Drugs, Radical Environmentalism, And The Aggressive Behavior Of The Nanny State, We Have Witnessed The Massive Buildup Of A Virtual Army Of Armed Regulators Prowling The States Where They Have No Legal Authority. The Sacrifice Of Individual Responsibility And The Concept Of Local Government By The Majority Of American Citizens Has Permitted The Army Of Bureaucrats To Thrive.

Prices Are Going Up. Unemployment Is Continue To Go Up. And We Have Not Had The Necessary Correction For The Financial Bubble Created By Our Federal Reserve System.

Federal Reserve

War Is Never Economically Beneficial Except For Those In Position To Profit From War Expenditures.

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.

I Think The Policy Makers Like The Idea Of Being The Boss. I Mean People Who Like To Boss Other People Around Like To Go Into Politics So They Can Become The Boss.

If You Drink Too Much, You Go Out And You Harm To Somebody, You Have To Suffer The Consequences. Same Way With Health Matters. You Don't Have The Right To Demand That Someone Else Take Care Of You Because Of Your Habits.

When Things Go Badly, Individuals Look For Scapegoats. I Just Do Not Believe That Barbed-wire Fences Or Guns On Our Border Will Solve Any Of Our Problems.

Demanding Domestic Security In Times Of War Invites Carelessness In Preserving Civil Liberties And The Right Of Privacy. Frequently The People Are Only Too Anxious For Their Freedoms To Be Sacrificed On The Altar Of Authoritarianism Thought To Be Necessary To Remain Safe And Secure.

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!'

During The Last Campaign I Knew What Was Happening. You Know, They Mocked Me For My Foreign Policy And They Laughed At My Monetary Policy. No More. No More.

I Never Would Force The Justice Department To Go To California And Arrest People Getting Medical Marijuana, When That's The Law There.

Scientifically, There's No Debate Over Whether The Fetus Is Alive And Human.

But Whether The Resistance Against Government Tyrants Is Non-violent Or Physically Violent, The Effort To Overthrow State Oppression Qualifies As True Patriotism.

Congress Remains In Total Denial As Our Liberties Are Rapidly Fading Before Our Eyes. The Process Is Propelled By Unwarranted Fear And Ignorance As To The True Meaning Of Liberty. It Is Driven By Economic Myths, Fallacies And Irrational Good Intentions.

Legitimate Use Of Violence Can Only Be That Which Is Required In Self-defense.

The Most Important Element Of A Free Society, Where Individual Rights Are Held In The Highest Esteem, Is The Rejection Of The Initiation Of Violence.

Secession Is A Deeply American Principle. This Country Was Born Through Secession.

Racism Is Simply An Ugly Form Of Collectivism, The Mindset That Views Humans Strictly As Members Of Groups Rather Than Individuals.

The Federal Reserve And Congress Have Systematically Taught The American People To Trust The Government And That Caution In Spending Is Harmful To The Economy.

I Believe Only A Free Society Can Ever Be Truly Secure. The Goal Should Be To Make Terrorists Feel Threatened, Not The American People.

Imagine If The Political Elites In Our Country Were Forced To Endure The Same Conditions At The Airport As Business Travelers, Families, Senior Citizens, And The Rest Of Us. Perhaps This Problem Could Be Quickly Resolved If Every Cabinet Secretary, Every Member Of Congress, And Every Department Head In The Obama Administration Were Forced To Submit To The Same Degrading Screening Process As The People Who Pay Their Salaries.

Why Does The U.s. Care Which Flag Will Be Hoisted On A Small Piece Of Land Thousands Of Miles Away?

What Can You Do? More And More Americans Are Carrying A Gun In The Car. An Ex-cop I Know Advises That If You Have To Use A Gun On A Youth, You Should Leave The Scene Immediately, Disposing Of The Wiped Off Gun As Soon As Possible. Such A Gun Cannot, Of Course, Be Registered To You, But One Bought Privately (through The Classifieds, For Example.)

There's Nothing Wrong With Being A Conservative And Coming Up With A Conservative Believe In Foreign Policy Where We Have A Strong National Defense And We Don't Go To War So Carelessly.

It Is Dissent From Government Policies Which Defines The True Patriot

Government Is The Enemy Of Conservatism And Freedom.

I'm An Imperfect Messenger, But The Message Is Perfect.

Right Now, Nobody Legalized Paper Money. Where Did That Come From.

I Wish I Could Say I Was Shocked At The Reports The Nsa Is Secretly Spying On The Private Phone Calls Of Millions Of Verizon Customers. However, This Is A Predictable Result Of A Government That Continues To Erode Our Liberties While Promising Some Glimmering Hope Of Security.

I Believe That Israel Is One Of Our Most Important Friends In The World.

How Did We Win The Election In The Year 2000? We Talked About A Humble Foreign Policy: No Nation-building; Don't Police The World. That's Conservative, It's Republican, It's Pro-american - It Follows The Founding Fathers. And, Besides, It Follows The Constitution.

The Only Thing We Should Prohibit Is Violence.

Stop Policing The World And We Can Get Rid Of Income Tax.

In A Free Society We're Supposed To Know The Truth. In A Society Where Truth Becomes Treason, Then We're In Big Trouble. And Now, People Who Are Revealing The Truth Are Getting Into Trouble For It.

As An O.b. Doctor Of Thirty Years, And Having Delivered 4,000 Babies, I Can Assure You Life Begins At Conception.

If People Are Smokers, Don't They Have To Pay More? Sometimes, You Get Your Insurance Cheaper If You Are A Nonsmoker. So, Let The Markets Sort This Out And Insurance Sort It Out, But Not Having Dictates By The Government Saying Thou, You Must Do This And Your Behavior Doesn't Matter, You Know?

To Me, To Be A Conservative Means To Conserve The Good Parts Of America And To Conserve Our Constitution.

I Miss The Closet. Homosexuals, Not To Speak Of The Rest Of Society, Were Far Better Off When Social Pressure Forced Them To Hide Their Activities.

Social Pressure

Mr. Speaker, I Once Again Find Myself Compelled To Vote Against The Annual Budget Resolution For A Very Simple Reason: It Makes Government Bigger.

The Freer The Market Is And The More Respect You Have For Private Property, The Better The Environment Is Protected.

Welfarism And Excessive Spending And Deficits And Socialism Divide Us, Because Everybody Has To Go To Washington. Those Who Have The Biggest Clout, Whose Who Are The Best Lobbyists, Those Who Go And They Grab. And Whether It's The Medical Industrial Complex, Or The Banking Industry, Or The Military Industrial Complex, That's Who Ends Up Controlling Our Government...

We Get Our Rights From Our Creator As Individuals. So Every Individual Should Be Treated The Same Way.

Truth Is Treason In The Empire Of Lies.

First Reason Is, It's Not Authorized In The Constitution, It's An Illegal Institution. The Second Reason, It's An Immoral Institution, Because We Have Delivered To A Secretive Body The Privilege Of Creating Money Out Of Thin Air; If You Or I Did It, We'd Be Called Counterfeiters, So Why Have We Legalized Counterfeiting? But The Economic Reasons Are Overwhelming: The Federal Reserve Is The Creature That Destroys Value.

The Government Does Not Need To Know More About What We Are Doing. We Need To Know More About What The Government Is Doing. We Should Be Thankful For Individuals Like Edward Snowden And Glenn Greenwald Who See Injustice Being Carried Out By Their Own Government And Speak Out, Despite The Risk. They Have Done A Great Service To The American People By Exposing The Truth About What Our Government Is Doing In Secret.

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.

I Have Never Been One Who Is Comfortable Talking About My Faith In The Political Arena. In Fact, The Pandering That Typically Occurs In The Election Season I Find To Be Distasteful. But For Those Who Have Asked, I Freely Confess That Jesus Christ Is My Personal Savior, And That I Seek His Guidance In All That I Do.

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.

The Founding Fathers Realized That "the Power To Tax Is The Power To Destroy," Which Is Why They Did Not Give The Federal Government The Power To Impose An Income Tax. Needless To Say, The Founders Would Be Horrified To Know That Americans Today Give More Than A Third Of Their Income To The Federal Government.

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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.

A System Of Capitalism Presumes Sound Money, Not Fiat Money Manipulated By A Central Bank. Capitalism Cherishes Voluntary Contracts And Interest Rates That Are Determined By Savings, Not Credit Creation By A Central Bank.

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.

Unlike Newt Gingrich And Rick Santorum, I Never Voted To Provide Taxpayer Funding To Planned Parenthood.

Article 1 Section 8 Of The Constitution Says Congress Has The Ability To Coin Money And Regulate The Currency And Doesn't Say Anything About Gold Or Silver.

The Last Line Of Defense In Support Of Freedom And The Constitution Consists Of The People Themselves. If The People Want To Be Free, If They Want To Lift Themselves Out From Underneath A State Apparatus That Threatens Their Liberties, Squanders Their Resources On Needless Wars, Destroys The Value Of The Dollar, And Spews Forth Endless Propaganda About How Indispensable It Is And How Lost We Would All Be Without It, There Is No Force That Can Stop Them.

When One Gets In Bed With Government, One Must Expect The Diseases It Spreads.

I Am Absolutely Convinced, You Never Have To Give Up Any Of Your Freedoms In Order To Be Secure.

We Need To Surrender Our Attachments To Government In Every Aspect Of Life. We Need To Give Up Our Dependencies On The State, Materially And Spiritually. We Should Not Look To The State To Provide Us Financially Or Psychologically. 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.

There Should Essentially Be No Limits To The Voluntary Definition Of Marriage.

This Is The Deadening Consensus That Crosses Party Lines, That Dominates Our Major Media, And That Is Strangling The Liberty And Prosperity That Were Once The Birthright Of Americans. Dissenters Who Tell Their Fellow Citizens What Is Really Going On Are Subject To Smear Campaigns That, Like Clockwork, Are Aimed At The Political Heretic. Truth Is Treason In The Empire Of Lies.

We Have Depended On Government For So Much For So Long That We As People Have Become Less Vigilant Of Our Liberties. As Long As The Government Provides Largesse For The Majority, The Special Interest Lobbyists Will Succeed In Continuing The Redistribution Of Welfare Programs That Occupies Most Of Congress's Legislative Time.

Welfare Programs

There Is No Reason, In A Free Society, That Farmers Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Raise Hemp. Hemp Is A Good Product.

There's A A Right To Privacy For All Individuals And All Who Have Legal Rights - And That Includes The Unborn. As An Obstetrician, If I Cause Any Harm To A Fetus, I Will Be Sued. If Someone Kills Or Harms A Fetus They're Liable In A Court Of Law.

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