Ron Paul’s Speech in East Grand Rapids
Last weekend, Ron Paul attended a small meet and great in East Grand Rapids hosted by the Kent County GOP.
Ron Paul: Thank you. It is good to be here. Back at home in Texas, it would be a smaller backyard, and also we wouldn’t be standing outside. Out there this time of the year [...]
Ron Paul’s Opening Statement: The Federal Reserve Created the Crisis
Event: House Financial Services Committee Hearing
Date: July 21, 2009
Transcript
Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, Chairman Bernanke. The Federal Reserve in collaboration with the giant banks has created the greatest financial crisis the world has ever seen. The foolish notion that unlimited amounts of money and credit created out of thin air can provide [...]
Ron Paul to Congress: You want to protect consumers? Try honest money.
Venue: House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology
Hearing: Regulatory Restructuring: Safeguarding Consumer Protection and the Role of the Federal Reserve
Date: 7/16/2009
Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank you for holding these hearings because I think they’re very important and the subject, Consumer Protection and the Role of the Federal [...]
Ron Paul calls for Federal Reserve Audit at the Cato Institute
“Why in the world should this much power be given to a Federal Reserve that has the authority to create $1 trillion secretly?” Ron Paul asked a standing room-only crowd today at the Cato Institute.
Paul was on a panel of speakers, including Gilbert Schwartz, former associate general counsel to the Federal Reserve, to discuss a [...]
Ron Paul: Leave Iran Alone!
This Friday, June 19, Ron Paul was the only member of the House to back President Obama on Iran by voting against HR 560, a resolution authored by Rep. Howard Berman (D–CA 28) and Rep. Mike Pence (R–IN 6) which condemns the Iranian government for its recent actions. The text of the resolution follows:
RESOLUTION
Expressing [...]
Ron Paul Opposes Supplemental Appropriations Act
On June 15, Ron Paul gave the following speech in opposition to HR 2346, a $106 billion war funding bill, which was later passed 226-202.
Ron Paul: Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this conference report on the War Supplemental Appropriations. I wonder what happened to all of my colleagues who said they were [...]
An Empire Beyond Its Prime: Opposing the Ridiculous “Foreign Relations Authorization Act”
Ron Paul opposes the Foreign Relations Authorization Act (HR 2410 – full text) which “authorizes appropriations for the Department of State and the Peace Corps for fiscal years 2010 and 2011, modernizes the Foreign Service, authorizes democratic, economic, and social development assistance for Pakistan, authorizes security assistance for Pakistan,” and funds other undemocratic and militaristic [...]
Ron Paul: Let the people decide on tobacco usage
Date: 6/12/2009
Ron Paul: Thank you, Madame Speaker. I don’t think anybody can argue at all with the intentions of the proposal of this bill. There’s no question that cigarettes are very, very harmful. The question for me here is the process and I find the process here atrocious because it assumes that authoritarianism is right [...]
Ron Paul: We have failed to recognize the true cause of the crisis.
Date: 6/3/2009
Transcript
Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in the last few years in interviews on the economy I have been asked what I would do if I were in charge. In answering the question I usually started with explaining the errors we made that gave us the crisis.
The interviewer frequently responded by [...]
Statement on Global Warming Petition Signed by 31,478 Scientists
Before the US House of Representatives, June 4, 2009
Ron Paul: Madam Speaker, before voting on the “cap-and-trade” legislation, my colleagues should consider the views expressed in the following petition that has been signed by 31,478 American scientists:
“We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in [...]
Ron Paul: Is this reality or just a bad dream?
Location: Congress
Date: 05/19/2009
Transcript
Ron Paul: The title to my special order tonight is ‘Current Conditions or Just a Bad Dream’.
Could it all be a bad dream or a nightmare? Is it my imagination or have we lost our minds?
It’s surreal, it’s just not believable.
A grand absurdity, a great deception, a delusion of momentous proportions [...]
Ron Paul Opposes $96.7 Billion War Spending & Pandemic Flu Supplemental Bill
Date: 5/14/2009
Bill: HR 2346
Transcript
Ron Paul: I thank you, Madam Speaker. Today we passed the supplemental bill, and I’m deeply disappointed about that. I was disappointed also that I wasn’t able to get any time to enter into the debate because the time was rather limited and it was a closed rule. But I did want [...]
