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Ron Paul on the Rise to Iowa

By RonPaul.com on November 23, 2011

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Neil Cavuto: You know, it might be a little too soon to rule out Ron, even though many in the mainstream media tend to keep doing so, because if these latest polls mean anything, Ron Paul is still topping in Iowa. He’s almost topping, he’s beating out Mitt Romney among the caucus-goers; more proof that Ron Paul is anything but a goner. The Republican Texas congressman, Ron Paul, is on the phone with us right now.

Congressman, it’s good to have you.

Ron Paul: Thank you, Neil, it’s nice to be with you.

Neil Cavuto: You did very well on the debate last night. By the way, on these debates, do you tire of them? I know Fox has a big one, I’ll be involved in that one, so I hope the answer is no, you don’t tire of them. But do they get to be a little grueling or what?

Ron Paul: Oh yea, sometimes you stand for a couple of hours, but maybe talk for 7 minutes. I much more prefer an interview, a serious interview where the interviewer can follow up and you can follow up and explain things. So the setting is not good, and the standing around like that is not the best way to get information out. But I don’t think there’s any other choice, I don’t think any one individual really enjoys it, but you don’t have any choice. If you drop out and you say, “I’m not going to come”, that would be very bad politically. But it’s far from an ideal setting for the kind of discussing that I would like to have.

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Poll: Who Won the CNN National Security Debate?

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By RonPaul.com on November 22, 2011

Who won the debate?

Ron Paul (95%, 8,911 Votes)
Newt Gingrich (2%, 231 Votes)
Jon Huntsman (1%, 98 Votes)
Mitt Romney (1%, 59 Votes)
Rick Perry (0%, 43 Votes)
Michele Bachmann (0%, 39 Votes)
Herman Cain (0%, 25 Votes)
Rick Santorum (1%, 23 Votes)

Total Voters: 9,429

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Watch the CNN National Security Debate

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By RonPaul.com on November 22, 2011

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Participants: Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, John Huntsman, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum

Moderator: Wolf Blitzer

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TV Voice: Ron Paul, a leading anti-war voice in Congress.

Ron Paul: We should only go to war when the people in this country declare the war.

TV Host: Texas Congressman Ron Paul.

Ron Paul: I’m Ron Paul, I’m the congressman from Texas, I am pleased to be here at the debate because this is a very important debate. I am convinced that needless and unnecessary wars are a great detriment, they undermine our prosperity and our liberties, they add to our deficits, and they consume our welfare. We should take a careful look at our foreign policy.

TV Host: Our lead-off question is from the Honorable Edwin Meese, the former attorney general of the United States, who’s representing the Heritage foundation.

Edwin Meese: At least 42 terrorist attacks aimed at the United States have been thwarted since 9/11. Tools like the PATRIOT Act have been instrumental in finding and stopping terrorist. Shouldn’t we have a long-range extension of the investigative powers contained in that act, so that our law enforcement officers can have the tools that they need?

Wolf Blitzer: Congressman Paul, I suspect you disagree.

Ron Paul: I do.

Wolf Blitzer: Tell us why.

Ron Paul: I think the PATRIOT Act is unpatriotic, because it undermines our liberty. I’m as concerned as everybody is about the terrorist attack, Timothy McVeigh was a viscous terrorist, he was arrested. Terrorism is still on the books, internationally and nationally it is a crime and we should deal with it. We dealt with it rather well with Timothy McVeigh. But what I really fear is, we have drifted into a condition that we were warned against, because our early founders were very clear, they said, “Don’t be willing to sacrifice liberty for security”. Today, it seems too easy that our government and our Congresses are so willing to give up our liberties for our security. I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security, you can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

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Ron Paul: Cut Spending Now to Put America Back on the Path to Liberty & Prosperity

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By RonPaul.com on November 21, 2011

by Ron Paul

This week marks the deadline for the so-called congressional Super Committee to meet its goal of cutting a laughably small amount of federal spending over the next decade. In fact the Committee merely needs to cut about $120 billion annually from the federal budget over the next 10 years to meet its modest goals, but even this paltry amount has produced hand-wringing and hysteria on Capitol Hill. This is only cutting proposed increases. It has nothing to do with actually cutting anything. This shows how unserious politicians are about our very serious debt problems.

To be fair, however, in one sense members of the Super Committee face an impossible task. They must, in effect, cut government spending without first addressing the role of government in our society. They must continue to insist the federal government can provide Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits in the future as promised, while maintaining our wildly interventionist foreign policy. Yet everyone knows this is a lie.

Keep in mind that the 2011 federal deficit alone was about $1.3 trillion, which means the Super Committee needs to cut that much PER YEAR rather than over a 10 year period. If Congress ever hopes to address its debt problem, it must first stop accumulating any new debt immediately, in 2012.

Federal revenue likely will be about $2.3 trillion in fiscal 2012. The 2004 federal budget was about $2.3 trillion. So Congress simply needs to adopt the 2004 budget next year and the federal government will balance outlays and revenue. That’s all it would take to produce a balanced budget right now. Was the federal government really too small just 7 years ago, in 2004? Of course not. Only Washington hysteria would have us believe otherwise.

Yet our Republican and Democrat friends on the Super Committee want to take 10 years, or even 30 years, to produce a balanced budget.

Government spending isn’t just wasteful; it is often actively harmful to stated goals. The Super Committee could simply apply 2004 spending levels across the board and a tremendous victory for fiscal sanity would be accomplished.

What seems more likely, however, is a rearrangement of the tax code in an attempt to bring in more revenue. Deductions and credits will be taken away, and the Bush tax cuts will be allowed to expire. As a result, less money will remain in the private sector to create jobs and produce economic growth. The Super Committee has an opportunity to take a small baby step in the right direction. Instead, they no doubt will take this opportunity to raise taxes and make everything worse. But increasing taxes will only diminish freedom and deepen the recession. Instead of looking for ways to hike taxes under the guise of “raising revenue,” the Super Committee should put forth a plan of real spending cuts to put America back on the path to liberty and prosperity.

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Ron Paul on Face the Nation

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By RonPaul.com on November 20, 2011

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Bob Schieffer: Don’t look now, but it happened, Ron Paul may have been a fringe candidate before, but he has moved into a statistical tie for the lead in Iowa where the first contest will be held in just a matter of weeks. Is he surprised?

Ron Paul: Not so much, I think we’ve been there for a long time, I think they’ve been in denial.

Bob Schieffer: Nor is he bashful about where he says our economic problems begin.

Ron Paul: The Federal Reserve is immoral, it’s unconstitutional, and it’s a disaster.

Bob Schieffer: As for foreign policy and a strong national defense …

Ron Paul: I think military spending diminishes our defense. I’d much rather see that money spent at home.

Bob Schieffer: He’s with us to talk about that, and a lot more. Then, we’ll turn to the deepening Washington gridlock over taxes and the deficit. We’ll hear from Pennsylvania’s Republican senator, Pat Toomey, a member of the so-called super-committee that’s grappling with that. And we’ll bring in West Virginia’s Democratic Senator, Joe Manchin, who has his own ideas about the mess Congress is in, as we explore the broader question: is all this the reason that Paris Hilton, according to some polls, is now more popular than Congress. This is Face the Nation.

TV Voice: From CBS News in Washington, Face the Nation, with Bob Schieffer.

Bob Schieffer: And good morning again, we begin this morning with Congressman Ron Paul. The polls, Mr. Paul, suggest that you are now in the thick of it out in Iowa, basically in a statistical tie with Romney, with Cain, and with Mr. Gingrich. So I want to ask you some questions now that you’re among the frontrunners. We need to know more about your positions on the issues, and I want to start with foreign policy, because your statements over the years posted on your website and elsewhere, some of the things you have said in the debates, suggest that you believe that 9/11 happened because of actions that the United States took. Is that correct?

Ron Paul: Oh yea, I think there’s an influence, and that’s exactly what the 9/11 commission said, that’s what the DOD has said, and that’s also what the CIA has said and that’s what a lot of researches have said. And just remember, immediately after 9/11, we removed the base from Saudi Arabia, so there is a connection. That doesn’t do the whole full explanation, but our policies definitely had an influence. And you talk to the people who committed it and those individuals who would like to do us harm, they say, “Yes, we don’t like American bombs to be falling on our country”, they don’t like the intervention that we do in their nations. So to deny this I think is very dangerous. But to argue the case that they want to do us harm because we are free and prosperous, I think is a very, very dangerous notion, because it’s not true.
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Poll: Who Won the Family Leader Debate?

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By RonPaul.com on November 19, 2011

Who won the debate?

Ron Paul (95%, 2,582 Votes)
Newt Gingrich (2%, 42 Votes)
Michele Bachmann (1%, 26 Votes)
Rick Perry (1%, 26 Votes)
Rick Santorum (1%, 25 Votes)
Herman Cain (0%, 14 Votes)

Total Voters: 2,715

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Family Leader Debate (Thanksgiving Family Forum) with Ron Paul

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By RonPaul.com on November 19, 2011

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Participants: Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich

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Ron Paul at Des Moines Register Editorial Board Interview

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By RonPaul.com on November 19, 2011

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Rick Green: Good morning, my name is Rick Green, I’m editor and vice president of news for the Des Moines Register. With us today on our editorial board here in the Des Moines Register newsroom is Ron Paul, Representative from the 14th district of Texas. Congressman Paul, of course, is a candidate for the Republican Party nomination for the presidency of the United States in the 2012 election. Congressman, it’s a pleasure to have you here with us today, thanks for coming in.

Ron Paul: Thank you very much, I appreciate it.

Rick Green: We wanted to give you a couple of moments, just a couple of minutes, to talk a little bit about where you are with the campaign, some of the key points that you are making out there to your supporters, and we’ll start asking you some questions right after that.

Ron Paul: Well, my campaign has been going on for a long time, and I’ve been campaigning since the early 1970s for liberty; I want limited government, I want the rule of law, I want the constitution. And I got involved in politics probably inadvertently because it was a place where I could express myself. So those issues have been very important to me, I’ve been working on them for a long time, and there’s been a tremendous change in the country and the interest in what I’ve been doing since the 1970s. I was worried, even in the early 1970s, of a financial crisis of the type which we’re suffering from right now. So it’s very appropriate that I continue this effort, and especially in this campaign, because the whole country is looking for a new direction. But not only is it different from the 1970s, it’s different from 1994 when there was a change in Congress, there’s a difference from the year 2000. But the big change in attitude which reflects upon our campaign, has been the financial crisis which has been recognized now by just about everybody from 2008 – the collapse of the financial system, which we’re in the middle of. And that that is ongoing and is very, very serious and I think the people in Washington I know, whether it’s the administration or Congress, are just floundering, because they haven’t addressed it properly from my viewpoint. And, therefore, the views I express aren’t exactly the most popular in Washington, but in the last 4 years, the interest has just exploded, which pleases me to no end. Continue reading “Ron Paul at Des Moines Register Editorial Board Interview”

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