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Channel: Russia Today
Date: 11/01/2009
Transcript
Dina Gusovsky: A national emergency is declared in the United States, but it doesn’t have anything to do with the war in Afghanistan, the economic crisis, or nukes in Iran. Instead, it’s H1N1, the swine flu. But is all this media hysteria really justified, and is the threat as dire as some [...]

Ron Paul: “I probably dislike [the current system] as much as Michael Moore does. But he’s complaining about it being part of capitalism. It has nothing to do with capitalism. This is corporatism, the corporations. I agree with him.”

Show: Larry King Live
Channel: CNN
Date: 10/29/2009
Larry King:… Ron Paul, Republican of Texas. He ran for president this [...]

Ron Paul appeared on The Tavis Smiley Show to discuss the war in Afghanistan and ending the Federal Reserve.

Show: Tavis Smiley Show
Channel: PBS
Date: 10/21/2009
Transcript:
Tavis Smiley: Congressman Ron Paul from Texas is serving his 11th term in Congress. In 2008 he mounted a bid for the White House that galvanized an eclectic mix of supporters, including [...]

Venue: U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Date: 10/15/2009
Transcript:
Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In the last months, we have had a pretense of having a debate about Afghanistan, but unfortunately, it’s not much of a debate. We’re deciding whether or not to send 40,000 or 80,000 troops over to Afghanistan and we can’t even [...]

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Saving Face in Afghanistan
by Ron Paul
This past week there has been a lot of discussion and debate on the continuing war in Afghanistan. Lasting twice as long as World War II and with no end in sight, the war in Afghanistan has been one of the [...]

Date: 10/9/2009
Key points:

Ron Paul wasn’t totally shocked that it happened
the prize represents not peace, but internationalism, world government and a UN/NATO-type approach to global affairs
Obama’s tone is better, but he isn’t pro-peace
Obama totally neutralized the anti-war left, which is very sad
the same happens when conservatives are elected: they promise less government, but give us more, [...]

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Bombs and Bribes
by Ron Paul
What if tomorrow morning you woke up to headlines that yet another Chinese drone bombing on US soil killed several dozen ranchers in a rural community while they were sleeping? That a drone aircraft had come across the Canadian border in the [...]

Interview: Time Magazine – 10 Questions for Ron Paul
Date: 9/17/2009
Transcript
Michael Scherer: Hi, this is Michael Scherer from TIME and I’m here with Congressman Ron Paul, Texas Republican, two-time Presidential candidate, who has a new book out this September called “End The Fed”. Thanks for joining us, Congressman Paul.
Ron Paul: Nice to be here with you.
Michael [...]

Ron Paul discusses U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan and growing unrest over Obama’s expansion of the war and nation building efforts.

Source: Campaign for Liberty
Date: 9/14/2009
Transcript
Ron Paul: Finally we’re going to talk about something other than medical care. The summer was saturated with the news and discussions in all the town hall meetings about what [...]

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Government Solutions Lack Understanding
by Ron Paul
Things seem to be unraveling quickly for the new administration. The latest unemployment numbers are worse than the last reports. For all the billions of dollars spent and committed to fixing our economic problems, the situation is only getting worse. This [...]

Event: Florida Liberty Summit with Ron Paul
Location: Orlando, FL
Date: August 7, 2009
Ron Paul: If we are to have a small government, that government should be restrained and limiting its power and authority to the protection of our liberty and nothing else.
There shouldn’t be a perpetual war on the people. They say there is always [...]

In his latest column, Ron Paul points out that U.S. foreign policy has not changed. Our leaders continue to violently intervene in the affairs of other countries, with entirely predictable – and often very deadly – consequences. Instead of working for peace, they are creating a new generation of enemies. — tmartin

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