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Date: 10/20/2009
Show: American Morning
Channel: CNN
Transcript:
Kiran Chetry: It’s a mix that is hard to figure out for many Americans with an unemployment rate of nearly 10% put in the Wall Street Journal, the nation’s top 23 banks and investment firms are poised to pay a record 140 billion dollars in bonuses to their top executives. And [...]

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 [...]

Date: 9/8/2009
Ron Paul: Well, it’s Tuesday morning and we’re getting ready to go back to D.C. Congress has been out for five weeks. It used to be said that the country was safe when legislature was out of session but in this day and age it’s not true anymore. Government’s on auto-pilot. The bureaucracies work, [...]

Is Congress just a decadent caricature of its former self, timidly executing the secret orders of the hidden elite? Sometimes it appears that way, especially when congressmen and women obediently vote on a bill without reading it and without having had the opportunity to do so, as it was made available just hours before. Ron [...]

Just like Republicans now oppose economic socialism and nationalized healthcare, they should also speak out against perpetual war and unsound money, is the message of Ron Paul’s latest video update.

Date: 6/29/2009
Ron Paul: Last week in the House of Representatives was not a very good time for the Republic. The big bill last week that was [...]

When asked by Rep. John Duncan on Thursday about the fact that a majority of Congress is co-sponsoring Ron Paul’s HR 1207 bill to audit the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke responded:
Ben Bernanke: “My concern about the legislation is that if the GAO is auditing not only the operational aspects of the programs and the details [...]

Statement of Congressman Ron Paul
United States House of Representatives
Statement on H Res 489 Regarding Tiananmen Square
June 3, 2009
Ron Paul: I rise to oppose this unnecessary and counter-productive resolution regarding the 20th anniversary of the incident in China’s Tiananmen Square. In addition to my concerns over the content of this legislation, I strongly object [...]

In his latest column, Ron Paul exposes the Federal Reserve System as a cabal of elite, quasi-governmental banks who have destabilized the economy, destroyed 96% of the dollar’s value, silently stole from the poor to give to the rich, and are deeply entrenched with the political power elite, all the while claiming with a straight [...]

Event: House Foreign Relations Committee Hearing
Date: 5/5/2009
Transcript
Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Welcome, Mr. Ambassador. I have a couple of concerns I want to express. The main concern I have is I was hoping to see maybe a change in our foreign policy from the last administration. But, of course, we see just more of [...]

Date: 4/22/2009
Venue: House Foreign Affairs Committee
Channel: C-SPAN 3
Transcript:
Howard Berman: The gentleman from Texas, Mr. Paul, is recognized for five minutes.
Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And welcome, Madame Secretary.
I have a general question I want to ask about foreign policy, but leading up to that question I would like to mention first that the election [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Mj788Ukhc
John Fitzgerald Kennedy: The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society.
Jive Dadson: That, of course, was the well known voice of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Hello everybody, Jive Dadson here. I’ve been asked to come out of YouTube semi-retirement to make a video about a very important subject. It’s about your money, [...]

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Show: The Young Turks
Date: 3/26/2009
Transcript:
Cenk Uygur: Now, the interview we’ve been waiting for for a while. Dr. Ron Paul, the Congressman from the great state of Texas. Dr. Paul, thank you for joining us.
Ron Paul: It’s good to be with you.
Cenk Uygur: We have a lot to discuss. Let’s get to the economy [...]