Ron Paul

I don't think it would hurt one bit. If an individual can't pay their rent on time, they might ask their landholder to say, look, I will be there next week. They adjust.

I don't think it would hurt one bit. You know if an individual can't pay their rent on time, they might ask their landholder to say look, I'll be there next week. They adjust. The owner and the renter adjust. And this is the way the…

We just flat out don't have the authority to go around pretending that we can take care of everybody and police the world.

I think our policies, our foreign policies are destabilizing the world financial community, and it's going to destabilize this country.

Most good military people say you cannot resolve that problem in Libya without ground troops. Otherwise, all it does is solidify the people against the people who are dropping bombs on them.

But just like going into Iraq, you know, it was going to be a couple weeks, and -- and we were going to rid that country of Saddam Hussein. And the oil would pay all the bills, and look at the tragedy that came out of that.

Well, first, I don't think we have the authority to do it, the constitutional authority, and most of the time these things backfire.

No, I don't think it's clear to anybody, because the Congress hasn't even discussed it, so we certainly wouldn't know. But getting the authority from the U.N. to go into Libya for humanitarian reasons, it doesn't say very much. There's a…

I think it needs to stop. It would stop if we had people who cared about the constitution, because we just flat out don't have the authority to go around pretending that we can take care of everybody and police the world.

So I think the world is much more unstable, and we are in a much worse predicament, both internationally speaking and financially, because of this foreign policy.

But my main argument is that we don't have the authority. And when we get involved, it generally very rarely does much good.

But getting the authority from the U.N. to go into Libya for humanitarian reasons, it doesn't say very much. There's a lot of militarism going on there, and I don't know how much humanitarianism is going on.