Political Quotes

Ron Paul

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Mar 20, 2011

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

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Mar 20, 2011

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.

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Mar 20, 2011

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…

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Mar 20, 2011

Libya is simply not the American people's fight, and that President Obama should have consulted Congress before getting involved.

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Mar 20, 2011

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.

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Mar 20, 2011

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

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Mar 20, 2011

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

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Mar 20, 2011

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

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Mar 20, 2011

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.

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Mar 20, 2011

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.

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Jan 2, 2011

I would think I'd consider every one of them a pretty big challenge, because, you know, I'm involved in a revolution.

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