Ron Paul
The Public Record
Yes, I'd come home from Afghanistan, Iraq, the Middle East, Germany, Korea, Japan.
War is the health of the state. Anybody who wants small government, conservatives and the constitutionalist, libertarians -- if they want small government, they have to understand that war is the health of the state.
I want revolutionary ideas. I want to return our country to the original roots of individual liberty.
If you can't grope another person, and if -- if you can't X-ray people and endanger them with possible X-ray, you can't take nude photographs of individuals, why do we allow the government to do it?
If you can't grope another person, and if you can't X-ray people and endanger them with possible X-ray, you can't take nude photographs of individuals, why do we allow the government to do it? We would go to jail.
Oh, yes. Because it's -- but it's economics. I see everything in terms of economic policies, and that's what drives everybody.
What we're witnessing today is change coming from the grassroots. I have noticed over the many years that presidential candidates always campaign on change and they never get it.
There's a lot of unhappiness in this country. And, for that reason, the numbers are just coming together.
Always compromise with people in your goals, which, to me, is perfecting liberty, increasing individual liberty, and the free marketplace.
I don't think we have to -- have to compromise. I think you build coalitions.