Campaign Statements — Ron Paul

Saturday January 07, 2012

“This is why the Patriot Act is wrong, because you have a right of privacy by the Fourth Amendment.”

“I think the Fourth Amendment is very clear. It is explicit in our privacy. You can’t go into anybody’s house and look at what they have or their papers or any private things without a search warrant. This is why the Patriot Act is wrong, because you have a right of privacy by the Fourth Amendment.”

CATEGORIES: Civil Liberties | Ron Paul |

Thursday December 15, 2011

“They want to do us harm because we are bombing them.”

“But to declare war on 1.2 billion Muslims and say all Muslims are the same, this is dangerous talk. Yeah, there are some radicals, but they don’t come here to kill us because we’re free and prosperous. Do they go to Switzerland and Sweden? I mean, that’s absurd. If you think that is the reason, we have no chance of winning this. They come here and explicitly explain it to us. The CIA has explained it to us. It said they come here and they want to do us harm because we’re bombing them.”

CATEGORIES: Islamophobia | Ron Paul | War on Terror |

Thursday December 15, 2011

“Sanctions are an act of war.”

“So already the president - and I think he is wisely backing off on the sanctions, because it’s going to be an economic calamity if you take all the oil out of Europe. So I think that makes sense. He knows these sanctions are overreaching. Sanctions are an act of war when you prevent goods and services from going into a country. We need to approach this a little differently. We have 12,000 diplomats in our services. We ought to use a little bit of diplomacy once in a while.”

CATEGORIES: Iran | Ron Paul |

Thursday December 15, 2011

“We really ought to…not jump the gun…That’s how we got into the useless war in Iraq.”

“There’s no U.N. evidence of [Iran being close to having a nuclear bomb]. Clapper at the—in our national security department, he says there is no evidence. It’s no different than it was in 2003. You know what I really fear about what’s happening here? It’s another Iraq coming. There’s war propaganda going on.

And we’re arguing—to me, the greatest danger is that we will have a president that will overreact and we will soon bomb Iran. And the sentiment is very mixed. It’s—it’s very mixed even in Israel. You know, there—the—a head of the security for Israel, who just recently retired, said that it wouldn’t make sense to do this, to take—to take them out, because they might be having a weapon. So I would say that the greatest danger is overreacting. There is no evidence that they have it. And it would make more sense—if we lived through the Cold War, which we did, with 30,000 missiles pointed at us, we ought to really sit back and think and not jump the gun and believe that we are going to be attacked. That’s how we got into that useless war in Iraq and lost so much in Iraq.”

CATEGORIES: Iran | Iraq | Ron Paul | War on Terror |

Saturday December 10, 2011

“To go out of our way and say so-and-so is not a real people? Technically and historically, yes…”

“N—no, I don’t agree with [the Palestinians being an “invented people”]. And that’s just stirrin’ up trouble. And I—I believe in a non-interventionist foreign policy. I don’t think we should get in the middle of these squabbles. But to go out of our way and say that so-and-so is not a real people? Technically and historically, yes—you know, under the Ottoman Empire, the Palestinians didn’t have a state, but neither did Israel have a state then too….But—historically, it—it—you know, under the Ottoman Empire, that i—that is—technically—correct.”

CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Ron Paul |

Wednesday November 23, 2011

“You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights”

“Today it seems too easy that our government and our congresses are so willing to give up our liberties for our security”

CATEGORIES: Civil Liberties | Ron Paul |

Wednesday November 23, 2011

“This is a giant step – literally legalizing martial law”

“This is a giant step – this should be the biggest news going right now – literally legalizing martial law”

CATEGORIES: Civil Liberties | Ron Paul | War on Terror |

Tuesday November 22, 2011

“[Israel is] quite capable of taking care of themselves.”

“Israel has 200, 300 nuclear missiles. And they can take care of themselves. Why should we commit—we don’t even have a treaty with Israel. Why do we have this automatic commitment that we’re going to send our kids and send our money endlessly to Israel? So I think they’re quite capable of taking care of themselves.”

CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Ron Paul |

Tuesday November 22, 2011

“They want to kill us over there because…they want to…get people who occupy their country out.”

“I worry most about overreaction on our part, getting involved in another war when we don’t need to, when we have been attacked, and our national security has not been at threat. And I worry a lot about people never have come around to understanding who the Taliban is and why they are motivated.

...Taliban doesn’t mean they want to come here and kill us. The Taliban means they want to kill us over there because all they want to do is get people who occupy their country out of their country, just like we would if anybody tried to occupy us.”

CATEGORIES: Afghanistan | Ron Paul | War on Terror |