I would absolutely never use the federal government to enforce the law of using marijuana — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at]… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did. My goal has always been to change people's minds… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I hope every person who reads or hears this will take the time to go back and read the Declaration of Independence.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Without question, the true goal of some in Congress is to create a system of socialized medicine. It's politically expedient to slap… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Both sides of the political spectrum must one day realize that limitless government intrusion in the economy, in our personal lives, and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
In the American political lexicon, 'change' always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
What you are inferring is, If we were to legalise heroin tomorrow everybody would use heroin. How many people here would start… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We need to get the government out of the way. Inflation hits the middle class and the poor the most. Those are… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The ultimate solution is not in the hands of the government. The solution falls on each and every individual, with guidance from… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We need to surrender our attachments to government in every aspect of life. We need to give up our dependencies on the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
You can at least let sick people have marijuana because it's helpful. But the compassionate conservatives say, well we can't do this,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Everyone on the Commission assumes that 9/11 resulted from a lack of government action. No one in Washington has raised the question… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Young people are not raw material to be employed by the political class on behalf of whatever fashionable political, military, or social… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We need to take away the government's money power. The banking industry needs its welfare check ended. The dollar's soundness depends on… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We must educate ourselves and others about our precious civil liberties to ensure that we never accept demands that we give up… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I wish I could say I was shocked at the reports the NSA is secretly spying on the private phone calls of… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
[Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I'm not against the FBI investigation in doing a proper role, but I'm against the FBI spying on people like Martin Luther… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If people are smokers, don't they have to pay more? Sometimes, you get your insurance cheaper if you are a nonsmoker. So,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It’s amazing that people don’t understand that the more the market is involved and the smaller the government, the lower the price,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The president and other government officials denounce school violence, yet still advocate for endless undeclared wars abroad and easy abortion at home.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We have a government that purposely counterfeits and debases the currencies, and I believe that the alternative would be a competition. That… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is… — Ron Paul Copy Share
History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled, — Ron Paul Copy Share
The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would… — Ron Paul Copy Share
Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with Constitutional protections. — Ron Paul Copy Share
“Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.” — Ron Paul Copy Share
Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another… — Ron Paul Copy Share
Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it… — Ron Paul Copy Share
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing… — Ron Paul Copy Share
I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes. — Ron Paul Copy Share
Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by… — Ron Paul Copy Share