Ron Paul
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries saw a strain of libertarian-leaning politics push into mainstream American electoral life, carried by figures who moved between medicine, media, and government. Ron Paul, born in Pittsburgh on August 20, 1935, became one of the more persistent voices in that space, working across a notably wide range of roles.
Paul trained at Gettysburg College and Duke University, going on to work as a physician, surgeon, obstetrician, and gynecologist before entering electoral politics. He served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977 and again from 1979 to 1985, then represented Texas's 14th congressional district from 1997 to 2013. Outside the House, he ran for president as the Libertarian Party nominee in 1988 and sought the Republican Party nomination in both 2008 and 2012. His media work has been just as varied — he has worked as a television producer, podcaster, YouTuber, and journalist, maintaining a public presence well beyond his years in Congress.
Paul has received the Order of Merit of the Star of Liberland, and the Library of Congress carries his authorized name label as "Paul, Ron, 1935-." That institutional record, combined with his decades of congressional service and three presidential campaigns, reflects a political career that stretched across several distinct chapters of American public life.
Quotes by Ron Paul
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We spend too much, we borrow too much, and we distort the markets. The bigger the distortions have lasted, the bigger the bust will be.
Though I don't personally believe that Bitcoin is true money, it should be perfectly legal, and there should be no restrictions on it; there should be no taxes on it.
We have a government that purposely counterfeits and debases the currencies, and I believe that the alternative would be a competition. That means that anything that wants to substitute for the American dollar should be permitted.
What we should all argue for is the use of freedom rather than having a monetary system with regulation domination that is run by a cartel and the special interests - that is the kind of system we have today.
When the dollar is in trouble, that will be one of the alternatives, and the more Bitcoins are used, the worse it will be for the dollar.
I am concerned about the erraticness of the dollar. The dollar is up, the dollar is down. We print a lot of dollars. The dollar gets devalued. That is really the concern. If people think the gold price up and down is a reflection of something wrong with gold, no - I say it is something wrong with the dollar.
The woman was probably six months along in her pregnancy, and the child she was carrying weighed over two pounds. At that time doctors were not especially sophisticated, for lack of a better term, when it came to killing the baby prior to delivery, so they went ahead with delivery and put the baby in a bucket in the corner of the room. The baby tried to breathe, and tried to cry, and everyone in the room pretended the baby wasn’t there.
Rubio’s sudden concern for the humanitarian situation in Venezuela smacks of hypocrisy, as he supported all US sanctions that have made life for Venezuelans miserable.
Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization. And when the tides turn and the culture again celebrates what it means to be free, our battle will be won. It could happen in our time. It might happen after we are gone from this earth. But it will happen. Our job in this generation is to prepare the way.