Congressman Ron Paul is the leading advocate for freedom in our nation’s capital. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Paul tirelessly works for limited, constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies. He is known among his congressional colleagues and his constituents for his consistent voting record. Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution.In the words of former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Dr. Paul is the “one exception to the Gang of 535″ on Capitol Hill.
Ron Paul was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine, before proudly serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the 1960s. He and his wife Carol moved to Texas in 1968, where he began his medical practice in Brazoria County. As a specialist in obstetrics/gynecology, Dr. Paul has delivered more than 4,000 babies. He and Carol, who reside in Lake Jackson, Texas, are the proud parents of five children and have 17 grandchildren.
While serving in Congress during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dr. Paul’s limited-government ideals were not popular in Washington. In 1976, he was one of only four Republican congressmen to endorse Ronald Reagan for president.
During that time, Congressman Paul served on the House Banking committee, where he was a strong advocate for sound monetary policy and an outspoken critic of the Federal Reserve’s inflationary measures. He was an unwavering advocate of pro-life and pro-family values. Dr. Paul consistently voted to lower or abolish federal taxes, spending and regulation, and used his House seat to actively promote the return of government to its proper constitutional levels. In 1984, he voluntarily relinquished his House seat and returned to his medical practice.
Dr. Paul returned to Congress in 1997 to represent the 14th congressional district of Texas. He presently serves on the House Committee on Financial Services and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. He continues to advocate a dramatic reduction in the size of the federal government and a return to constitutional principles.
Congressman Paul’s consistent voting record prompted one of his congressional colleagues to say, “Ron Paul personifies the Founding Fathers’ ideal of the citizen-statesman. He makes it clear that his principles will never be compromised, and they never are.” Another colleague observed, “There are few people in public life who, through thick and thin, rain or shine, stick to their principles. Ron Paul is one of those few.”
Brief Overview of Congressman Paul’s Record:
- He has never voted to raise taxes.
- He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
- He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
- He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
- He has never taken a government-paid junket.
- He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
- He voted against the Patriot Act.
- He voted against regulating the Internet.
- He voted against the Iraq war.
- He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
- He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.
On the Issues: Audit the Federal Reserve, Our Money, Taxes, National Defense, Border Security, Civil Liberties, Health Care, Abortion, Education, War on Drugs, Global Warming
You’ve got my vote. Count on it.
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Ron,
Please,please, move to wherever. This country would be better off with less people like you. You are one sick human being. Our countrywas not built by people with your standards.
Fred M.
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The NWO wants a global economic catastrophe so they can push their one world government one world currency agenda.
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if paul runs we need to keep him in a pope bubble because the nwo will be out to get him just like jfk
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Ron is more than a person he is an idea made manifest and the NWO can never touch that
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I might actually consider your argument sir; if you could actually spell Muslim correctly. For that matter, use spell check before you click the comment button. The money we spend giving aid to Israel is a drop in the bucket in the grand sense of the foreign aid budget, however, we do give them roughly $3 billion per year in defense and economic aid. Israel also receives a great amount of funding from Jews all around the world, and especially in the US. This comment is not in any way against supporting the Israeli state, or an attack on Jews; I simply hate when people try to claim their inappropriate ideas as fact (I hate when dumb people hear dumb things and try to pass them on as if they were true). And to continue to attack your false logic, I didn’t know that Australia and Portugal were no longer our allies/friends… I guess I will have to cancel my vacation plans. I do agree that there is a liberal media, as certainly as I agree that there is an even stronger conservative media that supported many bad things that were put through during the GW years, and now turn about and try and blame those problems on this new administration. Where was the Conservative media when the PATRIOT Act was being passed, or when Bush ook’d the de-regulation of the banking system in his first term? Now the effects of this get blamed on a President, whom I believe wanted to get rid of these problems, but was met with so much force against him, that he could not get anything done effectively. And just for your information, after Senator Paul, I was going to vote for Senator McCain; that is until that flirty-lying-harpy Sarah Palin joined his ticket. Good luck to you sir, and may I recommend that you take a couple of courses in National Security Policy, International Law, and the philosophy of the founding of the US government.
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Apologies; omit Senator Paul, and replace with Congressman Paul.
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IT ALL LOOKS AND SOUNDS GOOD, BUT THE DEAL BREAKER AND WHY I COULD NOT VOTE FOR YOU IS YOUR STAND AGAINST ISRAEL.
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Thankyou Dr. Paul. As a fellow Texan I am proud to be able to in a small way give my support to a true American. I have been supporting the same American way as Ron Paul since the 70′s or so and I have never found any reason to question his motives in any way. We the people need hundreds more like him. S. Loucks, Texas.
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Dr. Paul please keep this up, don’t ever give up America needs you
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I like a whole lot of what I’ve heard from and about Dr Paul. There is one issue important to me that I can’t seem to find his stance on. That stance would be the one on unions, in particular, the issue currently going on in Wisconsin with the teacher’s and state employees. If anyone knows and can give me a link to his answer, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks
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Yeas dumb ass as long as we do not need all that cheap oil!
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Oil is what backs all currencies. Every time you pump value is added to US currency. When the supply of oil is jerked with the price of oil changes. Thus, this is your lesson in crude oil production boys and girls. Happy trails.
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Dear Ernst,
Thank you for that brief history lesson, but you failed to acknowledge that FDR was a closet communist, Wilson- a progressive (socialist), and our current dictator wannabe (a devout socialist which is in hiding as a democrat.) You also failed to tell us why Swiss banks are still holding Nazi money. Please enjoy your failing socialist government, green cars, rolling blackouts, and diaper free babies.
Ron Paul is the answer to most of the problems plaguing this country.
P.S., thanks for the chocolate.
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Justin is lil punk tht likes alota men
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becca is lesbian
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Could you review Porter Stansberry dire prediction for America and end deficit spending in America. Here is the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI-BIVWlc7A
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Letter from Switzerland:
The political US system on the federal level is based on corrupted, fascistoid “democracy” which is in fact not controlled by the people but by finance. In this respect there is no difference between the Republican and the Democratic Party, between Obama, Bush and Clinton, they are all bought by the forces that had already financed WW1 and most of the consequent global conflicts. In fact fascism does not need racism. It can also “do well” with multiculturalism and with antiracism. The most important thing for fascism is the fact that the people stay badly informed and easy to manipulate (the so called “pensée unique” in French or “Einheitsdenken” in German) and that the government fulfills the will of the very few big capitalists. That’s what Hitler tried to do in the beginning of his reign.
Few people in the United States know that the “liaison officer” (the link) between Hitler and the US capitalism was the American-German Banker Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht. He was a free mason who played the role of a Nazi and who was financing Hitler
Roosevelt who met Schacht and had common friends said that he “disliked” him. What else could he say? Roosevelt was the president of a country that was always pretending to support democracy but in fact backed dictators and fascism everywhere in the world. What we see now in the Islamic countries is partially the result of this US policy.
Going back in history one must identify Woodrow Wilson as the worst enemy of democracy. By sending the great labor leader and pacifist Eugene Debs under the sedition act for years in prison he was dismantling the US democracy and destroying the former democratic labor movement. As from that moment, the people of the United States lost control and federal elections became farces.
It is very sad that the great American people is no more able to reorganize a genuine democratic system. Excellent high profile left and right wing persons exist ; Just to name a few of them Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul…. They are all very sincere and honest but they have no chance: They are not the candidates of the financial world!
The political and economic situation of the United States gets now close to the one of the Sovjet Union before its collapse: Too high military spending and a “nomenclature” that is shamefully stealing the nation’s wealth. The United States’ “Elite” under W. Wilson together with the Britisch Empire have already been in a similar situation before and during WW1. By forcing naive Kaiser Wilhelm into war (after a terrorist attack on his Habsburg allies and other “tricky tricks” executed by British secret services) they could exploit continental Europe nearly like their own colonies. However, to-day such a “preventive” war e.g. against new competitor China will no more be possible. It is definitively (and luckily) too late and the “game” would be unequal: The Americans are playing short term “monopoly” the Chinese long term “chess”. And we have no idea whether a future Brazil style multicultural society such as the North American one or a rather homogenous ethnical nation such as China will have the better chance to win the economic, political and hopefully not military struggle. Alternatively, a very important competition should be initiated on a peaceful level: What country and society will do better progress in improving its democratic structures: Both, China and the United States MUST WIN THIS STRUGGLE. THEY CAN WIN IT TOGETHER AND NOT AGAINST EACH ONE. This is the big and unique challenge.
Meanwhile, the Egyptians and other Arabic nations will show to the Americans that false democracy and absence of democracy should not be taken as a fate.
I do not care whether a politician is from the “right” or “left” wing but he must be tolerant, independent and be able to defend his ideas and the interests of the working people in a moderate and democratic way without hate and arrogance. He should have a Christian background without being a fanatic or a fundamentalist. He must also know the history and the geopolitics of the world. Ron Paul is such a rare man.
(I am from Switzerland: A little bit more than one year ago, our country had a nasty conflict with the Libyan Dictator Gaddafi: Our police apprehended one of Gaddafi’s sons because he was severely mistreating his servants in Geneva. As soon as he got out of Switzerland, Dictator Gaddafi arrested arbitrarily two Swiss citizens in Libya. They have been kept under arrest for nearly two years. Swiss government was consequently seeking the help of the United Nations (Gaddafi’s regime was holding at that time the chair of the UN committee for human rights!!!!!), United States and the European Community and its member states. BUT ALL OF THEM PRFERRED TO STICK TO THE CRAZY AND CRIMINAL DICTATOR GADAFFI, HIS SONS…AND HIS OIL!!!!!!!!!!!)
Finally I have to state that I love the American people and I feel very familiar to them. The original democratic structures of Switzerland and the United States have been very similar. On the personel level, too, I feel very close to this (potentially) great country. A far reaching member of my clan became a US hero in the naval battle of the Lake Erie many, many years ago: Henry Laub from Pensylvania.
…. I should love to see Ron Paul become President with Nader or Buchanan as Vicepresident (In our political system in Switzerland we have also such kind of mixture and it works very well like that!).
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I AGREE WITH RON PAUL 100%. ESPECIALLY ON OUR SCREWED UP FORIEGN POLICIES. WE NEED TO KEEP OUR NOSE OUT OF OTHER COUNTRIES BUSINESS AND STOP GIVING THEM OUR TAX MONEY, ESPECIALLY ISRAEL. UNFORTUNATELY THE DEFENSE INDUSTRY DICTATES OUR FOREIGN POLICY BECAUSE WAR IS BIG BUSINESS AND WE AMERICANS ARE PAYING FOR IT. I HOPE RON PAUL RUNS IN 2012. T DROEGE
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My only disagreements with Ron are of the separation of church and state and abortion problems, other than that though, it’s the first time I’ve actually agreed with a Republican.
He’s almost a full libertarian!
If the choices for office are between you and Wayne Allyn Root, I’ll probably vote Paul.
(Though I’d rather there be zero involvement with personal decision on one’s body or marriage. That, I think, isn’t particularly the government’s place to decide.)
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