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" Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces. "

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" To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution. "

" As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country. "

" When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. "

" Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong. "

" I would say that I'm pretty mainstream. "

" Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic. "

" Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon. "

" Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism. "

" Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms. "

" 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. "

" I like Mitt Romney as a person. I think he's a dignified person. But I have no common ground on economics. He doesn't worry about the Federal Reserve. He doesn't worry about foreign policy. He doesn't talk about civil liberties, so I would have a hard time to expect him to ever invite me to campaign with him. "

" I'd like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade. "

" 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. "

" I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink. "

" There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it. "

" Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us? "

" Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense. "

" You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected. "

" Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense. "

" All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals. "

" When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of our problems. "

" In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself. "

" The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence. "

" If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live. "

" 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 for them? "

" Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed. "

" A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. "

" 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS. "

" Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition. "

" 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 bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. "