Ron Paul on Changing Government

Ron Paul Speech at College of Charleston, Sc
Thursday, January 19,2012 - during the Republican Presidential Primary
C-Span -Capital Hill Hearings

Exerts:


"You want to galvanize people and get them excited and put pressure on the people in Washington. ..  What we have to do is change your hearts and your minds to know what you expect from Government.  .. But Government is a reflection of the people.   If the poeple want us to go to war under UN banner and not declare war, and occupy more and more countries..  unless you decide as a generation that enough is enough.  If you want your rights back again ..  We have to hear from the people.  "

"Obviously, you need to tell your Representatives what you believe, and if you disagree with the Bill, you tell him you disagree with the Bill.  Now if there is 2 or 4 of you, it's not going to do any good.  Just yesterday, Rubio switched his vote (on SOPA) because he heard from his people.  Alot of people in Washington aren't philosophically interested.  They're interested in re-election.   That's what motivates most of them, re-election and power.  If there are enough people that send that message, they ... change their mind. ...So what I would do is encourage (you) to contact your Representatives that don't agree with you... "

TERM LIMITS:
"I introduced the first term limit bill even in the 70s when it wasn't even a subject.  We had a chance to vote on term limits in the 1990s, after the Republicans took over in 1994.  We had about 6 votes (none passed). I voted for all of them.  I support term limits, (ME TOO)  but I don't think it's the answer.  ... If you have somebody who believes the same thing (as you) and they leave, and you put somebody else in who believes in the foreign policy, and the monetary policy and the Federal Reserve, and ... all the bailouts.. But what I think you are suggesting is the turn-over you are going to get a better chance...  After we had those 6 votes in the 1990s it was passed by.  Your second option to that is the people who aren't responding to you, there is still such a thing called an election.  You have to work harder at that I guess."

"Government... certainly can't manage all these countries around the world, and I think we've been getting sick and tired of what they're trying to do  (!!)  About the only thing they've been good at is running up the debt."

"But over-all our main issue is that of Individual Liberty.  That's what's made America great.  That's what the Founders fought for.  When you look at the Bill of Rights and the 4th Amendment has been so severely undermined.  If you take the Bill that was passed shortly after 9/11, The Patriot Act, that hasn't given you any more freedom.  That's given you LESS FREEDOM."

"Also yesterday in Washington I introduced a piece of Legislation.  It was my typical very long complicated piece of Legislation.  It was 1 page.  It says repeal that provision in the National Defense Authorization Act that gives the President the authority to arrest Americans by the military and held indefinitely.  I want to repeal that part."



Disclosure - I usually skip parts i don't agree with or in which I'm not very interested .
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