16 Ron Paul Quotes That Prove He Is NOT A Liberal
Ron Paul has fooled a lot of liberals lately. They think that because he is anti-war, that it makes him a liberal. The problem is, Ron Paul is not even close to being a liberal. He is simply an anti-war conservative who wants to rip apart the federal government until it can no longer function. Liberals should not vote for Ron Paul and here are 16 quotes that demonstrate why.
1. “The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders’ political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs.”
~Ron Paul, claiming that there is no separation of church and state, despite these writings by Founding Fathers Jefferson and Madison:
“I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.”
~Thomas Jefferson, as President, in a letter to the Baptists of Danbury, Connecticut, 1802
“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.”
~James Madison
2. The Founding Fathers envisioned a robustly Christian yet religiously tolerant America, with churches serving as vital institutions that would eclipse the state in importance.
~Ron Paul, claiming that churches are more important than government. Here’s what the Founding Fathers really thought about churches.
“A Firehouse is more useful than a church.”
~Benjamin Franklin
“In no instance have the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.”
~James Madison
3. “Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.”
~Ron Paul, criticizing the LGBT community for seeking the same rights straight couples have.
4. “You don’t have a right to a house, you don’t have a right to a job, you don’t have a right to medical care.”
~Ron Paul, saying that Americans have no right to have jobs and health care.
5. “It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We’re against mandates so why should we have it? It would be very beneficial.”
~Ron Paul, saying that abolishing the minimum wage would help poor people.
6. “Technically, they [Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid] are. . . . there’s no authority [in the Constitution]. Article I, Section 8 doesn’t say I can set up an insurance program for people. What part of the Constitution are you getting it from? The liberals are the ones who use this General Welfare Clause. . . . That is such an extreme liberal viewpoint that has been mistaught in our schools for so long and that’s what we have to reverse—that very notion that you’re presenting. And the Constitution and the courts said slavery was legal to, and we had to reverse that.”
~Ron Paul, saying he would get rid of Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid during a GOP Presidential Debate.
7. “All rights are individuals. We do not get our rights because we belong to a group. Whether it’s homosexuals, women, minorities, it leads us astray. You don’t get your rights belonging to your group. A group can’t force themselves on anybody else. So there should be no affirmative action for any group.”
~Ron Paul, saying he’s against affirmative action.
8. “The concept of equal pay for equal work is not only an impossible task, it can only be accomplished with the total rejection of the idea of the voluntary contract. The idea that a businessman must hire anyone and is prevented from firing anyone for any reason he chooses, and in the name of rights, is a clear indication that the basic concept of a free society has been lost.”
~Ron Paul, opposing equal pay for women.
9. “I think the current policy is a decent policy.”
~Ron Paul, supporting DADT
10. “If it were written the same way, where the federal government’s taken over property–it has nothing to do with race relations. It has nothing to do with racism, it has to do with the Constitution and private property rights.”
~Ron Paul, saying that he would vote against the Civil Rights Act if it were to come before Congress today.
11. “I call it “nationalism without a whimper,” and the corporate business community is begging for it. The nationalization of industry, while retaining private ownership in name only, is just another word for fascism.”
~Ron Paul, saying that the auto industry shouldn’t have been saved, even though it worked and saved millions of jobs.
12. “Yes, but not overnight. As a matter of fact, my program’s the only one that is going to be able to take care of the elderly. I’d like to get the young people out of it, just the younger generation.”
~Ron Paul, after being asked if he favors abolishing Social Security.
13. “As a Congressman, I’ve never voted for any budget that includes funding for Planned Parenthood. Instead, I’ve introduced the Taxpayers’ Freedom of Conscience Act to cut off all taxpayer funding of abortions, so-called “family planning” services and international abortionists.”
~Ron Paul, saying he would abolish Planned Parenthood this ending vital medical services provided to women.
14. “A state can decide. We don’t need somebody in Washington. I live on the gulf coast, we deal with hurricanes all the time. The local people rebuild the city. Built a sea wall and they survived without FEMA. We should be like 1900, we should be like 1940, 1950, 1960.”
~Ron Paul, advocating the abolition of FEMA just before Hurricane Irene struck the east coast and caused major damage, requiring FEMA to help out.
15. “Yes, because there’s no authority to do this, and just think of all this willingness to want to help every student get a college education. So they’re a trillion dollars in debt, we don’t have any jobs for them, the quality of education has gone down, so it’s a failed program. I went to school when we had none of those. I could work my way through college and medical school because it wasn’t so expensive. So when you run up debt, you print money, costs go up in the areas that the government gets involved in: education, medical care, and housing. So it’s artificial and distorts the economy.”
~Ron Paul, admitting that he wants to abolish federal student loans that millions of students wouldn’t be able to go to college without.
16. “The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.”
~Ron Paul, stating that we should allow people and corporations to pollute all they want, any way they want to and somehow, the free market will stop it.
Ron Paul is a conservative. He wants to repeal the Civil Rights Act, privatize public education, abolish Social Security, kill Medicare, re-establish DADT, eliminate public housing, abolish federal student loans, kill Planned Parenthood, end the Departments of Energy and Education and the EPA, abolish the minimum wage, end affirmative action, disagrees with equal pay for women, and wants to end FEMA. He is a dangerous individual who believes in mixing religion and government. Ron Paul would allow fundamentalist Christians to control the government, the very people who would end the personal liberties he claims to fight for. Ron Paul would destroy every good thing liberals have stood for and fought hard to gain over the last 100 years. By comparison, Ronald Reagan was more liberal than Ron Paul and any self-respecting liberal voter would be wise to reject him and his destructive agenda.
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Author: Stephen D. Foster Jr.
10:32 pm
Who cares about labels anymore? I voted for Obama – we got more war, more war on terror, more assaults on civil liberties (see Jonathan Turley’s recent op-ed in the LA Times which calls Obama a disaster for civil liberties), more crony capitalism and neo-liberal bullshit, more unlimited support for Zionist oppression, no real help for the millions thrown out of their homes by the banksters who bankroll Obama, a health care bill that favors private insurance and drug companies. Paul is not only anti-war, he’s against the military-industrial complex and using our resources at home constructively. He is the only candidate to speak truthfully about the reasons we were attacked on 9/11 -viz. our constant interference and military interventions in other countries, including support of dictators and other tyrants. He’s against the idiotic, wasteful and tragic federal “war on drugs” and believes we should have have the freedom to do what we want with our bodies. Although he’s personally against abortion (he was a practicing gynecologist) he had alienated many social conservatives because he believes the states should regulate abortion, not the federal government. He wants to repeal the Patriot Act. Paul rails against crony capitalism and Wall Street’s close ties with the ruling government elite and monopoly capitalism. I don’t agree with some of his economic ideas, including things like “health care savings accounts” and social programs like Social Security (which I worked for) but weighing his views on the rampant militarism which is bankrupting our country and destroying our civil liberties, the monopoly crony capitalism which is turning Amerika into a wage slave concentration camp, and his honesty and lack of corruption, Ron Paul has this “liberals” firm support. I will not vote again for Obama.
6:17 pm
The only thing liberal and libertarian have in common are the first five letters in the words.
9:51 am
I thought he was a librarian?
12:48 pm
He is. Read the first paragraph. A lot of liberals seem to be mistaken about many of his views.
4:16 pm
libertarian= CONSERVATIVE DOUCHEBAG that thinks if he calls himself a “LIBERTARIAN” people will be STUPID enough to believe he’s NOT a CONSERVATIVE DOUCHEBAG!
5:56 am
Stephen,
Perhaps Ron Paul is not a liberal, but which candidate fulfills liberal goals better than Ron Paul? Lets drill that down a little.
I ask you which economic issue is more important than our politician’s fixation on keeping us in perpetual war? And don’t be fooled by the faulty math that says maintaining a huge occupation army and fighting perpetual wars costs less than 10 trillion dollars in ten years. Are you accounting for all the side expenses which I won’t go into here? Then I ask you which presidential candidate in either party in the forseeable future will substantially cut those costs other than Ron Paul? That issue alone makes him the best liberal and the best conservative. And if your state has a liberal government, which I assume it does, he won’t horass you like all of these other republican candidates will. And when Obama wins as he probably will no matter who wins the nomination, he will think twice about keeping us in perpetual war if he runs against Ron Paul.
3:46 pm
1. He is right that constitution doesn’t guarantee separation of church and state. Jefferson’s quote is from a much later letter. HOWEVER, Ron Paul agrees that the State cannot limit one’s belief nor force beliefs or practices on a citizen. He has always criticized the use of religious dogma as law and ALWAYS sides with liberty. Show me one quote or law he supported that proves otherwise.
2. Ditto. He believes local government is best. This can include churches or mosques or temples. As long as the State doesn’t use infringement, people chose their own use of churches. Local governments are easily held accountable and competition of liberty creates more liberty as people can chose where they live and what taxes they wish to pay.
3. All he says is that the government shouldn’t define marriage. That helps LGBT! He is the only candidate who wants government out of the marriage business. He believes in liberty for all. Opposing the federal government from redefining marriage isn’t anti-gay, because he consistently wants the government out of the marriage business and let people decide for themselves. He is the only candidate, including Obama, who thing gay people should be able to marry. His view on this has never changed. He always chooses liberty.
4. Again, he is right. You do not have a right o a job or house or medical care. Where in the constitution does it say you do? He believes in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. it is not the government’s job to give you a house, job, or medical care and, likewise, they cannot keep you from obtaining these. IT IS YOUR LIBERTY.
If these were rights, you would then be saying that you have the right to another person’s time, skills, products, equipment, and services, but a right cannot take from someone else to give to you. How would that work? What would become of that person’s rights? That whole system would negate every right we have (private property, etc.) Freedom of speech, right of petition, assembly, etc, these do not take from another! Rights cannot take from another! You would have to use force against another with government help, either to steal anther’s house, force a company to hire you at their loss, or enslave a doctor; that is not liberty. Liberty is you having the right to pursue those without your liberty being infringed on. Ron Paul always defends liberty.
5. minimum wage hurts employees. Minimum wage establishes a standard of expectation and does not reward skill or effort or competition. Entry level jobs (gas station, fast food, etc.) no longer need to offer competitive wages because the minimum has been set. Also, this eliminates mobility for lower skilled employees. He is no forcing people to work for less, he is trying to create jobs and higher wages by making businesses pay a competitive wage. Paul knows that nobody is going to take a McDonald’s job for $2 an hr, but he knows nobody is going to offer that job for $25 an hour, because there is no competition as as Wendy’s will offer the same job at the same minimum wage. This is fixing the market. Also, this will reduce exploitation of immigrants and create more jobs for lesser skilled people o want part time work doing thing that companies can’t afford to pay minimum wage jobs to. He is not the only one of this opinion, it is well researched that minimum wage is a pay-weight on entry level jobs. Employers don’t have to pay a lot, because the government established the “expected” wage. He believes in liberty and free markets!
6. Paul is right. The Constitution gives no authority to the president or congress to establish these programs. They are bankrupt and a Ponzi scheme … the last to sign up pay off the first to sign up. The problem is, that populations are always in flux. These programs are always the pocket of abuse and have failed miserably. Paul has said repeatedly that he would not eliminate them at once. He believes the elderly and those counting on SS are due what they were promised, but believes that young people should be given the option to opt out as there will be no money left by the time they retire and that is wrong to demand they pay. He will pay for the remaining participants by using the money saved from not giving money to Israel, Egypt, etc. He believes people have a choice not to be forced into a failed program of corruption and deception, he always sides with liberty.
7. He is right. Rights are for individuals and individuals only. it should not matter what race, gender, religion, etc you are. these should be irrelevant to one’s rights, all are equal. There is no good use of asking race or gender on a tax form or allowing a black delegation of congressman to have special interests as it would be just as wrong if we allowed a white interest group. if you want to end prejudice, quit grouping people! if you want race not to be a means of discrimination, quit making decisions based on one’s race! Liberty isn’t equal when thee factors are in consideration and Ron Paul always sides with liberty.
8. He clearly says that it is an impossible;e task to regulate equal pay. He believes in liberty. An employer can pay what they want. If an employee doesn’t like the pay, they should quit and go work for a competitor. This is the free market. Only an employer can say what an employee is worth.not all women execs are equally skilled,just like not men are, so why should all women get paid the same , ergo why should all people in a position get paid the same. if the employee is valuable and worth the pay, the company will not want them going to work at another company. the free market will reward or adjust any misuse of this as people can walk out. He believes in liberty. This “Article” tries to imply that Paul wants women to get paid less, what a crock. what a phony media group. Ron Paul is Liberty!
9. He never said that gay people should not be able to serve in the military, in facet, he has for years, said they should be able to. His quote implies DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL, it is nobody’s business. He never supported the removal of gay servicemen and women. He and Barny Frank have been the two most vocal politicians about this, why does this article think they can turn this on him? He always supports liberty!
10. One deserves equal rights and protection from government and government should indeed treat everyone without discern. A business is private property, however. Nobody has a right to your goods or services for that would violate your rights. Dr. Paul does not advocate the denial of custom to anyone, but believes it is not the position of the State to force commerce between unwilling parties lest rights be violated. He firmly believes in liberty, including the right not to allow people on to you private property for any reason, whether they be black, white, male, female, gay, a neo-nazi, or a child molester. Dr. Paul feels this is their choice, but does not advocate bigotry. He believes this is a poor choice for humanity but more consequently, a poor business choice that punishes the bigot as the lose business. You do not have a right to another’s possessions, goods, or services, but you do have a right not to be forced to give yours to another. I understand that you wish people would not make that choice, I do as well, but I would rather be refused service that i am not entitled to and go someplace else than be in the opposing position of having my private property delegated by government. It is a poor choice to deny service, but if we are not free to make poor choices than we are not truly free. Ron Paul always sides with Liberty!
3:05 pm
I don’t think anyone thought he was a liberal. Did they? He’s friends with Dennis Kucinich and is anti war on terror and drug war, but I don’t think anyone thought or claimed he was a liberal. kind of a headscratcher here.
He does make alot of liberals look bad on the above and other issues, particularly the “moderate” /Hillary side.
2:01 pm
Ron Paul voted FOR the BUSH TAX CUTS. He’s a hypocrite and friend of the wealthiest 1%.
1:13 pm
Paul-bots are funny. RP is regular old republican. He’s smarter than most, but that doesn’t change the fact they he has far right republican views and votes with republicans almost without exception. yeah, I agree with him about a few things, but that’s because you have to be an idiot to argue that the wars in the middle east have been a good thing and it makes sense dump billions of dollars in to the war on black and Hispanic people, cough I mean the war on drugs.