Ron Paul

Ron Paul
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 14th district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3 1997
Preceded by	Greg Laughlin
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 22nd district
In office January 3 1979 – January 3 1985
Personal details
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Carol Paul
Children	Ronnie Paul Lori Pyeatt Rand Paul Robert Paul Joy LeBlanc-Paul
Profession	Flight surgeon, Physician

Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20 1935) is a 10th-term Congressman, obstetrician (M.D.), and a 2008 presidential candidate from the U.S. state of Texas, seeking the nomination of the Republican Party. Paul's presidential campaign has gotten considerable attention after his participation in the televised Republican presidential debates.

As a Republican, he has represented Texas's 14th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997, and represented Texas's 22nd district in 1976 and from 1979 to 1985.

Paul advocates a limited role for the federal government, low taxes, free markets, a non-interventionist foreign policy, and a return to monetary policies based on commodity-backed currency. He has earned the nickname "Dr. No" because he is a medical doctor who votes against any bill he believes violates the Constitution. In the words of former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Paul is the "one exception to the Gang of 535" on Capitol Hill. He has never voted to raise taxes or congressional pay, and refuses to participate in the congressional pension system. He has consistently voted against the USA PATRIOT Act, the Military Commissions Act of 2006, and the Iraq War.

Early life and education

Paul was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Howard Caspar Paul (1904–1997), the son of a German immigrant, and Margaret Paul (1908–2001), who owned a dairy farm outside Pittsburgh. He was the third of five sons born during the Great Depression. In his early years, Paul worked at his parents' dairy, delivered newspapers and worked in a drugstore.

He graduated from Dormont High School in Dormont, Pennsylvania in 1953. Paul attended Gettysburg College while delivering mail and laundry on the side, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1957.

He was then accepted to Duke University School of Medicine, where he received his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) in 1961. He did his internship training at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit from 1961 to 1962 and residency at the University of Pittsburgh from 1965 to 1968.

Medical career

Paul interrupted his medical training to serve as a flight surgeon in the United States Air Force at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio from 1963 to 1965. He served in the Air National Guard from 1965 to 1968 while completing his medical residency in Pittsburgh.

Paul began his medical practice in Lake Jackson, Texas as a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, delivering more than 4,000 babies. He took over the practice of a retiring doctor and was busy as the only obstetrician and gynecologist in Brazoria County. Paul said of his time as a doctor, "I delivered forty to fifty babies a month and did a lot of surgery."

Dr. Paul did not accept Medicare or Medicaid as a physician; instead, he would do the work for free or work out a lowered payment for needy patients.

Personal life

Paul and his wife Carol have five children, Ronnie, Lori, Rand, Robert, and Joy. He also has 17 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Three of the children, Robert, Rand, and Joy, also became medical doctors. Rand specializes in ophthalmology and Robert specializes in family practice. Like Congressman Paul, his daughter, Joy, specializes in obstetrics/gynecology. Paul supported his children during their undergraduate and medical school years, refusing to allow them to take part in subsidized federal student loan programs. He has not signed up for a congressional pension for the same reason.

When her husband was campaigning in the 14th District, Carol Paul decided to help his campaign by compiling family recipes into a cookbook and sending it to constituents. The cookbook is filled with pictures of the large Paul family. Since originally published, five editions have been written. She and other family members keep a "Recipe of the Week" on her husband's Congressional campaign website.

Paul usually goes home to Lake Jackson on weekends.

Political positions

Main article: Political positions of Ron Paul

In his 2008 presidential campaign, Paul has stated that he would like to "reinstate the Constitution and restore the Republic." He believes in maintaining and restoring civil liberties. His voting record is consistent in rejection of a welfare state role for the federal government and advocacy of hard currency and a non-interventionist foreign policy.

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Ron Paul speaking about the 9/11 commission report in May 2007

In the May 3, 2007, GOP Debate, Paul stated that as President, he would seek the immediate abolition of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the abolition of the income tax. As Congressman, he has long fought for the prohibition of direct taxes by repeal of the 16th Amendment which authorized the income tax.

Paul is the only 2008 Republican presidential candidate to have voted against the Iraq War Resolution in 2002. Paul believes in a strong national defense and voted for the attack on Afghanistan in 2001, , but suggested alternatives including giving the President authority to grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, which would allow war to be carried out against individuals rather than foreign countries and allow local bounty hunters familiar with the Afghanistani terrain to be hired to capture Osama bin Laden and his co-conspirators. Paul released a statement about the bill: "Paul's bill would allow Congress to authorize the President to specifically target Bin Laden and his associates using non-government armed forces. Since it is nearly impossible for U.S. intelligence teams to get close to Bin Laden, the marque and reprisal approach creates an incentive for people in Afghanistan or elsewhere to turn him over to the U.S." Paul would also allow armed commercial airline pilots to prevent future attacks on airplanes.

Paul's desire to secure U.S. borders remains a key topic in his 2008 presidential campaign. He opposes the North American Union proposition and its proposed integration of Mexico, the United States of America, and Canada. Paul voted "yes" on the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which authorizes the construction of an additional 700 miles of double-layered fencing between the U.S and Mexico. Paul opposes illegal immigration as well as amnesty for illegal immigrants. He also introduced legislation that would amend the Constitution to stop giving automatic citizenship to babies who are born in the United States to non-citizen parents, which has been in effect since the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868.

Ron Paul links his pro-life position closely to his libertarian views. Paul supports allowing individual states to decide on the legality of abortion citing that it is not an enumerated power of the federal government. Accordingly, he has challenged Roe v. Wade for its unconstitutionality.

Paul opposed human embryonic stem cell research (May 2005); voted twice to ban partial-birth abortions (2003, 2000); Voted twice against restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions (1999, 2005); Voted against forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research(2003); voted to provide federal funding for health providers who do not provide abortion information (Sep 2002) and to withhold federal funding for women's health clinics that do offer abortion information. (Dec 2000).

He supports the U.S. converting to a free market healthcare system, saying in an interview on New Hampshire NPR that the present system is akin to a "corporatist-fascist" system which keeps prices high. He says that in industries with freer markets prices go down due to technological innovation, but because of the corporatist system, this is prevented from happening in healthcare. He opposes the socialized healthcare alternative offered by Democrats as being harmful as well.

Early congressional career

A prominent physician in his district when he went into politics, Paul became a delegate to the Texas state Republican convention in 1974. He had decided to enter politics on August 15, 1971, when President Richard Nixon went off the gold standard completely. He said,"After that day, all money would be political money rather than money of real value. I was astounded."

Paul was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Congressman from the 22nd District of Texas in 1974, an election where Democratic candidates won heavily, against the incumbent Democrat Robert R. Casey. When President Gerald R. Ford appointed Casey as head of the Federal Maritime Commission, a special election was held in April 1976 to choose a new congressperson. Paul won that election but lost six months later in the general election to Democrat Robert A. Gammage. The vote was close: fewer than 300 votes out of 180,000. He then defeated Gammage in a 1978 rematch. Paul won new terms in 1980 and 1982.

Paul delivered babies on Mondays and Saturdays during his entire term as the 22nd District representative.

Paul was the first congressman to propose term limit legislation for the House of Representatives, where he declined to attend junkets or register for a congressional pension while serving four terms. Paul served on the House Banking Committee during this time, where he spoke against the inflationary measured caused by the Federal Reserve. He was one of only four Republican congressmen to endorse Ronald Reagan for president in 1976. Paul was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate in the 1984 GOP primary against Phil Gramm. In 1985, Paul voluntarily left his seat to return to full-time medical practice and was succeeded by Tom DeLay, then a member of the Texas House of Representatives.

1988 presidential campaign

In the 1988 presidential election, despite no previous affiliation with the Libertarian Party, Paul won the nomination of the United States Libertarian Party for the U.S. Presidency. He placed third in the popular vote (with 431,750 votes - 0.47%), behind George H. W. Bush and Michael Dukakis. Although he had been an early supporter of Ronald Reagan, Paul was critical of the unprecedented deficits incurred by Reagan's administration, for which his opponent George H.W. Bush had been vice-president.

During his time as Libertarian candidate, Paul gained supporters nationwide who agreed with him on many of his positions—on gun rights, fiscal conservatism, home-schoolers, right-to-lifers, and others who thought the federal government was heading in the wrong direction. These supporters formed a nationwide support base that encouraged him to return to office and supported him financially.

Later Congressional career

Campaigns

Congressional portrait

In 1996, Paul returned to Congress after a tougher battle than he had faced in the 1970s. His Republican primary opponent, Greg Laughlin, had support from leaders within the Republican Party, including House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Governor George W. Bush. Incumbent Laughlin had switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican side the year before, but despite efforts by the national party, challenger Paul won the primary by a large margin. Baseball player Nolan Ryan was his honorary campaign chairman. Paul was elected for the coastal 14th Congressional District rather than the 22nd District he had previously represented. The change in district was a result of the borders of redistricting as Paul continued to maintain his home in Lake Jackson.

His Democratic opponent in the fall election, lawyer Charles "Lefty" Morris, lost in a close margin despite running numerous attacks on Paul, including his past votes to repeal federal drug laws in favor of state legislation and portions of old newsletters, assisted by the AFL-CIO. Paul in turn labeled Morris a pawn of trial lawyers and big labor. He raised more money than Morris, with the help of his national network of donors: $1.2 million to Morris' $472,153. Ken Bryan, a Democratic consultant to some of Paul's opponents, has said, "He has one of the largest contributor bases in Congress, outside of the leadership." Most of Paul's contributions are given in small amounts by individuals. That year, he had the third-highest amount of individual contributions of any House member, behind Speaker Newt Gingrich and Bob Dornan.

In 1998 he again won the primary and the election and outraised his opponent by a large margin, $2.1 million to $734,000. Opposing a Democratic rice farmer and former Matagorda County judge, Loy Sneary, Paul won by 11 percentage points; he ran ads warning voters to be "leery of Sneary". Paul accused Judge Sneary of voting to raise his pay by 5% and increasing his judge's travel budget by 400% in one year. Sneary's aides said he had voted to raise all county employees' pay by 5% in a "cost of living" increase. Paul countered that he had never voted to raise congressional pay.

In 2000, Sneary ran against Paul again, with Paul winning 60% to 40%. He raised $2.4 million to Sneary's $1.1 million in that campaign. Paul was re-elected in 2002. Unopposed in 2004, he was re-elected to his ninth term in the Congress, and he was re-elected again in 2006 for his 10th term by a 20-point margin.

Principles

Texas Monthly, calling Paul "both deeply principled and wholly uncompromised", wrote in 2001 that he does not take money from political action committees (PACs), is not swayed by Congressional lobbyists, only votes on his "deeply held beliefs" and does not cut "backroom deals." They write, "The phrase 'honest politician' is an oxymoron; yet in the sense that Paul never, ever votes against his stated principles... the phrase describes him." Along with not signing up for a Congressional pension, Paul's Congressional office returns money to the government each year; in 2000, the sum returned was $50,000.

However, records from the Federal Election Commission show that he does take money from PACs, although much less than most of his counterparts in Congress. Dr. Paul consistently received PAC money during the 1998, 2000, 2004, and 2006 congressional electoral cycles.

In a special report, the group Clean Up Washington listed Paul as taking the seventh-least amount of money from PACs of all members of the House, as well as one of the members of Congress accepting the least amount of money from lobbyists and as ranking fourth in taking the most percentage of contributions from small donors. Their data studied contributions from the 2000 election cycle to midway through 2006. Of the 2008 Republican presidential candidates, he has accepted the least percentage of PAC money.

"Dr. No" can be "maddeningly uncooperative" to his Republican colleagues because he will not give in to pressure to vote for bills that he views as spending taxpayers' money in a wasteful manner or for bills that he feels violate the Constitution. Once when former House Speaker Newt Gingrich exhorted every Republican to vote the party line, he said that Paul was exempt. Fellow fiscal conservative Jeff Flake said in 2006, "When I'm the only no vote, I can usually rest assured he's on a plane somewhere." Paul recounts that once, a bill passed 432-3. He thought the bill was based on a bad principle, and he had convinced the two members of the House sitting next to him to join him in casting a "No" vote while they waited.

Relationship with district

Paul continued to work as an obstetrician in Brazoria County, Texas even while serving in Congress, delivering many constituents' babies. As of 2001, he was one of few doctors in the House (eight, including dentists) and part of an even smaller group that continued to practice while in office. Journalists have reported that it is not unusual for younger people in his home district to approach him and say that he delivered them.

Paul is against some legislation that coastal or rural congresspersons usually are not. Paul's district in Texas borders the Gulf of Mexico with 675 miles of coastline and also includes suburbs of Houston; it was redistricted prior to the 2004 election. Paul is opposed to federally funded flood insurance because it requires those who do not live near flood zones to subsidize those who choose to live in an area that is prone to flooding and does not allow those in flood zones to choose their own insurer. In an "overwhelmingly rural region," Paul opposes farm subsidies because they go to big corporations rather than small farmers. Despite voting against bills with large support in Congress, such as the farm bill, the congressman's "contrarian nature" and devotion to lowering taxes appeals to voters in the 14th District.

While some politicians would find it unthinkable to vote against bringing "pork" to their home district, Paul spends time in the district to compensate for "violat[ing] almost every rule of political survival you can think of." He sometimes spends three to four days a week in his district addressing constituents' concerns, often accompanied by one of his 17 grandchildren. He attends graduations, civic ceremonies, and Boy Scout honor ceremonies. In an expansive district, it is not unusual for him to log more than 300 miles per day visiting constituents or handling their concerns. He is particularly effective at reaching 14th District voters on veterans' issues, such as procuring medals for war veterans who lost or never received their medals; he holds medal ceremonies for those whose medals are being presented. He has helped senior citizens of the district get free or low-cost prescription drugs through a little-known drug company program. His staff sends out birthday cards to constituents, as well as condolence cards on the deaths of family members.

Paul sponsors many bills in Congress, many of which, like one he regularly introduces that would abolish the income tax, do not get out of committee. He has sponsored successful legislation to prevent the Department of Housing and Urban Development from seizing a church in New York state through eminent domain and a bill transferring ownership of the Lake Texana dam project from the federal government to Texas.

Legislation and affiliations

Paul remains on good terms with the Libertarian Party and addressed its national convention in 2004.

Paul served as honorary chairman and is a current member of the Republican Liberty Caucus, a political action organization dedicated to promoting the ideals of individual rights, limited government and free enterprise within the Republican Party.

Unlike many political candidates, Paul receives the overwhelming majority of his campaign contributions (96.8% in 2005–2006) from individuals.

2008 presidential campaign

Main article: Ron Paul presidential campaign, 2008

Ron Paul formally declared his candidacy for the 2008 Republican nomination in March 12, 2007, as a guest on Washington Journal on C-SPAN. The following month, political analyst James Kotecki interviewed him regarding his candidacy, foreign policy, Congress and the Constitution, and personal liberties in a YouTube video.

On February 20, 2007, prior to Paul formally announcing his candidacy, Radley Balko of Foxnews.com wrote an article titled "Ron Paul, the Real Republican?" Balko concludes the piece with these two sentences. "Of all the candidates so far declared, only Paul can credibly lay claim to the legacy of the Reagan-Goldwater revolution. How well he does, how long he lasts, and who ends up defeating him will reveal whether there's any limited government allegiance at all still stirring the Republican Party."

Paul came in second in fundraising in New Hampshire during first quarter fundraising, trailing only Mitt Romney. Since he did not declare his candidacy until March, he had less time to raise money than other candidates who had declared earlier in the quarter. Paul drew 3% support in New Hampshire in a Zogby poll, fifth place among possible Republican contenders. In a CNN telephone poll conducted in February 2007, he was the candidate with the least name recognition besides John Cox, leading poll watchers to report that he has the most room to grow if his Internet popularity can expand to voter support. Paul also came in second in fundraising in Montana and at the head of the pack of "second-tier" candidates in 14 other states.

The campaign staff has doubled in size, with a full-time fundraising coordinator hired and state coordinators in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Arizona.

Internet popularity

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Ron Paul has dominated every major news network's post-debate, unscientific poll in the 2008 campaign

Despite current national polls showing Paul to be the favorite candidate of at most 3% of Republican leaning voters, Paul is getting disproportionately strong support on the Internet. The term "Ron Paul" has been measured as the top Internet search term by Technorati.com since May 9, 2007, which ranks popularity in the blogosphere. The U.S. News & World Report article titled "Ron Paul's Online Rise" states "Technorati spokesman Aaron Krane confirmed that, to the best of the company's knowledge, the online support for Paul is genuine. (Tech-savvy devotees occasionally attempt to enlist programs called "bots" to artificially boost their candidate on search engines, but Krane said Technorati is usually able to detect and delete the cheaters.)

Paul's standing in individuals' webpages, such as Joshua Dorkin's TimeForBlogging.com and YouTube have surged to place him well ahead of all other Republican candidates. The next closest Republican candidate, Romney, has 1,955 subscriptions. On May 20, 2007, Ron Paul overtook Obama in number of YouTube subscriptions at 5,684 and as of June 7th, Paul's YouTube subscriptions passed 15,100.

Historian and political columnist Thomas Woods asserts "the news media is now trying to keep out of the limelight the one presidential contender (Ron Paul) who has actually bucked the establishment and does something other than parrot government/media slogans." Some opinion-editorials (op-ed) pieces have commented that avoiding the large media organizations and campaigning by Internet may be beneficial.

In a poll conducted on Facebook, Paul came in second to Barack Obama among more than 17,000 votes cast.

May 3 GOP Presidential Debate

Ron Paul participated along with nine other Republican presidential candidates in a televised 2008 Republican Presidential Candidates Debate on May 3, 2007.

After the debate, Pat Buchanan told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann that Ron Paul came the closest of all the candidates to classic conservatism. Donald Luskin told CNBC that Paul was his "pro-stock market candidate."

May 15 GOP Presidential Debate

In a May 15, 2007, GOP debate in South Carolina, Paul commented that America's history of interventionism in the Middle East has led to an unpopular view of the U.S. in Middle Eastern countries. Agreeing with what has previously been asserted by the 9/11 Commission Report and the Central Intelligence Agency's specialists on al Qaeda, Paul stated that the CIA removal of an elected Iranian leader (the CIA's involvement in the 1953 military coup against the democratically elected leader of Iran Mohammed Mosaddeq in Operation Ajax) and the bombing of Iraq in the 1990s, culminating in the ongoing Iraq war, has led to increasing anti-American sentiment in the Middle East. Then he said:

They attack us because we've been over there. We've been bombing Iraq for 10 years. We've been in the Middle East [for years]. I think [Ronald] Reagan was right. We don't understand the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics. Right now, we're building an embassy in Iraq that is bigger than the Vatican. We're building 14 permanent bases. What would we say here if China was doing this in our country or in the Gulf of Mexico? We would be objecting.

Rudy Giuliani interrupted the moderator and interjected that he thought Paul was implying that America had invited the September 11, 2001, attacks:

That's really an extraordinary statement. That's an extraordinary statement, as someone who lived through the attack of September 11, that we invited the attack because we were attacking Iraq. I don't think I've heard that before, and I've heard some pretty absurd explanations for September 11.

Paul defended his previous statement, which did not mention 9/11 specifically, but did say "they attack us" and further explained:

I believe very sincerely that the CIA is correct when they teach and talk about blowback. When we went into Iran in 1953 and installed the Shah, yes there was blowback. The reaction to that was the taking of our hostages, and that persists. And if we ignore that, we ignore that at our own risk. If we think we can do what we want around the world and not incite hatred, then we have a problem. They don't come here to attack us because we're rich and we're free, they come and attack us because we're over there.

While Paul's assertions have received criticism from some pundits from the political right (particularly FOX news commentator Sean Hannity and GOP spokesman Michael Steele), other reports have found that he is factually correct. The essence of Ron Paul's argument is that there are unintended negative consequences of foreign intervention by the United States, known as blowback.

Since the debate, Ron Paul and his position have also been defended by Lew Rockwell, Pat Buchanan, Accuracy in Media, and other conservative and libertarian as well as more liberal commentators, including Joy Behar and Rosie O'Donnell on ABC's The View.

In a press release following the debate, Paul's campaign chairman Kent Snyder said in response to Giuliani, "It is clear from his interruption that former Mayor Giuliani has not read the 9/11 Commission Report and has no clue on how to keep America safe" and on May 16, during an appearance on The Situation Room with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Paul asked for an apology from Giuliani and suggested that Giuliani should read the 9/11 Commission's Report.

Former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who headed the CIA's team of bin Laden specialists for years, agreed with Paul's statements:

I thought Mr. Paul captured it the other night exactly correctly. This war is dangerous to America because it’s based, not on gender equality, as Mr. Giuliani suggested, or any other kind of freedom, but simply because of what we do in the Islamic World – because 'we’re over there,' basically, as Mr. Paul said in the debate."

Paul and Scheuer held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC entitled "Educating Rudy" in which Scheuer told the assembled press that Giuliani was wrong to try to imply that Paul had said something he had not and that he does not know much about foreign policy. The two gave Giuliani a "summer reading assignment" which included Chalmers Johnson's Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, Robert Pape's Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, The 9/11 Commission Report and Scheur's book Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror. Until Giuliani studies more about the Middle East situation, Paul said at the conference, "I don't think he's qualified to be president."

Scheuer wrote:

Last week, Representative Paul did all Americans an immense service by simply pointing out the obvious: Our Islamist enemies do not give a damn about the way we vote, think, or live... If our Islamist enemies were motivated by such things their numbers would be minuscule and they would be a sporadic lethal nuisance, not, as they are, the most serious national security threat we face today... And no matter how you view Mr. Paul’s words, you can safely take one thing to the bank. The person most shaken by Mr. Paul’s frankness was Osama bin Laden, who knows that the current status quo in U.S. foreign policy toward the Islamic world is al-Qaeda’s one indispensable ally, and the only glue that provides cohesion between and among the diverse and often fractious Islamist groups that follow its banner.

Andrew Sullivan, an early supporter of the war, responded to Paul's remarks by saying:

The question serious supporters of a real war on terror must now ask is: will continuing the fight in Iraq help reverse this trend or cement it for decades to come? Is the war making us less secure and the world much less safe? Would withdrawal or continued engagement makes things better? At the very least, it seems to me, this question should be on the table in the Iraq debate. And yet the Republicans - with the exception of Ron Paul - don't even want to talk about it. Until they do, they are not a party serious about national security.

In the debate, only Paul and John McCain would not endorse the United States using torture to obtain information from prisoners.

June 5 GOP Presidential Debate

Ron Paul participated in the June 5 debate hosted by CNN in New Hampshire. CNN gave Paul less than six minutes of airtime out of the two hours of the debate, instead focusing more on candidates Mitt Romney, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani-- with each of them receiving over 10 minutes.

According to more than 75,000 participants in an MSNBC online vote, Paul won the debate

In the debate Paul said that America’s most pressing moral issue is its adoption of a preemptive military policy, declaring it a rejection of Just War:

We in the past have always declared war in the defense of our liberties or go to aid of somebody,” he said. “But now we have accepted the principle of preemptive war — we have rejected the Just War theory of Christianity. “We have to come to our senses about this issue of war and preemption and go back to traditions and our constitution and defend our liberties and defend our rights.”

Books authored

• Challenge to Liberty. Lake Jackson, TX: Foundation for Rational Economics and Education
• Gold, Peace, and Prosperity. Lake Jackson, TX: Foundation for Rational Economics and Education ([2])
• Ten Myths About Paper Money. Lake Jackson, TX: Foundation for Rational Economics and Education
• The Case for Gold. Reprinted by Cato Institute, 1982; Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007. ISBN 0-932790-31-3. ([3])
• A Republic, If You Can Keep It
• Mises and Austrian Economics: A Personal View. Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1984.
• Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution After 200 Years. Lake Jackson, TX: Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, 1987. ([4] Book distributed with permission in 7 parts in pdf-format)
• A Foreign Policy of Freedom. Lake Jackson, TX: Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, 2007. ISBN 0-912453-00-1

External links

Official sites

• Presidential Campaign Website
  • Meetup
  • YouTube
  • MySpace
  • Facebook
  • Eventful
• U.S. House of Representatives Office of Ron Paul

Speeches, statements and writings

• Ron Paul Library index of more than 700 writings by Ron Paul
• Archives of Ron Paul articles on LewRockwell.com
• Ron Paul in "America: Freedom to Fascism" video

Documentaries, topic pages and databases

• United States Congress. "Ron Paul (id: P000583)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• On the Issues - Ron Paul issue positions and quotes
• OpenSecrets.org Congress and Presidential campaign contributions (from the Center for Responsive Politics)
• PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer - Vote 2008: Ron Paul
• Project Vote Smart - Ron Paul
• SourceWatch Congresspedia - Ron Paul
• Washington Post - Congress Votes Database: Ron Paul voting record
• Washington Post - Presidential Candidates: Ron Paul profile, finance, events
• Ron Paul at Curlie

Grassroots campaigns

• Ron Paul 2008
• Ron Paul Forum
• Ron Paul Forums
• Ron Paul Campaign Images
• Ron Paul Podcast
• Students for Ron Paul