Freedom Is a Young Idea and We're Throwing It Away - Flashback 2011

Freedom Is a Young Idea and We're Throwing It Away - Flashback 2011

Dec. 31, 2023

Ron Paul Liberty Report

Judy Woodruff sat down with Texas Rep. Ron Paul Wednesday to discuss his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination and the ongoing debt-ceiling negotiations.

The interview is the first in a series of conversations with GOP contenders seeking to take on President Obama in the 2012 election.

JUDY WOODRUFF:

You're running against a long list of Republicans seeking the presidential – the Republican presidential nomination, many of them very conservative – one in particular, Michele Bachmann, appealing to the tea party. Why are you more qualified than any of them?

REP. RON PAUL:

I see them as defending the status quo much more so than I do because, you know, if you look at my foreign policy, nobody's coming close, although they're getting more sympathetic. I want to bring all the troops home. When it comes to personal liberties and what's going on at our airports, I don't like the Patriot Act, and they tend to support the Patriot Act. When it comes to monetary policy, they try to avoid it , yet money is one-half of all our transactions. We're in a mess; so I concentrate a whole lot on the Federal Reserve and monetary policy. And of course, the spending is big issue with me, but it's been that way for a long time.

JUDY WOODRUFF:

Finally, Congressman, you look healthy. You certainly keep up a vigorous schedule. You would be 77 years old if you were elected president upon taking office, which is quite a bit older than the oldest president upon taking office, Ronald Reagan. Is age at all a factor for you in this campaign?

REP. RON PAUL:

I think it is. I think age is very important, and sometimes I meet people when they're 45, and they're very old. And I think it's the age of the ideas a person's presenting, and is that person able to present these ideas? Freedom is a young idea. It's only been tested for a couple hundred years. And we had a taste of it, and we're throwing it away.

But what I see others are doing, the others, especially – and many of the other candidates, they have old ideas. It's totalitarian, it's the control of government, governments policing the world, militarism, telling people how to run their lives, running the economy, telling people what they can put in their mouths and whether or not they can even drink raw milk. It's just – it's just absolutely out of control.

But the idea that individuals are free, that they have a natural right to their life and the liberty, they ought to be able to keep the fruits of their labor, that is a young idea. So I would say, people ought to go with a young idea and somebody that can express them. And interestingly enough, it's the young people that fully endorse my campaign.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ron-paul-freedom-is-a-young-idea-and-we-re-throwing-it-away

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