Grassroots
They form the groups. We've never organized a Meetup group, yet there's
1,100 of them. Not that we're connected to them; we make good use of them.
We say we're coming to town, and they'll get the people out. And then,
when we want to raise some money, we'll send periodic E-mails out. But
yesterday, it was all their doing. We had no idea whether they'd raise
$1,000 or a million. To get $4.3 million was pretty amazing.
U.S. News & World Report, Q&A: Presidental Candidate
Ron Paul, by Liz Halloran, Nov. 9, 2007.
We talk about it all the time—freedom brings diversity. It brings people
together. Big government divides us, and we become competitive, and we
fight over the spoils. That's why you have lobbyists up here fighting.
U.S. News & World Report, Q&A: Presidental Candidate
Ron Paul, by Liz Halloran, Nov. 9, 2007.
It's the monetary issue that has motivated me. And it's just all coming
together now. The welfare spending at home, the militarism, the empire
building is bringing us to bankruptcy. And we have a lot more inflation
than they'll admit. Here we have currency going down—that in itself is
inflation. The figures they fudge with—the CPI [consumer price index]—that
is not inflation. That is a pseudo measure of inflation. The dollar is
important. The money supply is important. But not government reports on
the CPI.
U.S. News & World Report, Q&A: Presidental Candidate
Ron Paul, by Liz Halloran, Nov. 9, 2007.