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online at c-span.org. monday will only see a quick call to order and recess for the day. speakers tuesday night will include ann romney and chris christie and congressman paul ryan delivering his vice presidential acceptance speech. thursday florida marco rubio will introduce mitt romney. use our online convention hub to watch convention feeds, add your comments and connect with other viewers. texas representative and 2012 presidential candidate ron paul called or supporters to push phone government reform. me held a rally in tampa, florida today. it was called, the we are the neutrally. it was held at the university of

south florida. congressman paul's remarks is about an hour. ♪[music] >> thank you very much. ♪[music]

thank you everybody. thank you.

that's very nice. thank you very much. is there anything left for me to say? this is wonderful. it's wonderful to be among friends and my family and for a good reason to promote the cause of liberty in a revolutionary era. thanks so much for being here. i was worried part of this week, saw a couple bad articles. it wasn't hurricane that i was worried about. i saw that it said revolution is over. there's going to be no revolution. paper in washington d.c., it

said the revolution will not be happening. but they " [applause]. >> we love you dr. paul! >> it is so great to come together for something so important. a lot of people say today is a very important day. i think it is. they say this convention, very important this week. indeed, it is. this election is very important. let me tell you, there's something even more important all of that, that is the cause that we're leading and the cause of liberty, the attention that we're getting right now.

[cheers]. there's been a lot of talk about whether or notly get to speak at the convention. i written that off. today i was excited. i got a call from the rnc. they said they changed their mind. everybody give me a whole area and i can say anything i want. tomorrow night. just kidding. first off, i really want to recognize our delegates, 100. i don't know how many but thank you. takes a lot of hard work and you

knew the rules better than they thought they knew the rules. but, that didn't stop them. they learned how to bend rules and break rules and now they want to rewrite the rules. [booing]. maybe they've been paying attention what's been going on in washington. they've been breaking the rules and rewriting the rules for too long. that's what we got to stop from happening. you know, people at the convention were worried just how much trouble we would cause. my advice is to stop something for the sake of stopping doesn't achieve a lot. so i've been cautious. what they found out they overstep the bound and there's a big fight going on.

we're involved in it and whole bunch of us joined us and said we've gone too far. the ron paul people are right about over stepping their bounds. it's just been great, the experience i've had these last five years. it's been a very important time. not only for me personally i think for the attention we're getting. i received a lot of compliments about it and giving some credit about it. i tell you, it takes you and on lot of other people. it's coming about. not only because i believe we're right on the issue but what is coming out right now is proof-positive that their philosophy of government whether it's foreign policy, monetary

policy or economic policy is failing and they need something different. [crowd cheering]. i have often floated about about minority and bringing about changes in that way. ultimately that minority is irate and tireless and light the fires of liberty in minds of men. that's important but ultimately numbers do count. even numbers do count when they

don't count all of those as well because we do have the numbers. for those who promote ideas ultimately have to have an influence on the prevailing attitudes of the people. that it what's happening today. the people now are waking up and they're realizing the failure of what we have and the reason that these ideas are coming about. in this primary we had close to 2 million votes. they said that doesn't swing an election. guess what for every vote that we got in the primary, let me tell you just from my personal experience traveling around the country and many people in airports, the support out there is much greater and they don't feel comfortable coming to a

republican primary so the support there i would say be two or three times as much as the number of votes we got in the primary. we have talked a lot about the excitement that the young people bring, the excitement we've had on the campuses. i asked somebody on the staff after the last campaign event on a college campus, i said how many campuses did i go to. let me tell you, they told me going to go to this number of campuses during the campus, i probably would have said there's no way you can do that. we went to 33 college campuses.

[cheering]. talked to 150,000 young people enthusiastic. were they the conservative college campuses or were the liberal college campuses. no, they were all the college campuses. they welcomed us. now, wouldn't you think there's a party that say, we have an open tent, we want new people to come in, we want to appeal to the young people. don't you think they would be begging and pleading that they come into the big tent? well, no, we'll get into the tent believe me. because we will become the tent eventually.

once they know we are the future we will know about this. the young people certainly have the enthusiasm. i think it's the enthusiasm that really energizes a campaign. it energizes not only themself and the college campuses and i maintain it will not be a true revolution unless the college campuses are alive and well with those ideas. but there has been so many times that the young people not only those of voting age but some times 13 and 14 and 15, they bring their parents to the office and have them converted into understanding what liberty is all about. young people energize a lot of other people. this to me is exciting with the energy that we have. it seems to me that they will be begging and pleading for us to

come into the party. most people in this room probably have read that book called "1984". it was required reading in high school for so many years. i figured it out. i can explain to you where the problem is. "1984", i assume everybody read it as a dire warning what could happen to a society if you're not careful. think a bunch of people read the book and thought it was a business plan and they ran for congress. so many claim they read it and they claim that they understand it but yet they do the very things that we have been

fighting against and trying to stop. during the campaign, i got a lot of advice. can you believe that? sometimes from strangers, sometimes from our enemies, sometimes from my family as well. but no, but the advice came out very well meaning individuals who were in the category of maybe mainstream republicans. they would come up and say, ron, we really like you. we like what you doing and we like what you're saying. but if you would only do one thing, if you would change one thing, boy, you would really have a lot more success. you need to change your foreign policy. [booing]. >> of course, if i didn't have the same policy that i do have, i don't believe we would be here

tonight. this is something they obviously do not understand. those who do understand it fear it because of the powerful special interest behind a foreign policy of intervention and in the military industrial complex. it's complex but they strongly resent this. but, it was mentioned already today, i mentioned it before but think it's the best test of my support coming from more so than anybody else, from the military for our foreign policy.

the subject of monetary policy comes up frequently in washington on our committee. offer an on over quite a few years. the question has always been, what will we do with a penny? they want to change it to steel. if you have a steel penny instead, we're off the gold, silver and copper and now we're on zink and we can't afford zink penny so now they want to make them out of steel. by the time you pay for labor, it cost more to make a steel penny. this was a headline that came out that said, can we save the penny? i got to thinking, they don't understand monetary policy or they wouldn't be talking that way. the biggest question we will be forced to face is can we save the dollar?

[applause]. bill passed not too long ago, you can guess i voted against it. that's that dodd-frank bill. in that bill, they gave more power to the federal reserve and they created a board of consumer financial protection bureau to protect all the consumers. they were given a task here a couple months ago. it was designed to make things more efficient. that's why this story will tell you why efficiency is not the answer to our problems. we don't want more efficient government, we want to get the government out of the business that they not suppose to be doing. this new consumer financial protection board was given a task to simplifying the applications for a mortgage loan because it's complex and now

they're more complex because they have a bubble and they don't know where the bubble came from. it was probably because they didn't fill out enough forms. they said what we need to do is simplify these forms. they went to work and they came with the solution. they proud the solution. it was 1000 pages long on how to reduce two forms to one form. all of these new regulations placed on everybody who applied for a loan. i think that will be the solution. but that isn't the solution. the solution is to get the government out of our lives and off our backs and out of our wallets. [applause] now, we are serious and we are serious in when we

have the clout, what we do is we don't tinker around with a thousand pages to simplify things. what we do, we repeal dodd-frank is what we do. another -- there was another time the republicans when they were in charge, they passed the sarbanes-oxley, cost businessmans a trillion dollars with new regulation. that was when conservatives were in charge. when we get rid of dodd-frank, we get rid of sarbanes-oxley as well. i am convinced that we're living at a time that an era is ending. this is significant because you can be depressed at times when you look at what's happened in washington, you work hard, you come close to victories, you

don't have real victories. washington is responding too slowly. the end of an era provides an opportunity. i think recently about what era are we talking about? i would say first off, in the last hundred years approximately, what about 1913, that was a beginning of an era. that was a beginning of a time where they said, you know, with the income tax and the new foreign policy we're going to have, we're going to make the world safer democracy and we're going to have a war to end all wars and we're going to have a federal reserve that's going to get rid of the business cycle. on and on. we were going to introduce this wonderful era. guess what, the era is not with us anymore. it's over and done with. we're just looking at the last vestages of a bad program

started in 1913. we will eventually get rid of the federal reserve. [applause]. also, at approximately at that same time, something else was started. that was the domination or on the coming of communism, 1917. communism was a panacea. it was all done with good intention to take care of the people.

communism lasted. 74 years and it dissipated between 1989 and 1991. people don't talk too much about communism anymore. at the same time, communism brought about when it's hard to count when it gets into hundreds and millions it's estimated about 200 million people died by people of who were able to put bad ideas out on the table and look at the tragedy of what happened. that era is over and done where. we are not going to see the world go back to that type of program again. one of the books that impressed me was d r. shaboga. i remember one line in there and things were very bad during the

revolution. she said to shaboga what a terrible time to be alive. she was absolutely right. anticipating just what was coming. think things are different now. i don't think we should be as depressed. we have more knowledge now than ever before. we also had the 1930s, continuation of the progressive era. we had the keynesian economics and the fascism of hitler. they contributed to another 25 million people that died just the fascism of europe. the 1930s didn't do us well either. that of course, when you have bad economic policy, when you get involved in a war to end wars, it's only a war to begin more wars and you end up in another world war, we end up

another world war ii and after world war ii we have international come in. we had the development of the united nations and the world bank and the i.m.f. of course they were working toward worldwide currency. the good economist, said it won't work. indeed when it fell apart, it was a very impressive day for me. like it is tonight a sunday evening, it was own a sunday evening, august 15, 1971, the monetary system collapsed. but that was predictable. that's over with and there are some, there's no doubt we like to go back to that. but it also gives us the wonderful opportunity to advance forward. more recent history, we have had the advancement of these failed policy. the project for a newer america

centric -- you already know they are a bunch of neocons running that show. they actually opened up an office in 1997. they closed their office in 2006. that doesn't mean they're gone, that doesn't mean they're not influencing most of the politicians in washington. believe me, they're losing steam. right now, the wars have been fought has given us $4 trillion worth of debt and they are unpopular and we can't afford them. the american people want us out and they want to bring the troops home! [applause].

now, if they don't listen to your shout and if they don't listen to common sense, they're going to listen to the facts of lie and the facts of life is, we can't afford it anymore. the soviets didn't leave because they had an enlightenment, they left because they were broke. they so foolishly got bogged down in afghanistan. why don't we wise up and just take care of ourselves and defend our country and not be the policeman of the world.

[applause]. these conditions have been developing over the past hundred years and now we're in the midst of a change providing an opportunity for a revolution towards liberty. this has provided some very serious problems for us. it will not be smooth sailing. but there's reason to be optimistic that we can have great achievement. but to me, the three problems that we have to face. number one, if we solved it, it probably will solve the other ones. that is the attack on personal liberty. if people truly understood what personal liberty mean that you have self-ownership and you have a natural god given right to right therefore you have right to liberty and we defend all life and in all liberty regardless of our judgment about how people are using that liberty. then we would have the natural sequence of saying if that is

the case, you have a natural right to keep the fruits of your labor and all of it. personal liberty, once again you will be able to drink raw milk. you'll be able to make robe out of hemp, you will be able to feel secure in your houses that federal government will not be able to spy on you or bust in your house without a search warrant. you will be allowed without a government permit to buy nutritional products when you please and