s. >> i like pbs, i like big bird and bert and ernie. going to have to get used to corn flakes. >> reporter: from corn flakes to the constitution, ron paul has what we like to call a message machine. >> the principles of liberty, personal liberty, the cause of liberty is on a roll, let me tell you that. >> and the only candidate who consistent consistently pre-empts your dÉÀa vu. >> i have said it in every stump speech i have given. >> so the next time you hear a politician belts out a one liner or rattle off a joke, think back, maybe you have heard that one before. >> thank you so much, candy. watch candy crowley every sunday morning on state of the union 9:00 a.m. eastern time. >>> here's a look at where the 2012 contenders will be this week. president obama has white house meetings on monday, on tuesday he welcomes white house prime minister david cameron. and on wednesday, the president will travel to -- he'll host a formal state dinner

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in recounting the story of the cia analyst ernie all may who, in the 1970's, religion oas beig very important in iran and said we had to look of this. but also he was ridiculed. how much in u.s. foreign policy shaped by a kind of widely shared secularism and they establishment. neither religion is irrational or irrelevant. is that still true today? >> we will try to make our answers more brief. [laughter] there is an issue of what is secularism. i had a conversation with condoleezza rice. i asked her, do you consider yourself a secularist? she said, no, i am a religious person. the french have a view that the state has to sit on religion to make sure that religion does not intrude on public life. that is a model that i do not buy. that is a model that i deny it -- that i do not think our country buys. and equidistance of all religions, but it tolerance of all religions. -- but a tolerance of all religions. i think the political establishment is somewhere between the american model and the french model. i think the american people are between the american model and perhaps something with a mor

in recounting the story of the cia analyst ernie all may who, in the 1970's, religion as being very importantof this. but also he was ridiculed. how much in u.s. foreign policy shaped by a kind of widely shared secularism and they establishment. neither religion is irrational or irrelevant. is that still true today? >> we will try to make our answers more brief. [laughter] there is an issue of what is secularism. i had a conversation with condoleezza rice. i asked her, do you consider yourself a secularist? she said, no, i am a religious person. the french have a view that the state has to sit on religion to make sure that religion does not intrude on public life. that is a model that i do not buy. that is a model that i deny it -- that i do not think our country buys. and equidistance of all religions, but it tolerance of all religions. -- but a tolerance of all religions. i think the political establishment is somewhere between the american model and the french model. i think the american people are between the american model and perhaps something with a more active place for religion. i th