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If I had charge — and you don’t have to worry, it’s not gonna happen — and we had the Congress, I wouldn’t start with the Department of Education or medical care for children. I would start with the empire because that is what is the greatest threat to liberty and the financial stability to this country.
— Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), still a libertarian-leaning GOP presidential candidate for the 2008 federal election, saying he would, given the chance, radically downsize and retract the U.S. military establishment.
