Thank you.

Thank you very much.

It's great to be here.

Great to see everybody.

And I guess I better start off first by congratulating Daniel MacAdams for putting this together.

Thank you.

When we were still in Congress and Daniel knew I was leaving, everybody knew I was leaving,

he came and suggested an organization called Ron Paul Institute.

So he deserves the credit.

I get a little bit, but he deserves the real credit because he's an organizer.

And anytime I needed something or had a question, I always go to him.

So he really does deserve a lot of credit.

But if somebody else in this audience, he deserves a lot of credit.

For a lot longer time than I've known Daniel.

And that's my wife Carol sitting right down here.

She always claims she knew nothing about politics.

But she was my secret weapon when I was in ordinary politics running for Congress.

So I remember one time she wanted to, and some of you even mentioned it to me since we've

been here because one of her secret weapons was, you know, they're doing, they're saying

terrible things about you.

They say you're for drugs and giving them kids and Republicans and Democrats.

And she didn't like that.

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