“I think there’s an argument to be made that the issues that he is particularly (in my own personal political perspective) good on like foreign policy, like civil liberties, like drug policy reform happen to be the very issues that a president has among the most amount of unilateral control over. A president can’t alone make huge economic policy—he needs congress. For better or for worse a president can simply decide with the stroke of a pen on whether to go to war or not, and on how to use federal law enforcement agencies with respect to civil liberties. So I think there may be an understanding, a deeper understanding to say well listen, on the issues that a President can control, Ron Paul’s actually not so bad.” - David Sirota