Quotable: Ron Paul willing to pay the price of freedom

Posted By Blake Hounshell Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - 10:32 AM Share

I guess that's the price of freedom."

That's Ron Paul's campaign spokesman Jesse Benton, commenting on news that the owner of a Nevada brothel is thinking of starting a group called "Hookers for Paul." The Republican presidential candidate and Texas congressman "finds prostitution personally morally abhorrent," Benton says, but adds, "Sometimes you have to put up with things that don't jibe with your personal view of the world."

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