"Early on in my presidential campaign, people began...."

"Early on in my presidential campaign, people began describing my message and agenda as a "revolution." In a way, it is, albeit a peaceful one.  In a country with a political debate as restricted as ours, it is revolutionary to ask whether we need troops in 130 countries and whether the noninterventionist foreign policy recommended by our Founding Fathers might not be better.  It is revolutionary to ask whether the accumulation of more and more power in Washington has been good for us.  It is revolutionary to ask fundamental questions about privacy, police-state measures, taxation, social policy, and countless other matters. 

This revolution, though, is not altogether new.  It is a peaceful continuation of the American Revolution and the principles of our Founding Fathers: liberty, self-government, the Constitution, and a noninterventionist foreign policy.  That is what they taught us, and that is what we now defend."  -Page 6 of The Revolution, A Manifesto

"...the reason all these different groups are rallying...."

"...the reason all these different groups are rallying to the same banner... is that freedom has a unique power to unite us."  -Page 5 of The Revolution, A Manifesto

"I have never seen such a diverse coalition rallying to...."

"I have never seen such a diverse coalition rallying to a single banner.  Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Greens, constitutionalists, whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asian-Americans, antiwar activists, home-schoolers, religious conservatives, freethinkers- all were not only involved, but enthusiastically so.  And despite their philosophical differences in some areas, these folks typically found, to their surprise, that they rather liked each other."  -Page 4 of The Revolution, A Manifesto

"In 2006, a number of friends and colleagues...."

"In 2006, a number of friends and colleagues urged me to consider running for president. I was a reluctant candidate, not at all convinced that a sizable enough national constituency existed for a campaign based on liberty and the Constitution rather than on special-interest pandering and the distribution of loot.   Was I ever wrong."  -Page 4 of The Revolution, A Manifesto