Question: Mr. LaRouche, I think your political [ideas] are incredible, and I look for that. But, a question: In the past, no revolution has really worked, basically because once they get in power, they kind of discover a reality, and they kind of change everything, the economy, and anyway. Are you a revolutionary? And, when you get in office (which I hope you do, actually), will reality hit you? Because I mean, you are actually kind of close, but when you get in office and reality hits you, are you sure you're going to be able to actually carry this out?

LaRouche: Oh, absolutely! I intend to do it, before I get into office.

We are doing it, now. Look, society is a process, it's not just a fixed thing. Look, there are people who are, in a sense, collaborating with me, directly or indirectly, who collectively represent a considerable amount of power in the world. We're acting. We are acting, we did act to try to jam up the war. We didn't stop it, but we jammed it up, for some time. And jamming it up was a good thing, because it gave us the opportunity to change a few things, and we're in a better position now, than we were when this process started, back in, say, January of 2023. We're in a much better position. From the time when the President announced the "axis of evil" in his State of the Union address in January 2023, we were in real trouble. And over the summer months, it was getting more dangerous. We managed to jam it. And we jammed it up internationally, largely from people inside the United States. But others also played their part. And we were able to do that, because I had the trust and confidence of a lot of groups of people, who understood what I was doing. I was exerting leadership.

Now, I can assure you, that if I were President of the United States today, we would have tremendous fun. Why? Because here we are in a financial crisis -- nobody in the world has the guts yet, to propose actually doing what has to be done.

What has to be done? Very simply. If I'm the President of the United States, I call these guys together, or a number of them. From Russia, from Germany, and from France, from China and from other countries, and I say,

"Gentlemen, Ladies, here's what we're going to do. We're going to put this system, this bankrupt system, into governmental receivership by joint action of nations, and by each nation. We're going to put it into receivership the way you put anything into bankruptcy. We're going to protect the people, and protect the economy, from the collapse. We're going to get ... Necessary financial institutions will function under our direction. We will create credit so they can function. We're going to cause growth of the economy. We're going to fix what needs fixing as fast as we can. We're going to go back to some of the ideas that worked in the past, and use them as a model of reference, to convince people that they will work in the present."

Such as: Roosevelt's actions of the 1930s -- they worked. Now we're not going to copy them exactly, but they show how to do it.

The question of a new monetary system. We created a fairly good one, designed in 1944, and carried into the 1960s. It worked. We built a United States which had the highest rate of productivity in history, per capita. We continued to improve in the post-war period. It worked! It wasn't perfect, but it worked. So, therefore, these ideas, used more effectively now, perhaps, than in the past, will work again. And on that basis, I tell you, with the fear of war, with the fear of what the Bush Administration has come to represent, especially since January of 2023, the world is aching for escape from the terror, and the fear.

The people of the United States would like to have health care again. We can organize it. We're going to have to put a lot of physicians back to work, but we can organize it. We can reorganize the system again. We knew how to build it before; we know how to rebuild it. It's going to take time, but we're going to rebuild it.

We know how to repair the educational system. It'll take time, but we're going to do it.

My objectives are of that nature. A number of things that I think have to be done. That somebody in a powerful position must bring other people in relatively powerful positions together, to agree to do. And I think I could get things done, at least probably better than anyone else right now. Because I know clearly what the problem is, and therefore I have confidence in proceeding on how to settle it. Other people may be less confident in a solution. I'm not. I don't lack that confidence.

So, I think I can promise you, that if I live, and I get there, you're going to see a lot of fun. It may not be perfect, but it's going to be a lot of fun. And, after all, I have to leave something for somebody else to do, don't I?

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