The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible – the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
RAND PAULWe should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
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We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let’s make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let’s make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.
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Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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You can’t have it both ways. You can’t tell me that you’re taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, ‘Bring me home some bacon.’ The pig has been picked clean.
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I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don’t care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That’s always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.
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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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If I have a weakness, it’s that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.
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I’ve put pencil to paper… and I’ve said I would cut spending, and I’ve said exactly where. Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
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It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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