The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we can’t separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.
RAND PAULWe will not cut one penny from the safety net until we’ve cut every penny from corporate welfare.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!
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During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
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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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We have to think before we act.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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[Marco] Rubio says we should collect all Americans’ records all of the time. The Constitution says otherwise. I think they’re both wrong. I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.
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The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.
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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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I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.
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If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they’re contagious and you can catch it from them.
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It’s curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you’re saving money.
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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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