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.
RAND PAULIt is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades.
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For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it … But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don’t vote on this.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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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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America’s not the world’s policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act.
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I don’t want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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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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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism – the individual – is mightier than any collective.
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I don’t care if you’re a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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