Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me – they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are programs.
RAND PAULNo Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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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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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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We shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.
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How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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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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I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.
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If you’re white and you’re rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you’re poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail.
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I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they’re women, they’re in positions because they’re intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally.
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The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
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In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we’re civilized people we publicly criticize that and don’t belong to those groups or associate with those people.
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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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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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