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.
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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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Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!
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The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
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It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
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Let’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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I’m not someone who’s sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.
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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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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
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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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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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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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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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You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don’t condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important.
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