How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
RAND PAULThe Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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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.
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We have to think before we 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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You can send a clear message to the establishment.
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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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If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they’re contagious and you can catch it from them.
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I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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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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I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.
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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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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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[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 history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
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