I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
RAND PAULAmerica’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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We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we’ve cut every penny from corporate welfare.
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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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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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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
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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 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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We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible – the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
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You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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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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I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.
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We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people, so just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let’s not punish anyone.
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