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.
RAND PAULThe Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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You can not be a conservative if you’re going to keep promoting new programs that you’re not going to pay for.
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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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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 Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.
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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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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
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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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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 we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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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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The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
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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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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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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.
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