If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they’re contagious and you can catch it from them.
RAND PAULThe state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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No 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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We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we’ve cut every penny from corporate welfare.
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If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!
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It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
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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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How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
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It’s curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you’re saving money.
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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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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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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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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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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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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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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
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You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
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It’s a little different when you spend 30 years developing all these companies that we just ask [Donald Trump] to sell them. So I don’t think that’s a fair request.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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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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Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.
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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’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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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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Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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