The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
RAND PAULYou know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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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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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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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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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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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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I don’t want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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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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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.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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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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You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
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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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For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
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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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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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We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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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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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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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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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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