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.
RAND PAULYou can not be a conservative if you’re going to keep promoting new programs that you’re not going to pay for.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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You can send a clear message to the establishment.
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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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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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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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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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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 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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I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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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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[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.
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No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.
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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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For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
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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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My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
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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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If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they’re contagious and you can catch it from them.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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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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We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let’s make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let’s make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.
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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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