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.
RAND PAULToppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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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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How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
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I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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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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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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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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My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
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America’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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I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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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 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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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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