The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
RAND PAULI say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
More Rand Paul Quotes
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We shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.
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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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I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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We have to think before we act.
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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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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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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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You can send a clear message to the establishment.
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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 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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I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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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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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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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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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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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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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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The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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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 never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don’t condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important.
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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism – the individual – is mightier than any collective.
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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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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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