I don’t want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
RAND PAULThe 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 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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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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I’m not someone who’s sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.
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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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I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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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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I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.
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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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It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
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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 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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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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