For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
RAND PAULUsing taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
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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 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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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 don’t plan on being bashful.
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You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.
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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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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 state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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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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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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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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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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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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[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.
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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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Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.
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If you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health care… My staff and technicians provide it… If you have a right to health care, then you have a right to their labor.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
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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 only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.
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