My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
RAND PAULAre you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
More Rand Paul Quotes
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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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[Marco] Rubio says we should collect all Americans’ records all of the time. The Constitution says otherwise. I think they’re both wrong. I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.
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We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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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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I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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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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For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
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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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[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.
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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 can’t have it both ways. You can’t tell me that you’re taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, ‘Bring me home some bacon.’ The pig has been picked clean.
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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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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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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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