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.
RAND PAULIf you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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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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How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
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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 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 Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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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 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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I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don’t care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That’s always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.
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You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
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I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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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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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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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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Using 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.
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