The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible – the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
RAND PAULIf you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
More Rand Paul Quotes
-
-
The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
RAND PAUL -
No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
RAND PAUL -
You can not be a conservative if you’re going to keep promoting new programs that you’re not going to pay for.
RAND PAUL -
We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
RAND PAUL -
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 PAUL -
The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
RAND PAUL -
Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
RAND PAUL -
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.
RAND PAUL -
America’s not the world’s policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act.
RAND PAUL -
I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
RAND PAUL -
There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.
RAND PAUL -
If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!
RAND PAUL -
We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
RAND PAUL -
If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
RAND PAUL -
We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.
RAND PAUL -
How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
RAND PAUL -
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.
RAND PAUL -
Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.
RAND PAUL -
We have to think before we act.
RAND PAUL -
I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.
RAND PAUL -
If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
RAND PAUL -
You can send a clear message to the establishment.
RAND PAUL -
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.
RAND PAUL -
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.
RAND PAUL -
Let’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
RAND PAUL -
It’s curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you’re saving money.
RAND PAUL