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 PAULIn 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.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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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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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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In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we’re civilized people we publicly criticize that and don’t belong to those groups or associate with those people.
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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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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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Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.
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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.
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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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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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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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We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people, so just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let’s not punish anyone.
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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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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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