I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
RAND PAULThe fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
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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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If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades.
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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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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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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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We shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.
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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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There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.
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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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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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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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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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Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.
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