If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
RAND PAULThe fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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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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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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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
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There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.
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I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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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!
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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 are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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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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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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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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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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I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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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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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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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.
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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 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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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.
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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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Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!
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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.
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