Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
RAND PAULWe should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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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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During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
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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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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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We shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.
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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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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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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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My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
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The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.
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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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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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If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they’re contagious and you can catch it from them.
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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 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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Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.
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We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let’s make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let’s make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.
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You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.
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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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