If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
RAND PAULIf you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
RAND PAULIt’s a little different when you spend 30 years developing all these companies that we just ask [Donald Trump] to sell them. So I don’t think that’s a fair request.
RAND PAULWe 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.
RAND PAULIf 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 PAULIf someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they’re contagious and you can catch it from them.
RAND PAULIf you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
RAND PAULI 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.
RAND PAULLet’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
RAND PAULToppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.
RAND PAUL[Marco] Rubio says we should collect all Americans’ records all of the time. The Constitution says otherwise. I think they’re both wrong. I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.
RAND PAULThe fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
RAND PAULYou can send a clear message to the establishment.
RAND PAULThe power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
RAND PAULCongress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!
RAND PAULInherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me – they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are programs.
RAND PAULThere 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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