The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.
RAND PAULI call myself a constitutional conservative.
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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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Let’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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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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I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they’re women, they’re in positions because they’re intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally.
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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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It’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.
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We shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.
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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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The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
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The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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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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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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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 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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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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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 call myself a constitutional conservative.
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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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You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!
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And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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In 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.
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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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