America’s not the world’s policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act.
RAND PAULFear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.
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I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
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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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The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
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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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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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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 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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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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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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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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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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I’ve heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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