The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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More Rand Paul Quotes
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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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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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How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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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’ve heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.
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[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.
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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 think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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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 read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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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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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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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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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we’re civilized people we publicly criticize that and don’t belong to those groups or associate with those people.
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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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Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.
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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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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’m not someone who’s sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.
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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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