The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
RAND PAULThe state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
RAND PAULYou can’t have it both ways. You can’t tell me that you’re taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, ‘Bring me home some bacon.’ The pig has been picked clean.
RAND PAULIf our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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.
RAND PAULI don’t plan on being bashful.
RAND PAULBipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
RAND PAULWe don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
RAND PAULIf 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.
RAND PAULI 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.
RAND PAULYou 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.
RAND PAULUsing 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.
RAND PAULYou can not be a conservative if you’re going to keep promoting new programs that you’re not going to pay for.
RAND PAULLet’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
RAND PAULI 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.
RAND PAULWe shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.
RAND PAUL[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.
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