The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
RAND PAULFor liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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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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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
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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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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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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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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 call myself a constitutional conservative.
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My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
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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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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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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.
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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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I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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