I don’t want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
RAND PAULAll issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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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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No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
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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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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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Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.
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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.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me – they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are programs.
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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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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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We have to think before we act.
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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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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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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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