The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
RAND PAULAll issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they’re contagious and you can catch it from them.
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If I have a weakness, it’s that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.
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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades.
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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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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!
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We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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I don’t want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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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 is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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