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 PAULLet 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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We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we’ve cut every penny from corporate welfare.
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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
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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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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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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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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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And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
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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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You 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.
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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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It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
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I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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