My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
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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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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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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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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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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Let’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
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I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.
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No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
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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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Using 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.
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The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we can’t separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.
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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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It’s curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you’re saving money.
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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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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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