Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
RAND PAULThe Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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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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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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You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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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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You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
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The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
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The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.
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Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.
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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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We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.
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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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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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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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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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I’ve put pencil to paper… and I’ve said I would cut spending, and I’ve said exactly where. Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
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