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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.

Rand Paul

[Marco] Rubio says we should collect all Americans’ records all of the time. The Constitution says otherwise. I think they’re both wrong. I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.
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Constitution Defeat Terroism Thinking Time Wrong
We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we’ve cut every penny from corporate welfare.
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Business Money Oneself Safety
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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Act Blame Myself Patriot People Reading Vote
I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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Force Myself Return Support
Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.
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Motivational People Vote Yourself
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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Breathe Enough Way Food Government Home Tax
I’ve heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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America’s not the world’s policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act.
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Act Believe Beyond Children Death Effort Guard Right Risk Safety Stop World Wrong
The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
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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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Need People Support Yourself
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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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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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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Celebration Funny Party Sick Yourself
[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.
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Himself Terrorism World
Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!
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Law Politics Selfish
I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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