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.
RAND PAULAmerica’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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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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The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.
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We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let’s make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let’s make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.
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You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
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I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don’t care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That’s always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.
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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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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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If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they’re contagious and you can catch it from them.
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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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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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The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible – the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they’re women, they’re in positions because they’re intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally.
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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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It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
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