All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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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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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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I’m not someone who’s sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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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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If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they’re contagious and you can catch it from them.
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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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We have to think before we act.
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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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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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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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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism – the individual – is mightier than any collective.
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