You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!
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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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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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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
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If you’re white and you’re rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you’re poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail.
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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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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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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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You can send a clear message to the establishment.
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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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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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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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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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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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I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.
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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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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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It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
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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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