The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
RAND PAULIt’s curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you’re saving money.
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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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It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
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The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
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My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
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The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.
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The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we can’t separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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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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I don’t care if you’re a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.
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We have to think before we act.
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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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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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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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