I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me – they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are programs.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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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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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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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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For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
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The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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[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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My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
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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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I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don’t condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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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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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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