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.
RAND PAULWe all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people, so just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let’s not punish anyone.
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[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.
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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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I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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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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The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
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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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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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The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.
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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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We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people, so just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let’s not punish anyone.
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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 you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health care… My staff and technicians provide it… If you have a right to health care, then you have a right to their labor.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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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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No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
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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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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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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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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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We have to think before we 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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I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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