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I don’t want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

Rand Paul

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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Benefit Pay Rich Security Social
I’ve heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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Children Injury Mental Talk Tragedy Walk Wound
The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
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It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
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Attack Feeling Government Impossible Target
Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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Afraid Freedom Security Trade Willing Yourself
The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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Dignity Myself Need Thinking
If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they’re women, they’re in positions because they’re intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally.
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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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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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There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.
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Build Growth Improvement Loan Money Progress Wasted
In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it … But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don’t vote on this.
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The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.
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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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We shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.
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