The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
RAND PAULIf 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.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.
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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 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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I don’t want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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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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We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let’s make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let’s make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.
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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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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
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My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
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I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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