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.
RAND PAULThe Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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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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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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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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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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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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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.
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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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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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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.
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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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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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Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!
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The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible – the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
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