You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
RAND PAULYou need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
RAND PAULI’m not someone who’s sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.
RAND PAULWe have to think before we act.
RAND PAULIt is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
RAND PAULInherent 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.
RAND PAULWe don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
RAND PAULLet 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.
RAND PAULIn a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we’re civilized people we publicly criticize that and don’t belong to those groups or associate with those people.
RAND PAULIf you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
RAND PAULNo Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
RAND PAULI call myself a constitutional conservative.
RAND PAULThe great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism – the individual – is mightier than any collective.
RAND PAUL[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.
RAND PAULI’ve heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
RAND PAULYou 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.
RAND PAULThe Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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