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.
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.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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[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.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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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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For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
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We shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.
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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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It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
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I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.
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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
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You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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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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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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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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