We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people, so just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let’s not punish anyone.
RAND PAULAnd 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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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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The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
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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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It’s curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you’re saving money.
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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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America’s not the world’s policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act.
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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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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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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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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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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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
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