If I have a weakness, it’s that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.
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.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.
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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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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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I’ve put pencil to paper… and I’ve said I would cut spending, and I’ve said exactly where. Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
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In 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.
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Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!
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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
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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.
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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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