My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
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.
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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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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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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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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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You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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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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I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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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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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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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’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they’re women, they’re in positions because they’re intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally.
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The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
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During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
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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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There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.
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It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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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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Let’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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I don’t care if you’re a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.
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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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