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.
RAND PAULMy great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
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You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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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 only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.
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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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How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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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.
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I’ve heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don’t condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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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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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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