You can not be a conservative if you’re going to keep promoting new programs that you’re not going to pay for.
RAND PAULMy great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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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’t have it both ways. You can’t tell me that you’re taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, ‘Bring me home some bacon.’ The pig has been picked clean.
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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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I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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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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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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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we can’t separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.
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It’s a little different when you spend 30 years developing all these companies that we just ask [Donald Trump] to sell them. So I don’t think that’s a fair request.
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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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You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.
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