It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
RAND PAULMy great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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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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How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
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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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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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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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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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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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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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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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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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Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.
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I’m not someone who’s sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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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 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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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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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.
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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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If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they’re contagious and you can catch it from them.
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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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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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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[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.
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