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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.

Rand Paul

I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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Dignity Myself Need Thinking
Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me – they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are programs.
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Absence Book Choice Development History Prison Program Technology
I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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Novel Reading Young
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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Equality Intelligence Intelligent Journey Position Thinking Woman
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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Country Hate Money Myself Quit Thinking
The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
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Country Government History Oppression
You can not be a conservative if you’re going to keep promoting new programs that you’re not going to pay for.
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Pay Program Yourself
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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Connection Money Punishment Tax Work
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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Civilization Freedom Liberty Party Right Time
Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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Appearance Children Deserve Education Help Identity Race Right
Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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Money Protection
I don’t plan on being bashful.
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Myself One Liner Planning
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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Act Believe Beyond Children Death Effort Guard Right Risk Safety Stop World Wrong
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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End Friendship Hate Military Nation Save
All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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Address Crime Issues
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism – the individual – is mightier than any collective.
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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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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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