The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.
RAND PAULThe power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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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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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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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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Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!
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It’s curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you’re saving money.
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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
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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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Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.
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It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
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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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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’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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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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The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.
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