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 PAULWe have to think before we act.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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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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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 think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.
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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades.
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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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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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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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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
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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’ve heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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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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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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