I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
RAND PAULWe should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let’s make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let’s make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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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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It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
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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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You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
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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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Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!
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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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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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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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We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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If you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health care… My staff and technicians provide it… If you have a right to health care, then you have a right to their labor.
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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 shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
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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 am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.
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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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