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.
RAND PAULI’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.
RAND PAULLet 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.
RAND PAULWe all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people, so just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let’s not punish anyone.
RAND PAULI would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
RAND PAULThe Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
RAND PAULWe shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.
RAND PAULIf 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.
RAND PAULYou need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
RAND PAULThe power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
RAND PAULWe will not cut one penny from the safety net until we’ve cut every penny from corporate welfare.
RAND PAULNo president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
RAND PAULIf congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!
RAND PAULAnd when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
RAND PAULInherent 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.
RAND PAULThe state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
RAND PAULI am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.
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