The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible – the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
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.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!
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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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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 say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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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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I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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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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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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We 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.
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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
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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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For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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