The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism – the individual – is mightier than any collective.
RAND PAULCut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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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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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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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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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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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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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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For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
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No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
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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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I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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