Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.
RAND PAULToppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.
RAND PAULDuring the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
RAND PAULThere 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.
RAND PAULWe don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
RAND PAULI call myself a constitutional conservative.
RAND PAULIt is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
RAND PAULThe Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
RAND PAULThe history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
RAND PAULLet’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
RAND PAUL[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.
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 PAULYou 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.
RAND PAULYou know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
RAND PAULI don’t want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
RAND PAULBipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
RAND PAULYou can send a clear message to the establishment.
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