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 PAULLet’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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We have to think before we act.
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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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The 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.
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If 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.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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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 call myself a constitutional conservative.
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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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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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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
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You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.
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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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