The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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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It’s curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you’re saving money.
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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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In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we’re civilized people we publicly criticize that and don’t belong to those groups or associate with those people.
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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.
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How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
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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.
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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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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it … But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don’t vote on this.
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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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Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.
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The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.
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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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Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.
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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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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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Let’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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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.
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You can not be a conservative if you’re going to keep promoting new programs that you’re not going to pay for.
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I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don’t care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That’s always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.
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