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.
RAND PAULThe great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism – the individual – is mightier than any collective.
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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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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We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.
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You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
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My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
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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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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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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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The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
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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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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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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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No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
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