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.
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.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
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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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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
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I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.
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I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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I don’t care if you’re a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
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It’s a little different when you spend 30 years developing all these companies that we just ask [Donald Trump] to sell them. So I don’t think that’s a fair request.
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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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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
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We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we’ve cut every penny from corporate welfare.
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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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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don’t condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important.
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During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
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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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I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
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