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 PAULIf someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they’re contagious and you can catch it from them.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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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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Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.
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You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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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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The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.
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No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
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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 read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
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I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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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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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’m not someone who’s sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.
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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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