My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
RAND PAULThe 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.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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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 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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Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.
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If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!
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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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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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We shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.
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The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
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We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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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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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people, so just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let’s not punish anyone.
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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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