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.
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.
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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.
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Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me – they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are programs.
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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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It’s curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you’re saving money.
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If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they’re contagious and you can catch it from them.
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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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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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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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[Marco] Rubio says we should collect all Americans’ records all of the time. The Constitution says otherwise. I think they’re both wrong. I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.
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I don’t want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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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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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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