The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
RAND PAULYou need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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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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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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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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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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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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There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.
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You can send a clear message to the establishment.
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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 will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.
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We have to think before we act.
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The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
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The 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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We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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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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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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