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.
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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You can not be a conservative if you’re going to keep promoting new programs that you’re not going to pay for.
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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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[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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[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.
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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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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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Let’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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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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I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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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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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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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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