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.
RAND PAUL[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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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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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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If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they’re contagious and you can catch it from 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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You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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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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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.
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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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We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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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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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don’t care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That’s always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.
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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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