Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
RAND PAULIf you’re white and you’re rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you’re poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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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 have to think before we act.
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It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
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My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
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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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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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You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.
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You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to 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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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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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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