Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.
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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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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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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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 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 are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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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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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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We have to think before we act.
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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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The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.
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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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Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.
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Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!
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Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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