I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
RAND PAULAre you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
More Rand Paul Quotes
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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
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We have to think before we act.
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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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I’ve put pencil to paper… and I’ve said I would cut spending, and I’ve said exactly where. Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
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We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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America’s not the world’s policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act.
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We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we’ve cut every penny from corporate welfare.
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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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[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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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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I’m not someone who’s sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.
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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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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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Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.
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I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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