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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More Rand Paul Quotes
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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, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
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You can send a clear message to the establishment.
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How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
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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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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 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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We shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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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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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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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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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 heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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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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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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I’m not someone who’s sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.
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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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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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It’s curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you’re saving money.
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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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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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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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