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Rand Paul

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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Act Blame Myself Patriot People Reading Vote
Let’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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Benefit Pay Rich Security Social
If I have a weakness, it’s that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.
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Children Live Myself Play Rule Weakness
If 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.
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Goodness Identity Poor Prison Rich Time White
Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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Liberty Power Privacy Suffering
We shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.
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Country Fear Freedom Liberty Nation Right
Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.
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Motivational People Vote Yourself
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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Care Democracy Government Politics Wrong
The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.
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No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
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Execution Judgement Right
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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Live Myself People Talk Travel Work
All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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Address Crime Issues
The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we can’t separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.
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End Friendship Hate Military Nation Save
It’s curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you’re saving money.
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Funny Money Yourself
[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.
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We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let’s make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let’s make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.
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