We shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.
RAND PAULIn 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.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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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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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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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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There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.
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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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I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.
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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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Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!
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If you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health care… My staff and technicians provide it… If you have a right to health care, then you have a right to their labor.
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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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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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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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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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