Let’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
RAND PAUL[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.
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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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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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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We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we’ve cut every penny from corporate welfare.
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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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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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In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we’re civilized people we publicly criticize that and don’t belong to those groups or associate with those people.
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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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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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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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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
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The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.
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We shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.
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