It’s curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you’re saving money.
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 will not cut one penny from the safety net until we’ve cut every penny from corporate welfare.
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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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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
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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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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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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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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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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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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they’re women, they’re in positions because they’re intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally.
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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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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism – the individual – is mightier than any collective.
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