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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More Rand Paul Quotes
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The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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I’ve put pencil to paper… and I’ve said I would cut spending, and I’ve said exactly where. Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
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My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.
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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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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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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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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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The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible – the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
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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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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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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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