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.
RAND PAULIf 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.
RAND PAULEvery child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
RAND PAULThe 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.
RAND PAULLet 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.
RAND PAULThe 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.
RAND PAULFor liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
RAND PAULThe Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
RAND PAULI 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.
RAND PAULWe don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
RAND PAULThe Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
RAND PAULYou need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
RAND PAULIn 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.
RAND PAULI call myself a constitutional conservative.
RAND PAULThe state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
RAND PAULWe shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.
RAND PAULFear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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