Rand Paul Quotes
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The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court.
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.
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I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.
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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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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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The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed; socialism doesn't work.
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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
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Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
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Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.
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In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.