Rand Paul Quotes
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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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As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.
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I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.
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No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.
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I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.
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I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
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I'm the third of five children.
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My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.
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For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
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People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.
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You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.