Rand Paul Quotes
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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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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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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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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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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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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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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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 think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
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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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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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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 wouldn't be doing this dumb ass live-stream if I wasn't, so get over it.
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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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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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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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I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.
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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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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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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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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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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.