Rand Paul Quotes
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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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You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
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For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'
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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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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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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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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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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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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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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
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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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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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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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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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How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.
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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'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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I'm the third of five children.
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Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.
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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, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.