Rand Paul Quotes
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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 believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'
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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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In cases of rape, trying to prevent pregnancies is obviously the best thing. The morning-after pill works successfully most of the time. Ultimately we do better if we do have better education about family planning.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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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.
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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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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 think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
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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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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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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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In 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 don't associate with those people.
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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 want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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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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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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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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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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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.