Rand Paul Quotes
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I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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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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Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.
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We woke up one day, and Pakistan had nuclear weapons.
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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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I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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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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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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I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.
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Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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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 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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I'm the third of five children.
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Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.