Rand Paul Quotes
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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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In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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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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Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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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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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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I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
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I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
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I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
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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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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
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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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Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.
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I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.
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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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We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
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If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat?