Rand Paul Quotes
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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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For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'
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I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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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?
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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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 don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.
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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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The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress.
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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 don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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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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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 have a biology degree, okay?
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.