Rand Paul Quotes
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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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 think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
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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'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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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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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'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'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 have a biology degree, okay?
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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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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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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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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 want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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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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My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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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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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.
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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.