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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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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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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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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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What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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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 believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.
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We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
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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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Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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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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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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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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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'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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Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
Rand Paul