Rand Paul Quotes
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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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You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.
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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'm the third of five children.
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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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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
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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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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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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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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 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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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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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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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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I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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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 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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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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My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.