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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.
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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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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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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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The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
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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 would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.
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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?
Rand Paul
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I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder, and I'm the only one that leads Hillary Clinton in five states that were won by President Obama. I'm a different kind of Republican.
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The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.
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One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
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Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.
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Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
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Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.
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I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.
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The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
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