Rand Paul Quotes
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I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.
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Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.
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Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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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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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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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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We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.
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When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
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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 think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.
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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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Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
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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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General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.
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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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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.
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I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.
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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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The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.