Rand Paul Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
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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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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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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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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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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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Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.
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General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.
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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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I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.
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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 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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We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I agree to buy it because I like it. That is how we operate in most of rest of the marketplace other than health care.
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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 a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.
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The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.
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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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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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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.