Rand Paul Quotes
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People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.
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We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.
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Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.
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I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.
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'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.
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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.
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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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General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.
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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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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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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.
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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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Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.
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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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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
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If you go to prison, your child support adds up.
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You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
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If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.
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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
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If you refuse to acknowledge that there is any waste that can be culled from the military budget, you are a big-government conservative, and you cannot lay claim to balancing the budget.
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.