Rand Paul Quotes
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Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.
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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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The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
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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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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
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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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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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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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Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.
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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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What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
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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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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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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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The Hepatitis B vaccine is now given to newborns. We sometimes give five and six vaccines all at one time.
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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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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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Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.
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Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.
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I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they're interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet.
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America has much greatness left in her.
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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'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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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.