Rand Paul Quotes
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I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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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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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 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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What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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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'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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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 West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.
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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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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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The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress.
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Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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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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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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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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My dad was one of only four congressmen who supported Reagan.
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America has much greatness left in her.
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Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.
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The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.
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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.