Rand Paul Quotes
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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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We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.
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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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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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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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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.
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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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I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.
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If you go to prison, your child support adds up.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days' worth of phone records for a single individual were not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The NSA today, though, collects hundreds of millions of phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans without an individualized warrant.
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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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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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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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The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
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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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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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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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Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.
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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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The enemy is radical Islam. You can't get around it. And not only will I name the enemy, I will do whatever it takes to defend America from these haters of mankind.
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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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America has much greatness left in her.