Rand Paul Quotes
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.
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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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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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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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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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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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General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.
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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.
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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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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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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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The world does not have an Islam problem; the world has a dignity problem.
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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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The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
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Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
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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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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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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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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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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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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.