Rand Paul Quotes
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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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The world does not have an Islam problem; the world has a dignity problem.
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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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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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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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America has much greatness left in her.
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The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.
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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 Hepatitis B vaccine is now given to newborns. We sometimes give five and six vaccines all at one time.
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I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.
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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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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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America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
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If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.
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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 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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My dad was one of only four congressmen who supported Reagan.
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I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health is a great idea.
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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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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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It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.
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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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I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.
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Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.