Rand Paul Quotes
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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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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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If you go to prison, your child support adds up.
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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 Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.
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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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America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
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America has much greatness left in her.
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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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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 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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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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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 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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The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
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My dad was one of only four congressmen who supported Reagan.
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I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.
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It seems the most common thing for serial interventionists to do these days is to lob the term 'isolationist' at anyone who does not agree with their latest folly, and then set up a straw man about those people not wanting to be involved in the world.
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I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.
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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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Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.
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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.