Rand Paul Quotes
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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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What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
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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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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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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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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 Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.
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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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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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'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.
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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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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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The Hepatitis B vaccine is now given to newborns. We sometimes give five and six vaccines all at one time.
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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.
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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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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
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If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.
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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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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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As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.
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Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.