Rand Paul Quotes
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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 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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My dad was one of only four congressmen who supported Reagan.
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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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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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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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We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.
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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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America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
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Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.
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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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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 Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.
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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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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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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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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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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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If you go to prison, your child support adds up.
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Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
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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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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.