Rand Paul Quotes
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I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.
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I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.
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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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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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Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
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You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.
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I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.
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Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
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You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.
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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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If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.
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Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
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Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.
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Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.
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And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
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You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'
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What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
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We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.
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I give thousands of interviews, and I'm probably about as open as anybody in Washington as far as access goes, so I'll continue to do that.
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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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Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.
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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
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Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'
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There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response.