Rand Paul Quotes
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Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
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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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America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
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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 would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
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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 live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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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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We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.
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The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.
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The world does not have an Islam problem; the world has a dignity problem.
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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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Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.
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Stop spending money you don't have.
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If you refuse to acknowledge that there is any waste that can be culled from the military budget, you are a big-government conservative, and you cannot lay claim to balancing the budget.
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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.
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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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You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
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I think a lot of things could be handled locally.
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Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Bulk collection of phone records didn't find or stop the Tsarnaev brothers from the massacre in Boston. In fact, one might argue that all of the money spent on bulk collection takes money away from human analysts that might have noticed the older brother's trip to become radicalized in Chechnya.
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I think my dad has helped me tremendously.
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You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.