Rand Paul Quotes
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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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You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
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Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
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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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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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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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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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We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.
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We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.
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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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Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?
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I think a lot of things could be handled locally.
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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 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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Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.
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I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
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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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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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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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Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
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Stop spending money you don't have.
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There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes, those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you lovers of liberty rise to the occasion?