Rand Paul Quotes
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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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I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.
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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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The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
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The world does not have an Islam problem; the world has a dignity problem.
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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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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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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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Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I think my dad has helped me tremendously.
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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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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.