Rand Paul Quotes
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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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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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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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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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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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Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
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If you go to prison, your child support adds up.
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Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.
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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, 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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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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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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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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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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Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
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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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I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
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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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Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.
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Stop spending money you don't have.
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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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I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.