Rand Paul Quotes
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Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
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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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It seems the most common thing for serial interventionists to do these days is to lob the term 'isolationist' at anyone who does not agree with their latest folly, and then set up a straw man about those people not wanting to be involved in the world.
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I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.
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Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
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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'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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You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.
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Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.
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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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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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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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The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.
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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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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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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
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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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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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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.