Rand Paul Quotes
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The world does not have an Islam problem; the world has a dignity problem.
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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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I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.
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Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
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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 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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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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We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.
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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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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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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
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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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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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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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You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.
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I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.
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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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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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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.