Rand Paul Quotes
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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.
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Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in America.
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I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
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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 grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.
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I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
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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?
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What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.
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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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The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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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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Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
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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.
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The realization is dawning that government doesn't work. In Silicon Valley, they already get this. And they are bright enough to be asking what we can do to solve problems.
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I ran for office originally as part of this Tea Party Movement because we were upset with Republicans who've doubled the debt. We were upset with Republicans that bailed out the banks.
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I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.
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As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
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You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.
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The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.
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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
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You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.
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I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less than stellar human rights records, because I believe that once enslaved people taste freedom and see the products of capitalism, they will become hungry for freedom themselves.