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I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
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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.
Rand Paul
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I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.
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If you go to prison, your child support adds up.
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Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.
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My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating process is over, tonight, I'm happy to announce that I'm going to be supporting Governor Romney.
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After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?
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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 think a lot of things could be handled locally.
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I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
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I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.
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The enemy is radical Islam. You can't get around it. And not only will I name the enemy, I will do whatever it takes to defend America from these haters of mankind.
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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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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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Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.
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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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Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
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I don't trust President Obama with our records. I know you gave him a big hug, and if you want to give him a big hug again, go right ahead.
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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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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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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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The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.
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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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The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
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