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Rand Paul Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.
I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it.
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.
I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees ... But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.
If there were an ounce of courage in this body I would be joined by other senators ... saying they will not tolerate this.
I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.
I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.
What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
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.
We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.
I would have never released the sanctions [for Iran] before there was consistent evidence of compliance.
When we toppled [Muammar] Gadhafi in Libya, I think that was a mistake. I think ISIS grew stronger, we had a failed state, and we were more at risk.
William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.
Still people want to topple [Bashar] Assad. And then there will be chaos, and I think ISIS will then be in charge of Syria.
The Hepatitis B vaccine is now given to newborns. We sometimes give five and six vaccines all at one time.
What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.
What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone.
I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
I'm a Reagan conservative. Reagan did negotiate with the Soviets. But you have to negotiate from a position of strength.
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.
I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
Well, let's be clear I'm the only one on the stage who actually has a five-year budget that balances.
I think we're never fully protected, but I think we need to do everything we can to stop threats to us.
Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
We didn't create ISIS - ISIS created themselves, but we will stop them, and one of the ways we stop them is by not funding them, and not arming them.
Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.
It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.
The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.
The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.
I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.
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.
After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?
Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.
What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.