Rand Paul Quotes.
In some communities, I show up, and they say, ‘Well, we haven‘t seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.’
I don’t think you should have everybody‘s information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you’ve committed a crime.
Let’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
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.
I would rather not have contentious interviews. I’d rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don’t contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.
I don’t want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it’s a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.
The Republican platform specifically says we don’t believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.
Any time you make an analogy to horrific people in history, Mussolini or Hitler, people say, ‘Oh, you’re exaggerating, you’re talking about, it’s hyperbole.’ Maybe it is. … But I would say is that if you are not concerned that democracy could produce bad people, I don’t think you’re really thinking this through too much.
The biggest thing I’ve learned from my dad is he’s had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. That’s an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
I would argue that you’re only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.
And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I’m a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.
If you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health care… My staff and technicians provide it… If you have a right to health care, then you have a right to their labor.
Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation’s sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
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.
I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health is a great idea.
You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That’s not the way to make health care affordable.
In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days‘ worth of phone records for a single individual were not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The NSA today, though, collects hundreds of millions of phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans without an individualized warrant.
The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we can’t separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.
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.
The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.