Rand Paul

Politician

1963-01-07

Quotes by Rand Paul

• 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.

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• It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

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• 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.

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• Stop spending money you don't have.

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• I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.

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• The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

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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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• Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.

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• Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

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• The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.

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• I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

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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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• Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

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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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• The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

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• I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

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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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• In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.

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• Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

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• Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.

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