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We had people coming to our Foreign Relations Committee and saying, "Oh, we need to arm the allies of Al Qaida." They are still saying this. It is a crazy notion. This is the biggest debate we should be having is is regime change a good idea; has it been a good idea. -- Rand Paul
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I hate that Mosul is falling, but I also think that for 10 years we have supplied the Iraqis and they can't stand up and do anything to defend their country, and it is all up to us? -- Rand Paul
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We have a lot of politicians who have really small brains and really big hearts. -- Rand Paul
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The one way, possibly, out of this is for [Bashar] Assad to abdicate and plead, perhaps to Russia or somewhere else. Would save another wave of civilian casualties if we could get him to abdicate. -- Rand Paul
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There is often variations of evil on both sides of the war. What we have to decide is whether or not regime change is a good idea. It's what the neoconservatives have wanted. It's what the vast majority of those on the stage want. -- Rand Paul
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We need a revival in the country," Paul said. "We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, 'reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform.' -- Rand Paul
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I am encouraged President Obama now says he will fulfill his constitutional obligation to seek authorization for any potential military action in Syria. This is the most important decision any President or any Senator must make, and it deserves vigorous debate -- Rand Paul
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I worry that the Senate is working to consider a series of little-noticed provisions in comprehensive immigration reform that may provide a pathway to a national ID card for all individuals present in the United States - citizens and noncitizens, -- Rand Paul
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I support local solutions to illegal immigration as protected by the 10th amendment. I support making English the official language of all documents and contracts.. -- Rand Paul
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I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate. -- Rand Paul
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What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights. -- Rand Paul
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We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let's make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let's make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows. -- Rand Paul
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Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history? -- Rand Paul
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Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot. -- Rand Paul
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When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage. -- Rand Paul
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To me, there is no greater threat than our debt. I'm the only fiscal conservative on the stage because I'm willing to hold the line on all spending. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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To put everyone in government housing and food stamps and bring them in from around the world I think is a mistake. To give of your own money, I've given to my church. My church has helped people that came from Bosnia. That's a good thing. -- Rand Paul
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I think we're never fully protected, but I think we need to do everything we can to stop threats to us. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them. -- Rand Paul
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We have to have a more realistic foreign policy and not a utopian one where we say, oh, we're going to spread freedom and democracy, and everybody in the Middle East is going to love us. They are not going to love us. -- Rand Paul
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We shouldn't have a program where we just say that we're going to take care of the world's refugees. Nobody in the Middle East is doing anything. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait - all the Gulf nations are doing nothing. -- Rand Paul
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities. -- Rand Paul
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Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day. -- Rand Paul
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Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well. -- Rand Paul
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Really, while gas is an awful thing to watch - the death is painful - to even watch these deaths - it's also bad to die from a bullet, a hand grenade, or a machete. -- Rand Paul
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Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement. -- Rand Paul
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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.' -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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The president wants more tax money in Washington. I want more money left in the communities, particularly poor communities, particularly communities that have high unemployment. -- Rand Paul
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I have a biology degree, okay? -- Rand Paul
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I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad. -- Rand Paul
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No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner -- Rand Paul
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If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people. -- Rand Paul
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I think the vast majority of the American people say you shouldn't be able to collect my phone records if I'm not suspicious, if you don't have probable cause. -- Rand Paul
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We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War II, -- Rand Paul
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I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress. -- Rand Paul
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I'm not opposed to letting people work and labor in our country, but we shouldn't provide an easy route to citizenship. We're the only country I know of where a person can come in illegally and that baby becomes a citizen and I think that should stop also. -- Rand Paul
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I think it's a conundrum. If we have no laws on this, people take it to one extension further, does it have to be humans, you know? -- Rand Paul
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I'm being unfairly targeted by a bunch of hacks and haters. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets. -- Rand Paul
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level. -- Rand Paul
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We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare. -- Rand Paul
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On the Gang of Eight bill, there was no provisions really for extra scrutiny or safety for refugees. At the time the bill came up, two Iraqi refugees came to my home town, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Their fingerprints were on a bomb from Iraq. They were in the database, but we didn't pick them up. -- Rand Paul
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The callous use of general warrants and the disregard for the Bill of Rights must end. Forcing us to choose between our rights and our safety is a false choice and we are better than that as a nation and as a people. -- Rand Paul
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I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us. -- Rand Paul
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Any time someone tries to tell you that metadata is 'meaningless, don't worry, it's just who you call, it's just phone records, it's not a big deal' - realize we kill people based on metadata. So they must be pretty darn certain that they think they know something based on metadata. -- Rand Paul
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What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget. -- Rand Paul
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do. -- Rand Paul
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I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he fled, [because] that is what he faced. -- Rand Paul
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If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat? -- Rand Paul
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As our voices rise in protest, the NSA monitors your every phone call. if you have a cell phone, you are under surveillance. I believe what you do on your cell phone is none of their damn business, -- Rand Paul
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Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty. -- Rand Paul
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Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam. -- Rand Paul
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I think what we've had in the past is the government has said, "Well, we need to collect the whole haystack." And the haystack is Americans' privacy. Every Americans' privacy. We have to give up all of our privacy. -- Rand Paul
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Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade. -- Rand Paul
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Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people. -- Rand Paul
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Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back. -- Rand Paul
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These attacks prove one thing for certain: the liberal establishment is desperate to keep leaders like me out of office, and we are sure to hear more wild, dishonest smears during this campaign. -- Rand Paul
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We live in a world, a medieval type of world, where someone can accuse you - through gossip and hearsay, and all of a sudden you're supposed to respond to specific charges from people you don't know, are not aware of who these people are, and you're supposed to respond to their specific allegations? -- Rand Paul
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I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That's always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy. -- Rand Paul
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To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business. -- Rand Paul
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Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant. -- Rand Paul
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I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime ... unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party. And it has to be a transformation. Not a little tweaking at the edges. -- Rand Paul
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Should it be prohibited for private entities such as a church, bed-and-breakfast or retirement neighborhood that doesn't want noisy children? Absolutely not. Decisions concerning private property and associations should in a free society be unhindered. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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I was told I got 10 measly minutes, but just in case, I brought 13 hours worth of material. -- Rand Paul
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity. -- Rand Paul
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Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me - they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are pogroms. -- Rand Paul
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No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court. -- Rand Paul
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When I asked the president [Barack Obama], can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It's an easy question. It should have been a resounding and unequivocal no. The president's response, he hasn't killed anyone yet. -- Rand Paul
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Al Qaeda has been placed on the run, but not destroyed. -- Rand Paul
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I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic rebels to be in charge of Syria either. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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Marriage has always been a state and local issue. -- Rand Paul
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We have to think before we act. -- Rand Paul
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For example, the use of chemical weapons [in Syria]- some on the Democrat side have said well, this encourages the North Koreans to use chemical weapons against our troops. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair. -- Rand Paul
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We should understand the limitations of war. We should understand the sacrifices our young men and women go through losing lives and limbs. And they should only do it for the highest of purposes. -- Rand Paul
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I am pleased though that there's a possibility of a diplomatic solution [in Syria]. I remain somewhat skeptical, but I am pleased that it's a possibility and I think people like myself who've been arguing for delaying this bombing, have allowed this diplomatic possibility to occur. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation. -- Rand Paul
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I think you'll find that these are measures that have great bipartisan support, and so I expect, not only did we do well in the primary, I think we'll win by a wide margin in the fall because we're going to get a lot of independents and conservative Democrats coming to us. -- Rand Paul
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We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves. -- Rand Paul
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Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants. If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you. -- Rand Paul
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I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in. -- Rand Paul
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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? -- Rand Paul
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If you're white and you're rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you're poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail. -- Rand Paul
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Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws. -- Rand Paul
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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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If I have a weakness, it's that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules. -- Rand Paul
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Benjamin Netanyahu said that ultimately, they will be stronger when they're independent. My position is exactly the same.We shouldn't borrow money from China to send it anywhere, but why don't we start with eliminating aid to our enemies. -- Rand Paul
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As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances. -- Rand Paul
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I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends; -- Rand Paul
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The government has investigated our program of collecting through a generalized fashion, everyone's phone records in the country. And they found that no terrorist case has been thwarted through this. -- Rand Paul
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I don't think we're doing an adequate vetting process of those who are coming to our country. -- Rand Paul
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Join us in the fight to defeat the Washington machine. It's fun and easy to get started. You can make a difference and change the direction of our country! Join today. -- Rand Paul
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I'm the third of five children. -- 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. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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Out of regime change you get chaos. From the chaos you have seen repeatedly the rise of radical Islam. So we get this profession of, oh, my goodness, they want to do something about terrorism and yet they're the problem because they allow terrorism to arise out of that chaos. -- Rand Paul
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In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people. -- Rand Paul
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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works. -- Rand Paul
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone. -- Rand Paul
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2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time. -- Rand Paul
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Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear ... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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Unless you really stand for something, people aren't motivated to go out and vote for you. -- Rand Paul
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One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white. -- Rand Paul
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We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS. -- Rand Paul
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Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health. -- Rand Paul
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Nobody ever was fired for 9/11. Instead of firing the people who didn't do a good job, we gave them medals. The guy who did a good job, I don't know what happened to him. And what we did was we decided we'd just collect everybody's information. That we'd sort of scrap the Bill of Rights. -- Rand Paul
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You wonder why your government's completely broken? We lurch from deadline to deadline, and it's on purpose really. We do deadline to deadline because ... 'we've got to go. It's spring break, we're going to be late for spring break, and we've got to go, so we've got to finish this up before we go.' -- Rand Paul
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records. -- Rand Paul
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I think we've made the collection haystack so big, no one's ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause. -- Rand Paul
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits. -- Rand Paul
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry. -- Rand Paul
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America's not the world's policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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Many states and even many people who are in support of the death penalty question their support of the death penalty because of the imperfection of our courts. Through DNA testing, we don't always get it right, even with that. -- Rand Paul
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I'm a Reagan conservative. Reagan did negotiate with the Soviets. But you have to negotiate from a position of strength. -- Rand Paul
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It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money. -- Rand Paul
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration. -- Rand Paul
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The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history. -- Rand Paul
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Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.' -- Rand Paul
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The other thing I said is the great irony is you will be back fighting against your own weapons. Had [Bashar] Assad been bombed when he used chemical weapons two years ago, ISIS would be in charge of all of Syria now. -- Rand Paul
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We need a Republican Party that shows up on the South side of Chicago and shouts at the top of our lungs, 'We are the party of jobs and opportunity! The GOP is the ticket to the middle class. -- Rand Paul
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I think a lot of things could be handled locally. -- Rand Paul
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You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out. -- Rand Paul
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I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked. -- Rand Paul
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I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes. -- Rand Paul
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I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities. -- Rand Paul
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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states. -- Rand Paul
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As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes. -- Rand Paul
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid. -- Rand Paul
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security? -- Rand Paul
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We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting. -- Rand Paul
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I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees ... But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution. -- Rand Paul
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I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them. -- Rand Paul
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection. -- Rand Paul
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party. -- Rand Paul
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Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order. -- Rand Paul
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die. -- Rand Paul
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I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership. -- Rand Paul
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The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action. -- Rand Paul
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace. -- Rand Paul
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past. -- Rand Paul
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After ensuring border security, I then would normalize the status of 11 million undocumented citizens so they can join the work force and pay taxes ... I would normalize them at a rate of about two million per year. -- Rand Paul
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America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM. -- Rand Paul
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I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are. -- Rand Paul
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You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president. -- Rand Paul
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The 11 million, I think, are never going home, don't need to be sent home, and I would incorporate them into our society by giving them work visas and making them taxpayers. -- Rand Paul
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I'll tell you what a weakness is of this country [the USA]: there are a lot of people who are sick and tired because Washington does not play by the same rules that the American people have to play by. -- Rand Paul
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag. -- Rand Paul
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We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system. -- Rand Paul
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I think if we want to defeat terrorism, I think if we truly are sincere about defeating terrorism, we need to quit arming the allies of ISIS. If we want to defeat terrorism, the boots on the ground - the boots on the ground need to be Arab boots on the ground. -- Rand Paul
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Every gun regulation that President [Barack] Obama has advocated for, California has already. And it didn't stop terrorism. -- Rand Paul
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Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -- Rand Paul
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You either believe in the Constitution, or you don't. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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When you ask yourself, whoever you are, that think you're going to support Donald Trump, think, do you believe in the Constitution? Are you going to change the Constitution? -- Rand Paul
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Well, let's be clear I'm the only one on the stage who actually has a five-year budget that balances. -- Rand Paul
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I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman. -- Rand Paul
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged. -- Rand Paul
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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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I've thought for some time that the answer to a lot of problems in the Middle East, including Iran, include an active role with Russia. And I think, in some ways, we've taken show votes in the U.N. that are guaranteed to failure before we take them. -- Rand Paul
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How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked. -- Rand Paul
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I will advocate for Kentucky's interests, -- Rand Paul
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines. -- Rand Paul
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Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people. -- Rand Paul
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I think that, most importantly, when I see issues of war, I see them in a personal vein, and I am reluctant to go to war unless there's a real, valid American interest because I've seen the wounded soldiers. -- Rand Paul
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The source of the problem is in Syria. Raqqa is the headquarters of ISIL, which is a lethal terrorist organization, now army. If you don't go after them over there, they're going to hit us over here, and there's no substitute for that in my view. -- Rand Paul
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In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.' -- Rand Paul
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Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us. -- Rand Paul
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives. -- Rand Paul
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The Life at Conception Act legislatively declares what most Americans believe and what science has long known - that human life begins at the moment of conception and, therefore, is entitled to legal protection from that point forward. -- Rand Paul
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Perhaps it is time to be more careful what we ask government to do, and where we allow it to become part of our lives. -- Rand Paul
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Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left. -- Rand Paul
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Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.' -- Rand Paul
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I don't plan on being bashful. -- Rand Paul
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire. -- Rand Paul
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I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future. -- Rand Paul
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We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I agree to buy it because I like it. That is how we operate in most of rest of the marketplace other than health care. -- Rand Paul
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People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. -- Rand Paul
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After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world? -- Rand Paul
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles. -- Rand Paul
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I think there is some overreach in the sense that the EPA now says: if Congress doesn't pass greenhouse emissions regulations or testing, we'll simply do it on our own. I think that's an arrogance of a regulatory body run amok. -- Rand Paul
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If Americans were attacked, it does change the equation. The problem is, is that with regard to this is there've been horrendous killings of civilians with conventional weapons. -- Rand Paul
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I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere. -- Rand Paul
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If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn't have expected to be shot. -- Rand Paul
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There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels. -- Rand Paul
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. -- Rand Paul
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What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival. -- Rand Paul
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I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form. -- Rand Paul
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The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the revolution over! -- Rand Paul
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I've introduced legislation to say, "For right now, let's stop it," from about 34 countries. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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If you go to prison, your child support adds up. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government. -- Rand Paul
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If you have 'too big to fail' for cities or for states, and they believe they'll be bailed out, they'll continue to make unwise decisions. -- Rand Paul
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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Well, there's 10 - there's 10 different - there's 10 different titles, you know, to the Civil Rights Act, and nine out of 10 deal with public institutions and I'm absolutely in favor of. One deals with private institutions, and had I been around, I would have tried to modify that. -- Rand Paul
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Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors. -- Rand Paul
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Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with. -- Rand Paul
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I don't program or code or anything like that. -- Rand Paul
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I'm not accusing anybody of being [Hitler], -- Rand Paul
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I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them. -- Rand Paul
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Freedom is popular. Bring it on. -- Rand Paul
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The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age. -- Rand Paul
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For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way. -- Rand Paul
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I think that we have to be very careful about who comes here from the Middle East. -- Rand Paul
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I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying. -- Rand Paul
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I think there's a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don't think race is always the reason. -- Rand Paul
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I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they're women, they're in positions because they're intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally. -- Rand Paul
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America has much greatness left in her. -- Rand Paul
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I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I think there are 48 federal agencies that have SWAT teams. -- Rand Paul
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The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war. -- Rand Paul
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I've never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on. If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash, I don't care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him. -- Rand Paul
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Most police officers are good cops and good people. -- Rand Paul
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The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice. -- Rand Paul
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I love the Mexican people; I respect the Mexican leaders - but the leaders are much sharper, smarter and more cunning than our [American] leaders. -- Rand Paul
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American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success. -- Rand Paul
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If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS. -- Rand Paul
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, 'Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is warming.' The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and you're going to say that we had four hurricanes and so it proves a theory? -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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[I]f 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. -- Rand Paul
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Gun control is not part of a strategy to defeat radical Islam or take ISIL down. However it is a problem back here at home. A million people have been adjudicated a danger to themselves or to others at the state court level. -- Rand Paul
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I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty. -- Rand Paul
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ISIL is not the JV team. I cannot stress enough that there's a terrorist army in Syria and Iraq that wants to attack the homeland and we're not doing anything about it. So how do you defeat the ideology? Build up others? You reject Rand Paul. -- Rand Paul
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut. -- Rand Paul
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The question is, how do we keep America safe from terrorism? [Donald]Trump says we ought to close that Internet thing. The question really is, what does he mean by that? Like they do in North Korea? Like they do in China? -- Rand Paul
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I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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We woke up one day, and Pakistan had nuclear weapons. -- Rand Paul
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget. -- Rand Paul
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In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify. -- Rand Paul
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age. -- Rand Paul
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer. -- Rand Paul
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Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs. -- Rand Paul
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If you give up your rights now, don't expect to get them back. -- Rand Paul
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I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle. -- Rand Paul
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People who want to come to this country don't have constitutional rights. Once they get here, they do. But coming here is not a constitutional right. So with do, as a nation, have the ability and should have the ability to decide who comes here and when they come here. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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If you refuse to acknowledge that there is any waste that can be culled from the military budget, you are a big-government conservative, and you cannot lay claim to balancing the budget. -- Rand Paul
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The Bill of Rights existed long before President Obama was elected, and as long as I'm a U.S. Senator, I will fight to protect the basic rights and liberties that belong to all of us as American citizens. -- Rand Paul
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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin. -- Rand Paul
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Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves! -- Rand Paul
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I think the entire world knows, and North Korea knows, that if they used any weapons on our soldiers they would be obliterated. And it would be an overwhelming response. -- Rand Paul
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream. -- Rand Paul
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If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of. It would defy every norm that is America. -- Rand Paul
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The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd ... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds. -- Rand Paul
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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed. -- Rand Paul
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As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement. -- Rand Paul
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We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people. So just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let's not punish anyone. Let's keep taxes low and let's cut spending. -- Rand Paul
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I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons. -- Rand Paul
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On vague wording of drone strike criteria: Are you going to just drop a hellfire missile on Jane Fonda? Are you going to drop a missile on Kent State? That's gobbledygook. -- Rand Paul
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I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder, and I'm the only one that leads Hillary Clinton in five states that were won by President Obama. I'm a different kind of Republican. -- Rand Paul
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We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty. -- Rand Paul
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In a reality, what we should be doing is having quiet diplomacy with the Russians to convince them that it's in their self-interest to have a more stable Middle East because trade enriches us all. -- Rand Paul
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit. -- Rand Paul
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Let's make the haystack smaller. Let's say for a while, until we can figure out who's coming, who's going, and who's overstayed their visa, let's have extra scrutiny and figure out what's going on, because there's a whole segment of the world that is intent on sending people here to attack us. -- Rand Paul
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I think that by arming the allies of ISIS, the Islamic rebels against [Bashar] Assad, that we created a safe space or made that space bigger for ISIS to grow. -- Rand Paul
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I think those who have wanted regime [of Bashar Assad] change have made a mistake. -- Rand Paul
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote. -- Rand Paul
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I think if Russia is really an honest signatory to the chemical weapons ban, if Syria wants to be, ultimately someone has to be responsible for killing civilians. And that's the hard part out of this. -- Rand Paul
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The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did. -- Rand Paul
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I think that if you believe in regime change, you're mistaken. In 2013, we put 600 tons of weapons - us, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar - into the war against [Bashar] Assad. By pushing Assad back, we did create a safe space. -- Rand Paul
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I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline. -- Rand Paul
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The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base - get independent voters and voters who haven't been voting for your party to come to your party. -- Rand Paul
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Hardened terrorists are coming here to hit us hard if we don't hit them first. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors. -- Rand Paul
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit. -- Rand Paul
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The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health is a great idea. -- Rand Paul
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The Hepatitis B vaccine is now given to newborns. We sometimes give five and six vaccines all at one time. -- Rand Paul
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If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME! -- Rand Paul
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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is. -- Rand Paul
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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending. -- Rand Paul
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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities. -- Rand Paul
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There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making. -- Rand Paul
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I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere. -- Rand Paul
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular. -- Rand Paul
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Well, I think a handshake is something that honorable men do. Before we had contracts we had handshakes that expressed that we were making an arrangement that was based on our honor. And I don't think I can shake the hand of someone who shows and lacks honor by attacking a man's faith. -- Rand Paul
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I think it's a huge mistake. I think regime change in Syria, and this is what - I've been saying this for several years now. In 2013 when we first went in, I said, you are going to give arms to the allies of al Qaida, to radical jihadists? That's crazy. -- Rand Paul
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Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed
socialism doesn't work, -- Rand Paul
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Republicans who criticize the use of two languages, I think, make a great mistake. -- Rand Paul
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I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism. -- Rand Paul
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Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have. -- Rand Paul
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The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible. -- Rand Paul
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You can't promulgate injustice without consequences. -- Rand Paul
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader. -- Rand Paul
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How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security? -- Rand Paul
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court. -- Rand Paul
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I think we ought to quit sending [help] to countries that burn our flag. -- Rand Paul
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I say not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag. -- Rand Paul
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Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security. -- Rand Paul
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me. -- Rand Paul
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Whether or not regime change is a good idea or a bad idea. I don't think because I think the regime change was a bad idea it means that Hussein was necessarily a good idea. -- Rand Paul
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Roll back federal spending to 2008 levels. -- Rand Paul
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I do not yet know if I will find a Romney presidency more acceptable on foreign policy. But I do know that I must oppose the most recent statements made by Mitt Romney in which he says he, as president, could take us to war unilaterally with Iran, without any approval from Congress. -- Rand Paul
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We need to be fearful of companies that get so big that they can actually be directing policy. -- Rand Paul
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In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it ... But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don't vote on this. -- Rand Paul
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General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it. -- Rand Paul
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Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson? -- Rand Paul
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My dad was one of only four congressmen who supported Reagan. -- Rand Paul
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I'm an internationalist. I want to help others, not just kill terrorists. -- Rand Paul
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America. -- Rand Paul
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Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant? -- Rand Paul
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I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race. -- Rand Paul
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I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don't condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important. -- Rand Paul
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I'm the leading voice in America for not arming the allies of ISIS. -- Rand Paul
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I would have never released the sanctions [for Iran] before there was consistent evidence of compliance. -- Rand Paul
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians. -- Rand Paul
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We still need to secure our southern border. The other thing I would say is we need to secure who visits us in the country. -- Rand Paul
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And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom. -- Rand Paul
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The GOP of old has grown old and moss covered. -- Rand Paul
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We have 11 million people said to be in our country illegally. Forty percent of them are said to have overstayed their visa. Do we know where they are? -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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You can send a clear message to the establishment -- Rand Paul
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Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot. -- Rand Paul
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There's 150,000 students here from the Middle East. If 40% of them have overstayed their visa, don't we need to know where they are, what they're doing, are they obeying our rules? -- Rand Paul
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What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so. -- Rand Paul
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I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they're interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet. -- Rand Paul
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If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party, they're contagious and you can catch it from them. -- Rand Paul
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I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior. -- Rand Paul
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Our legislative victory - an end to earmarks. -- Rand Paul
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Still people want to topple [Bashar] Assad. And then there will be chaos, and I think ISIS will then be in charge of Syria. -- Rand Paul
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The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government. -- Rand Paul
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Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform. -- Rand Paul
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What is immoral for an individual to do, is immoral for a government to do -- Rand Paul
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I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it. -- Rand Paul
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government. -- Rand Paul
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What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith. -- Rand Paul
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Is Donald Trump a serious candidate? The reason I ask this is, if you're going to close the Internet, realize, America, what that entails. That entails getting rid of the First amendment, ok? It's no small feat. -- Rand Paul
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer. -- Rand Paul
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Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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I think my dad has helped me tremendously. -- Rand Paul
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As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it. -- Rand Paul
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As commander-in-chief, I will do whatever it takes to defend America. But in defending America, we cannot lose what America stands for. -- Rand Paul
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Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism. -- Rand Paul
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You can tell a person's religion 85 percent of the time from their phone records. -- Rand Paul
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The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered. I don't think we need to name any names, do we? Our party is encumbered by an inconsistent approach to freedom. The new GOP will need to embrace liberty in both the economic and the personal sphere. -- Rand Paul
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Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws. -- Rand Paul
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This whole sort of 'war on women' sort of thing, I'm scratching my head because if there was a war on women, I think they won. -- Rand Paul
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid. -- Rand Paul
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I don't think we're actually using the constitutional tools that we have in an appropriate fashion. -- Rand Paul
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I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people. -- Rand Paul
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Stop spending money you don't have. -- Rand Paul
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The Paris attack was highly sophisticated, well-planned, very clever, took months in the making, very much like 9/11. And there is a 9/11-style attack coming to America. -- Rand Paul
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For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.' -- Rand Paul
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values. -- Rand Paul
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If you are accused of being associated with terrorism, which could mean you are an Arab- American and you've sent e-mails to a relative in the Middle East, you should get your day in court, and I think you should get a lawyer and a trial, and I think most Americans agree to that. -- Rand Paul
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Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working. -- Rand Paul
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity. -- Rand Paul
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I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias. -- Rand Paul
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I would pay to have those adjudications enrolled into the federal background system so we could detect people who are mentally ill before they buy a gun. That is a real problem. -- Rand Paul
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The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children. -- Rand Paul
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You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world. -- Rand Paul
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I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle. -- Rand Paul
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The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children? -- Rand Paul
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You can not be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you're not going to pay for. -- Rand Paul
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much. -- Rand Paul
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming. -- Rand Paul
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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan. -- Rand Paul
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The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect. -- Rand Paul
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community. -- Rand Paul
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The greatest threat to our national security is our debt. We borrow a million dollars a minute. -- Rand Paul
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate. -- Rand Paul
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It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate. -- Rand Paul
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If there were an ounce of courage in this body I would be joined by other senators ... saying they will not tolerate this. -- Rand Paul
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We are borrowing $40,000 per second. -- Rand Paul
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'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength. -- Rand Paul
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win. -- Rand Paul
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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? -- Rand Paul
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I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17. -- Rand Paul
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The president began this program by executive order. He should immediately end it by executive order. For over a year now, he has said the program is illegal, and yet he does nothing. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not. -- Rand Paul
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The world does not have an Islam problem; the world has a dignity problem. -- Rand Paul
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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. -- Rand Paul
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You can't solve a dignity problem with military force. -- Rand Paul