L.A. Paul Quotes

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.

Roll back federal spending to 2008 levels.

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.

The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over!

Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

I love the Mexican people; I respect the Mexican leaders - but the leaders are much sharper, smarter and more cunning than our [American] leaders.

The depth of love is revealed in its departure.

People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.

People of different ethnicities are definitely not of differing species. Biologically speaking, people are people.

Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.

Scientifically, there's no debate over whether the fetus is alive and human.

Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.

As an O.B. doctor of thirty years, and having delivered 4,000 babies, I can assure you life begins at conception.

For those who have asked, I freely confess that Jesus Christ is my personal Savior, and that I seek His guidance in all that I do.

Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.

It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would be very beneficial.

I take my marching orders from the Constitution.

I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.

Only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions.

I want to be president mainly for what I don't want to do: I don't want to run your life, I don't want to run the economy, and I don't want to police the world.

I believe that Israel is one of our most important friends in the world.

We get our rights from our Creator as individuals. So every individual should be treated the same way.

Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.

If global warming is because of weather changes - which a lot of people believe - there's not much we can do to change the weather pattern.

I like music when it makes you feel.

May God be pleased to make it known to you, and fill you increasingly with His Spirit, so that through you it may be poured into the souls you guide, and your own soul may be more greatly sanctified!

I have never come away from you without reflecting that the Spirit of God and His holy workings reside in you.

Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time

If you do not see any good in these persons, then say nothing, but if you do see some, speak about it to honor God in them because all good proceeds from Him.

When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.

...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs

Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...

...Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons.

If there is any danger in the present weather, in the name of God, Monsieur, wait until spring

That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters.

Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim

It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.

What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.

Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.

but even the facts do not always tell the truth

...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

Did I hear God call me an idiot?

Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.