Rand Paul Quotes

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.

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

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

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.

You can send a clear message to the establishment

I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money.

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.

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.

It's a little different when you spend 30 years developing all these companies that we just ask [Donald Trump] to sell them. So I don't think that's a fair request.

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

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

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.

Roll back federal spending to 2008 levels.

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

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

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

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.

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

The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over!

I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.

Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

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

Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.

I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

I think my dad has helped me tremendously.

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.

You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.

Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.

We need to be fearful of companies that get so big that they can actually be directing policy.

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.

What is immoral for an individual to do, is immoral for a government to do

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.

I don't think we're doing an adequate vetting process of those who are coming to our country.

There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making.

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?

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.

I'm the third of five children.

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

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.

The GOP of old has grown old and moss covered.

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.

I just can't vote to go to war unless I think there's a real clear-cut American purpose in the war, that we're going to win and that we're not going fight for stalemate.

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.

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.