Rand Paul Quotes

I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.

I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.

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.

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

I don't plan on being bashful.

I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!

You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.

During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

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.

Unless you really stand for something, people aren't motivated to go out and vote for you.

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.

I'm a Reagan conservative. Reagan did negotiate with the Soviets. But you have to negotiate from a position of strength.

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.

The greatest threat to our national security is our debt. We borrow a million dollars a minute.

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.

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.

You can tell a person's religion 85 percent of the time from their phone records.

I'm here in Whoopi Goldberg's office trying to choose some shoes. We've seen [Marco] Rubio has those cool new boots and I don't want to be outdone.

As commander-in-chief, I will do whatever it takes to defend America. But in defending America, we cannot lose what America stands for.

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.

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?

You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

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

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, you don't build that.

I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.

I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.

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.

You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.

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.

Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.

We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.

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.

I think a lot of things could be handled locally.

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

A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

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.

I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington.

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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.

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

I will advocate for Kentucky's interests.

I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

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.