Rand Paul
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.Collection: Independence
I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.Collection: Independence
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.Collection: Alone
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.Collection: History
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.Collection: Legal
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.Collection: Legal
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.Collection: Medical
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.Collection: Government
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.Collection: Health
Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Courage
Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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.
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?
If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes, those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you lovers of liberty rise to the occasion?
I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.
I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'
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.
The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.
The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.
We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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.
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health is a great idea.
Most police officers are good cops and good people.
Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
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.
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.
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.
You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.
I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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.
No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?