Rand Paul
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.
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.
I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.
America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
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.
We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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.
I have a biology degree, okay?
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.
Stop spending money you don't have.
You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.
I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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.
I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.
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.
Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.
In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days' worth of phone records for a single individual were not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The NSA today, though, collects hundreds of millions of phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans without an individualized warrant.
General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.
I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.
I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
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.
Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
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.
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.
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.
We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.
I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.
In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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.
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.
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.
Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.
America has much greatness left in her.
Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.
What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.
After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?
We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.
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.
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.
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.
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!Collection: Home
Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Government
The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.Collection: Government