Rand Paul
What my bill would do would be only for refugees going forward. So I haven't taken a position on sending anyone home. But I have taken the position that we have a lot of problems here in our country. And that one of the things that we do - charity is about giving your own money. Charity isn't giving someone else's money.Collection: Country
The government has investigated our program of collecting through a generalized fashion, everyone's phone records in the country. And they found that no terrorist case has been thwarted through this.Collection: Country
I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism.Collection: Racism
I think it's a huge mistake. I think regime change in Syria, and this is what - I've been saying this for several years now. In 2013 when we first went in, I said, you are going to give arms to the allies of al Qaida, to radical jihadists? That's crazy.Collection: Crazy
We live in a world, a medieval type of world, where someone can accuse you - through gossip and hearsay, and all of a sudden you're supposed to respond to specific charges from people you don't know, are not aware of who these people are, and you're supposed to respond to their specific allegations?Collection: People
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.Collection: Thinking
We have a lot of politicians who have really small brains and really big hearts.Collection: Heart
The insurance companies make about $15 billion a year. They have doubled their profit margin under Obamacare. And so now we're going to take a lot of this and call it a stabilization fund, but really it's a bailout of insurance companies. And I just think that's wrong. I just can't see why ordinary, average taxpayers would be giving money to very, very wealthy corporations. An analogous situation would be this: We all complain that new cars cost too much. Why don't we have a new car stabilization fund and give $130 billion to car companies?Collection: Thinking
It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.Collection: Government
The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death of 50 million unborn children in the last 40 years. I don't think a civilization can long endure that does not have respect for all human life, born and not yet born. I believe there will come a time when we are all judged on whether or not we took a stand in defense of all life from the moment of conception until our last natural breath.Collection: Children
The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed - socialism doesn't work.Collection: Fundamentals
I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!Collection: Phones
Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.Collection: Rights
During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.Collection: Thinking
You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.Collection: Strong
I worry that the Senate is working to consider a series of little-noticed provisions in comprehensive immigration reform that may provide a pathway to a national ID card for all individuals present in the United States - citizens and noncitizens.Collection: Worry
We need to be fearful of companies that get so big that they can actually be directing policy.Collection: Needs
The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over!Collection: Revolution
Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.Collection: Children
I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.Collection: War
I'm being unfairly targeted by a bunch of hacks and haters.Collection: Bunch
Join us in the fight to defeat the Washington machine. It’s fun and easy to get started. You can make a difference and change the direction of our country! Join today.Collection: Country
The GOP of old has grown old and moss covered.Collection: Moss
What is immoral for an individual to do, is immoral for a government to doCollection: Government
Let's say tomorrow that there was a president, that we elected a president that eliminated the bulk collection of data. Let's just say it happened. What do you think would happen? People are like 'the sky would fall. We would be overrun with jihadists.' Maybe we could rely on the Constitution. Maybe we could get warrants. ... If you make the warrant specific, there's no limit to what you can get through a warrant.Collection: Fall
Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security.Collection: Nsa
I'm not accusing anybody of being [Hitler].Collection: Accusing
The callous use of general warrants and the disregard for the Bill of Rights must end. Forcing us to choose between our rights and our safety is a false choice and we are better than that as a nation and as a people.Collection: Rights
2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time.Collection: Change
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants. If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you.Collection: America
My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it.Collection: Important
We shouldn't have a program where we just say that we're going to take care of the world's refugees. Nobody in the Middle East is doing anything. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait - all the Gulf nations are doing nothing.Collection: Qatar
I don't think it's so much Trump lobbing us for changes. It's us asking him for help in getting the changes done. I think Trump has the bully pulpit. He has a great deal of influence with the Republican Party on both the House and the Senate side. The bill right now to the conservative point of view doesn't have enough repeal. It looks like we're keeping a lot of Obamacare. So we actually think that there needs to be more repeal. That's the message I took to Trump.Collection: Party
What most Americans don't realize is there is an unholy alliance. They come together. There's a secret handshake. We spend more money on everything. And we are not stronger nation if we go further into debt. We are not projecting power from bankruptcy court.Collection: Secret
I support local solutions to illegal immigration as protected by the 10th amendment. I support making English the official language of all documents and contracts.Collection: Support
Well, let's be clear, I'm the only one on the stage who actually has a five-year budget that balances.Collection: Years
I still say exactly what my original opinion is. Do you borrow money from China to send it to anyone? Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.Collection: Israel
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.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Government
I will not let the patriot act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.Collection: Patriotic
The 11 million, I think, are never going home, don't need to be sent home, and I would incorporate them into our society by giving them work visas and making them taxpayers.Collection: Home
Republicans who criticize the use of two languages, I think, make a great mistake.Collection: Mistake
I will advocate for Kentucky's interests.Collection: Kentucky
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.Collection: War
I say not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag.Collection: Country
I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington.Collection: Gun
What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.' I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business. And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen.Collection: Thinking
We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.Collection: Losing
I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.Collection: Political