Top 141 Rand Paul Quotes

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

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

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.

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 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.

America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.

I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.

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.

Throughout the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.

Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.

As long as I sit at Henry Clay’s desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.

You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

It seems the most common thing for serial interventionists to do these days is to lob the term ‘isolationist’ at anyone who does not agree with their latest folly, and then set up a straw man about those people not wanting to be involved in the world.

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.

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.

It isn’t hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

Communism can’t survive the captivating allure of capitalism.

Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.

I would have voted ‘no’ on the Iraq war and ‘yes’ to Afghanistan.

Stop spending money you don’t have.

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn’t worked.

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.

One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that’s when it’s time to resist.

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

What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.

I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

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

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.

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?

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.

We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.

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

I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

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

You can’t promulgate injustice without consequences.

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

Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

You can’t solve a dignity problem with military force.

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.

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.

America has much greatness left in her.

I don’t program or code or anything like that.

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

What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.

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

I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.

The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.

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.

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.

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We’re borrowing a million dollars a minute. It’s got to stop somewhere.

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

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.

I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.

The Republican platform specifically says we don’t believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.

If I had been in President Obama’s shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.

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.

Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it’s still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people’s information with a single warrant.

I don’t think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.

Government can supply bread, but it can’t mend a broken spirit.

Let’s overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

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.

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.

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.

Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.

‘Peace through Strength’ only works if you have and show strength.

The world does not have an Islam problem; the world has a dignity problem.

The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.

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.