Top 558 Quotes & Sayings by Rand Paul - Page 2

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

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

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

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

I don't plan on being bashful.

A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

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

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

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.

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

I think a lot of things could be handled locally.

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

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

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

Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

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

The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

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

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

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.

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

I think my dad has helped me tremendously.

I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.

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

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

Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

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

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.

If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

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

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

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

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.

The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.

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

Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'

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

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

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

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

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.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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

You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'