Top 558 Quotes & Sayings by Rand Paul - Page 3

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

One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.

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?

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?

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

In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.

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

The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.

I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.

We woke up one day, and Pakistan had nuclear weapons.

I give thousands of interviews, and I'm probably about as open as anybody in Washington as far as access goes, so I'll continue to do that.

The Hepatitis B vaccine is now given to newborns. We sometimes give five and six vaccines all at one time.

Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.

My dad was one of only four congressmen who supported Reagan.

Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.

Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

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

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.

I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.

The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.

I ran for office originally as part of this Tea Party Movement because we were upset with Republicans who've doubled the debt. We were upset with Republicans that bailed out the banks.

No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.

I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.

To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.

I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.

The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.

Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.

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

I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.

In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.

I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they're interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet.

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

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

If you go to prison, your child support adds up.

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

I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.

I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.

I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.

If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.

My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.

William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.

Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.

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.

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.

Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.

I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I think there are 48 federal agencies that have SWAT teams.

The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.

We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.

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

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.

It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'

I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

The realization is dawning that government doesn't work. In Silicon Valley, they already get this. And they are bright enough to be asking what we can do to solve problems.

I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.

Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.

The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress.