Top 558 Quotes & Sayings by Rand Paul - Page 4

Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.

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.

Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.

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.

It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.

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.

I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.

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.

We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.

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.

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.

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 am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.

Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.

I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.

Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?

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.

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.

We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.

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

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

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.

If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat?

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

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

You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.

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

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.

The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.

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

Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

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

The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.

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.

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.

After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?

I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.

General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.

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.

I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.

What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.

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.

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

People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.

Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.

I have a biology degree, okay?

The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

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.

I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.

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.

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 can't promulgate injustice without consequences.

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

Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.

If you have 'too big to fail' for cities or for states, and they believe they'll be bailed out, they'll continue to make unwise decisions.

The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

America has much greatness left in her.

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.

In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.