Sometimes I'll say flippantly if you sold the chicken to somebody, there'd be plenty of them, when things are owned, there's lots of cows. Cows are not endangered. Neither are chickens, really. The sage brush grouse would probably be less likely to be endangered if somebody owned it and allowed it to reproduce. So there are ways of handling it.

Rand Paul

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If you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health care... My staff and technicians provide it... If you have a right to health care, then you have a right to their labor.

slave care thinking

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

african-american vote firsts

I don't know about [Rex] Tillerson, but I do know that John Bolton doesn't get it. He still believes in regime change. He's still a big cheerleader for the Iraq war. He's promoted a nuclear attack by Israel on Iran. He wants to do regime change in Iran. So, I think John Bolton is so far out of it and has such a naive understanding of the world. If he were to be the assistant or the undersecretary for Tillerson, I'm an out automatic no on Bolton.

war believe thinking

The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children. by Rand Paul

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

states parent children

People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly... by Rand Paul

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

, I'm going to reserve judgment on [Rex] Tillerson. But I'll ask him the same question I've asked the others: do you understand the historic lesson that the Iraq war was a failure, a strategic mistake, that's what Donald Trump says.

iraq mistake war

I’ve never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on. If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash, I don’t care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him.

liquor-stores drones technology

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

voting party rights

You need to have people within your own party that have the where... by Rand Paul

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

party people needs

This is an ongoing threat from a variety of sources around the world. And actually I think it works both ways. I'm not privy to it, but I think all of the various country that have the ability are invading each other's computers all the time. But we have to protect our data. It's very important.

data country thinking

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?

gossip people world

You can send a clear message to the establishment by Rand Paul

You can send a clear message to the establishment

clear establishment messages

Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense... by Rand Paul

Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.

common-sense missing common

Roll back federal spending to 2008 levels. by Rand Paul

Roll back federal spending to 2008 levels.

federal-spending spending levels

No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and execution... by Rand Paul

No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.

executioners president judging

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

vaccines talking children

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.

government racism thinking

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

benefits pay mean

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?

car giving thinking

I think it's a little premature to talk about response until we know exactly what happened, but we should know what happened. And we should know how to defend [against hackers attacks] ourselves without question.

hackers littles thinking