The point that I will try to make tonight in the debates is that the biggest threat to our country is that we're borrowing $1 million a minute. Rand Paul More Quotes by Rand Paul More Quotes From Rand Paul We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community. Rand Paul drugcommunitylaw 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. Rand Paul cousinagreementheart To me, there is no greater threat than our debt. I'm the only fiscal conservative on the stage because I'm willing to hold the line on all spending. Rand Paul debtconservativelines In a reality, what we should be doing is having quiet diplomacy with the Russians to convince them that it's in their self-interest to have a more stable Middle East because trade enriches us all. Rand Paul middle-eastselfreality Right now in the insurance markets, we have sort of a disaster unfolding, a downward spiral, adverse selection, premiums in the individual market going through the roof. People can't afford insurance and insurance companies are losing hundreds of millions of dollars. If you repeal part of Obamacare to get rid of the individual mandate but keep some of the ideas, that people can still buy insurance after they're sick, the situation gets extraordinarily worse. And so what we're seeing now could be tenfold greater if you only repeal part of Obamacare. Rand Paul obamacaresickideas I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them. Rand Paul defeatterrorismthinking Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam. Rand Paul chaosmiddle-eastislam We have to have a more realistic foreign policy and not a utopian one where we say, oh, we're going to spread freedom and democracy, and everybody in the Middle East is going to love us. They are not going to love us. Rand Paul realisticmiddle-eastdemocracy With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses. Rand Paul meanbelieveideas I was told I got 10 measly minutes, but just in case, I brought 13 hours worth of material. Rand Paul hoursminutescases 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. Rand Paul the-end-of-the-daybalancecutting My goodness, what we want in a leader is someone with judgment, not someone who is so reckless as to stand on the stage and say, "Yes, I'm jumping up and down; I'm going to shoot down Russian planes." Russia already flies in that airspace. It may not be something we're in love with the fact that they're there, but they were invited by Iraq and by Syria to fly in that airspace. Rand Paul iraqrussiajumping The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered. I don't think we need to name any names, do we? Our party is encumbered by an inconsistent approach to freedom. The new GOP will need to embrace liberty in both the economic and the personal sphere. Rand Paul partynamesthinking It's a little different when you spend 30 years developing all these companies that we just ask [Donald Trump] to sell them. So I don't think that's a fair request. Rand Paul differentyearsthinking America's not the world's policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act. Rand Paul runningbelievechildren So if we announce we're going to have a no-fly zone, and others have said this. Hillary Clinton is also for it. It is a recipe for disaster. It's a recipe for World War III. We need to confront Russia from a position of strength, but we don't need to confront Russia from a point of recklessness that would lead to war. Rand Paul russiawarneeds I don't think it's so much Trump lobbing us for changes. It's us asking him for help in getting the changes done. I think Trump has the bully pulpit. He has a great deal of influence with the Republican Party on both the House and the Senate side. The bill right now to the conservative point of view doesn't have enough repeal. It looks like we're keeping a lot of Obamacare. So we actually think that there needs to be more repeal. That's the message I took to Trump. Rand Paul partyhousethinking I want to see the original long-form certificate of Donald Trump's Republican registration. Rand Paul republicanwantlong We shouldn't have a program where we just say that we're going to take care of the world's refugees. Nobody in the Middle East is doing anything. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait - all the Gulf nations are doing nothing. Rand Paul qatarkuwaitmiddle-east I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends. 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