There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.

Rand Paul

Categorized in : Suffering Liberty Complacency

If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!

term-limits government home

The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.

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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me... by Rand Paul

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

nannies want people

Unless you really stand for something, people aren't motivated to... by Rand Paul

Unless you really stand for something, people aren't motivated to go out and vote for you.

motivated vote people

We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut eve... by Rand Paul

We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.

safety cutting pennies

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die. by Rand Paul

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

dies taken dream

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

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We should understand the limitations of war. We should understand the sacrifices our young men and women go through losing lives and limbs. And they should only do it for the highest of purposes.

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For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

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I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.

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When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury - national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture - we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands.

erosion couple law

I think that, most importantly, when I see issues of war, I see them in a personal vein, and I am reluctant to go to war unless there's a real, valid American interest because I've seen the wounded soldiers.

real war thinking

If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back. by Rand Paul

If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.

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I've put pencil to paper... and I've said I would cut spending, and I've said exactly where. Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective.

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The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have... by Rand Paul

The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect.

effects president may

I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they're women, they're in positions because they're intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally.

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President Obama said, oh, we want to make insurance perfect for people, but he added all these regulatory mandates, made it too expensive. Young, healthy people didn't buy it, and the people remaining in the insurance pool were sicker and sicker. That's the adverse selection and the death spiral of Obamacare. And so really we do need to discuss the intricacies of what worked and what didn't work in Obamacare. And I think the better way to do this is to let individuals have the freedom to choose what kind of insurance is best for them. The government doesn't always know best.

perfect people thinking

In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it ... But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don't vote on this.

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If Americans were attacked, it does change the equation. The problem is, is that with regard to this is there've been horrendous killings of civilians with conventional weapons.

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