Rand Paul Quotes

You shouldn’t have one opinion when you’re running and another when you’re president.

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

You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

You don’t win as a party unless you become a bigger party.

You don’t go into politics unless you want to win.

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t tell me that you’re taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, ‘Bring me home some bacon.’ The pig has been picked clean.

What I’ve always said is that I’m opposed to institutional racism, and I would’ve, had I’ve been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there’s still waste in the military budget.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries – the financial industry or any other industry.

 

We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we’re unhappy and that we want things done differently.

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.

The Republican platform specifically says we don’t believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it’s easier to win a libel suit.