Quotes By Rand Paul

I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

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

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.

Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.

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

I'm the third of five children.

I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.

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

A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

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.

I think a lot of things could be handled locally.

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.

I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.

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

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

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.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

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

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

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.

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

I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.