I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder, and I'm the only one that leads Hillary Clinton in five states that were won by President Obama. I'm a different kind of Republican.
— Rand Paul
I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.
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.
Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.
If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn't have expected to be shot.
After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?
What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.
Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in America.
I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.
The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court.
The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.
Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.
I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.
You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.
Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.
I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.
Most police officers are good cops and good people.
If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.
'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.
Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.
When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.
Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot.
Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.
In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days' worth of phone records for a single individual were not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The NSA today, though, collects hundreds of millions of phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans without an individualized warrant.
I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less than stellar human rights records, because I believe that once enslaved people taste freedom and see the products of capitalism, they will become hungry for freedom themselves.
Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
Stop spending money you don't have.
One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.
I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.
There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response.
We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
America has much greatness left in her.
For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.
The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
Bulk collection of phone records didn't find or stop the Tsarnaev brothers from the massacre in Boston. In fact, one might argue that all of the money spent on bulk collection takes money away from human analysts that might have noticed the older brother's trip to become radicalized in Chechnya.
I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.
I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.
I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
