As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.
— Rand Paul
We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
The world does not have an Islam problem; the world has a dignity problem.
Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?
The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
The Life at Conception Act legislatively declares what most Americans believe and what science has long known - that human life begins at the moment of conception and, therefore, is entitled to legal protection from that point forward.
Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'
We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.
You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.
No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.
My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
I have a biology degree, okay?
The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.
I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.
I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.
It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.
Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.
I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.
Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.
The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.
Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.
People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.
If you have 'too big to fail' for cities or for states, and they believe they'll be bailed out, they'll continue to make unwise decisions.
William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.
I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.
My dad was one of only four congressmen who supported Reagan.
I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
If you refuse to acknowledge that there is any waste that can be culled from the military budget, you are a big-government conservative, and you cannot lay claim to balancing the budget.
Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.
You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat?
I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.
It seems the most common thing for serial interventionists to do these days is to lob the term 'isolationist' at anyone who does not agree with their latest folly, and then set up a straw man about those people not wanting to be involved in the world.
No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.
In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.
Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.
I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
