Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.
— Rand Paul
The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress.
We woke up one day, and Pakistan had nuclear weapons.
What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
I ran for office originally as part of this Tea Party Movement because we were upset with Republicans who've doubled the debt. We were upset with Republicans that bailed out the banks.
There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes, those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you lovers of liberty rise to the occasion?
In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?
I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health is a great idea.
Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.
I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.
Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.
I give thousands of interviews, and I'm probably about as open as anybody in Washington as far as access goes, so I'll continue to do that.
Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.
I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I think there are 48 federal agencies that have SWAT teams.
I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.
Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.
I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they're interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet.
I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.
The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.
I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.
I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.
The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.
I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.
My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
If you go to prison, your child support adds up.
I don't program or code or anything like that.
The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.
Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.
The realization is dawning that government doesn't work. In Silicon Valley, they already get this. And they are bright enough to be asking what we can do to solve problems.
The Hepatitis B vaccine is now given to newborns. We sometimes give five and six vaccines all at one time.
I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.
