What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.
— Rand Paul
If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
I don't plan on being bashful.
The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.
I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.
I'm the third of five children.
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.
My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating process is over, tonight, I'm happy to announce that I'm going to be supporting Governor Romney.
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?
I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.
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.
We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
I think my dad has helped me tremendously.
We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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.
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.
Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'
You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.
Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.
I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.
I think a lot of things could be handled locally.
In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.
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've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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.
Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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.
I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
