647 Quotes by Rand Paul

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

I'm a Reagan conservative. Reagan did negotiate with the Soviets. But you have to negotiate from a position of strength.

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.

Should it be prohibited for private entities such as a church, bed-and-breakfast or retirement neighborhood that doesn't want noisy children? Absolutely not. Decisions concerning private property and associations should in a free society be unhindered.

I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.

I still say exactly what my original opinion is. Do you borrow money from China to send it to anyone? 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 am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.

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.

After ensuring border security, I then would normalize the status of 11 million undocumented citizens so they can join the work force and pay taxes...I would normalize them at a rate of about two million per year.