647 Quotes by Rand Paul

You either believe in the Constitution, or you don’t.

We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base – get independent voters and voters who haven’t been voting for your party to come to your party.

I think if we want to defeat terrorism, I think if we truly are sincere about defeating terrorism, we need to quit arming the allies of ISIS. If we want to defeat terrorism, the boots on the ground – the boots on the ground need to be Arab boots on the ground.

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.’

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.

You can excuse these socialists all you want as “men and women of their times”. But never forget that they were socialists and that they saw state planning of the family as no different than state planning of the economy or a rancher’s planning for his cattle breeding.

Well, I think a handshake is something that honorable men do. Before we had contracts we had handshakes that expressed that we were making an arrangement that was based on our honor. And I don’t think I can shake the hand of someone who shows and lacks honor by attacking a man’s faith.

If you hear me out, I believe you’ll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone’s rights.