647 Quotes by Rand Paul

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be ‘constitutional’ does not make it so.

My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn’t borrow to pay for it.

I think that, most importantly, when I see issues of war, I see them in a personal vein, and I am reluctant to go to war unless there’s a real, valid American interest because I’ve seen the wounded soldiers.

Who gets to decide who’s an enemy combatant and who’s an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history?

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, ‘you don’t build that.’

I think there is some overreach in the sense that the EPA now says: if Congress doesn’t pass greenhouse emissions regulations or testing, we’ll simply do it on our own. I think that’s an arrogance of a regulatory body run amok.

If you’re white and you’re rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you’re poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail.

The president’s rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect.

Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, ‘Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is warming.’ The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and you’re going to say that we had four hurricanes and so it proves a theory?