647 Quotes by Rand Paul

We have to have a more realistic foreign policy and not a utopian one where we say, oh, we’re going to spread freedom and democracy, and everybody in the Middle East is going to love us. They are not going to love us.

Well, let’s be clear I’m the only one on the stage who actually has a five-year budget that balances.

So why did I run? I tell people that I got tired of throwing things at my television, and that is at least partially true.

I don’t think we’re doing an adequate vetting process of those who are coming to our country.

On the Gang of Eight bill, there was no provisions really for extra scrutiny or safety for refugees. At the time the bill came up, two Iraqi refugees came to my home town, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Their fingerprints were on a bomb from Iraq. They were in the database, but we didn’t pick them up.

The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there’s a self interest in this for everyone.

The people who get the ability to use force have to be watched carefully by civilians to make sure they don’t use it excessively.

We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let’s make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let’s make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.

I think if Russia is really an honest signatory to the chemical weapons ban, if Syria wants to be, ultimately someone has to be responsible for killing civilians. And that’s the hard part out of this.