Quotes by Rand Paul

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

I tell people I wont vote to go to war unless Im ready to go or send my kids.

Peace through Strength only works if you have and show strength.

To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.

I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and Im proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.

The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

The biggest thing Ive learned from my dad is hes had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwells Liberty University. Thats an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.

Im not questioning Dick Cheneys motives. Theres a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.

The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. Im a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.

What Ive always said is that Im opposed to institutional racism, and I wouldve, had Ive 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.

The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.

We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. Thats where you sell something, and I agree to buy it because I like it. That is how we operate in most of rest of the marketplace other than health care.

When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that weve become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.

One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, thats when its time to resist.

I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

I dont want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, its a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and theyre tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.