Rand Paul

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.

The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court.

We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.

I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health is a great idea.

The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.

I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

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

I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.

My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.

We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.

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.'

I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.

I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.

The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.

I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.

We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.

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

Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.

Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in America.

Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.

For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.

We woke up one day, and Pakistan had nuclear weapons.

Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.

One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.

When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've 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.

After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?

What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.

I give thousands of interviews, and I'm probably about as open as anybody in Washington as far as access goes, so I'll continue to do that.

I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.

If you refuse to acknowledge that there is any waste that can be culled from the military budget, you are a big-government conservative, and you cannot lay claim to balancing the budget.

In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.

Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes, those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you lovers of liberty rise to the occasion?

I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.

What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.

No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.

Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.

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

I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.

People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.

America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.

In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.

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.

I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less than stellar human rights records, because I believe that once enslaved people taste freedom and see the products of capitalism, they will become hungry for freedom themselves.

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

It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

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 believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.

I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they're interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet.

I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

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

The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

America has much greatness left in her.

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.

Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.

Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.

Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.

Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.

I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

I call myself a constitutional conservative.

William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

I don't plan on being bashful.

It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.

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

I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.

I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I think there are 48 federal agencies that have SWAT teams.

The Life at Conception Act legislatively declares what most Americans believe and what science has long known - that human life begins at the moment of conception and, therefore, is entitled to legal protection from that point forward.