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Thinking Quotes by Rand Paul

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Rand Paul says war should be a last resort and only when a clear American interest exists. He warns that listening and acting without thought can cause trouble, and he calls attention to big privacy risks from mass phone monitoring. He also stresses that women earn positions because they are smart, not just because they are women.

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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

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We have to think before we act.

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I think my dad has helped me tremendously.

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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.

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I think a lot of things could be handled locally.

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I think we're never fully protected, but I think we need to do everything we can to stop threats to us.

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I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

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I think that we have to be very careful about who comes here from the Middle East.

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

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I think there's a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don't think race is always the…

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I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have…

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I don't think we're actually using the constitutional tools that we have in an appropriate fashion.

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I think those who have wanted regime [of Bashar Assad] change have made a mistake.

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I think that by arming the allies of ISIS, the Islamic rebels against [Bashar] Assad, that we created a safe space or…

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I think it's a mistake to downgrade and say surveillance is no big deal. It is a huge deal that we are…

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If you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health…

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I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he…

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I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they're women, they're in positions because they're intelligent…

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I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned…

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I think it's a little premature to talk about response until we know exactly what happened, but we should know what happened.…

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I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they…

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I think there's evil on both sides [of Syria], and I think that's one reason I don't want to be involved in…

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This is an ongoing threat from a variety of sources around the world. And actually I think it works both ways. I'm…

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Overall do I believe exchange with other cultures is good, people going back and forth is good, trade is good. Yes, all…

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The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death…

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I think we have a Tea Party mandate, and that Tea Party mandate is for good-government type of things, things like term…

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I'm not opposed to letting people work and labor in our country, but we shouldn't provide an easy route to citizenship. We're…

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I think we can't be naive in dealing with the Russians or dealing with the Syrians. But at the same time, I…

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I think most people, in their lifetime, have seen somebody who has the ability to use force lord it over other individuals.…

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President Obama said, oh, we want to make insurance perfect for people, but he added all these regulatory mandates, made it too…

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President Obama, I think, wanted what was best for the country, but I think it didn't work well. I think we have…

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The insurance companies make about $15 billion a year. They have doubled their profit margin under Obamacare. And so now we're going…

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Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.

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I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

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Republicans who criticize the use of two languages, I think, make a great mistake.

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

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I think we ought to quit sending [help] to countries that burn our flag.

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I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.

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I think it's fair to point out that there is bias in the media on both sides, both right and left. And…

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I hate that Mosul is falling, but I also think that for 10 years we have supplied the Iraqis and they can't…

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I believe people ought to be treated fairly under the law. I see no reason why if the marriage contract conveys certain things that…

I think that, most importantly, when I see issues of war, I see them in a personal vein, and I am reluctant to go…

I would have handled it differently than the mayor of Baltimore, that's for sure. I think it's a mistake to say, hey, guys, you…

We have to think before we act.

I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.

President Obama, I think, wanted what was best for the country, but I think it didn't work well. I think we have the death…

I think it's a mistake to downgrade and say surveillance is no big deal. It is a huge deal that we are collecting millions…

We need a revival in the country,” Paul said. “We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, 'reform or…

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.