I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government,… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on [gay] marriage, that's when it's time to resist. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
What is immoral for an individual to do, is immoral for a government to do — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is time to be more careful what we ask government to do, and where we allow it to become part… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty,… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I think what we've had in the past is the government has said, "Well, we need to collect the whole haystack." And… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The government has investigated our program of collecting through a generalized fashion, everyone's phone records in the country. And they found that… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
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… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
You wonder why your government's completely broken? We lurch from deadline to deadline, and it's on purpose really. We do deadline to… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The other thing to realize is that almost all these shootings, including this shooting [in San-Bernardino], happened in a government building where… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I'll do anything to try to prevent John Bolton from getting any position, because I think his world view is naive. He… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I went to my first national convention in 1976, when my family supported [Ronald] Reagan over [Gerald] Ford, so we've always been… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I think we have a Tea Party mandate, and that Tea Party mandate is for good-government type of things, things like term… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin or on their religion. But I would take into account where… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant? — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
To put everyone in government housing and food stamps and bring them in from around the world I think is a mistake.… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
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… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
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… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I am encouraged President Obama now says he will fulfill his constitutional obligation to seek authorization for any potential military action in Syria. This… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I can tell you who's planning terroris attacks. The leaders of ISIL. And I can tell you where they're at. They're in Raqqa, Syria.… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
There comes a time, in the history of Nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver and perhaps even to… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I believe people ought to be treated fairly under the law. I see no reason why if the marriage contract conveys certain things that… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I think that, most importantly, when I see issues of war, I see them in a personal vein, and I am reluctant to go… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
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… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
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… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
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… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image