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Rand Paul warns that we should be careful about letting government take over more of our lives. He argues the Constitution exists to keep government in check, not to control citizens. He also points out that privacy and personal freedoms are often taken for granted inside government buildings.

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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

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I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

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Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

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

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

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We have a lot of politicians who have really small brains and really big hearts.

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What is immoral for an individual to do, is immoral for a government to do

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I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.

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The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected…

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I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime ... unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party. And…

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

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

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The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

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The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to…

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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

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In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a…

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I think what we've had in the past is the government has said, "Well, we need to collect the whole haystack." And…

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I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have…

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The other thing to realize is that almost all these shootings, including this shooting [in San-Bernardino], happened in a government building where…

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You wonder why your government's completely broken? We lurch from deadline to deadline, and it's on purpose really. We do deadline to…

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The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a…

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Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority…

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To put everyone in government housing and food stamps and bring them in from around the world I think is a mistake.…

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With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies. It’s…

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I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin or on their religion. But I would take into account where…

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

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

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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

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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…

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It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.

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Perhaps it is time to be more careful what we ask government to do, and where we allow it to become part…

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When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on [gay] marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

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I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government,…

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The government has investigated our program of collecting through a generalized fashion, everyone's phone records in the country. And they found that…

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For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

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I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.

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

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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…

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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.