Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud,…

— Rand Paul

Hardened terrorists are coming here to hit us hard if we don't hit them first.

— Rand Paul

I want to see the original long-form certificate of Donald Trump's Republican registration.

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.

— Rand Paul

I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.

— Rand Paul

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

The other thing I said is the great irony is you will be back fighting against your own weapons. Had [Bashar] Assad…

— Rand Paul

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

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

— Rand Paul

How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did…

— Rand Paul

My worry now is that many people are talking about a partial repeal of Obamacare. If you only repeal part of it…

— Rand Paul

The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming…

— Rand Paul

We didn't create ISIS - ISIS created themselves, but we will stop them, and one of the ways we stop them is…

— Rand Paul

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

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

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

ISIL is not the JV team. I cannot stress enough that there's a terrorist army in Syria and Iraq that wants to…

— Rand Paul

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

I think when people voted for Donald Trump, they realized he owned a lot of stuff with his name on it. I…

— Rand Paul

Let's make the haystack smaller. Let's say for a while, until we can figure out who's coming, who's going, and who's overstayed…

— Rand Paul

What my bill would do would be only for refugees going forward. So I haven't taken a position on sending anyone home.…

— Rand Paul

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.

— Rand Paul

I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington.

— Rand Paul

We don't have enough money to rebuild our own country if we're rebuilding everyone else's countries.

— Rand Paul

The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect.

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

— Rand Paul

You can not be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you're not going to pay for.

— Rand Paul

The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed -- socialism doesn't work,

— Rand Paul

If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party, they're contagious and you can catch it from them.

— Rand Paul

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.

— Rand Paul

I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.

— Rand Paul

You can tell a person's religion 85 percent of the time from their phone records.

— Rand Paul

Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?

— Rand Paul

America does not need to continue to have regime change throughout the world, nation-building.

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security.

— Rand Paul