Top 250 Rand Paul Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I think the vast majority of the American people say you shouldn’t be able to collect my phone records if I’m not suspicious, if you don’t have probable cause.”

— Rand Paul

52. “I’ve never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on. If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash, I don’t care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him.”

— Rand Paul

53. “Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It’s sort of like the people who spy on us – you’ve got to watch the watchers.”

— Rand Paul

54. “Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me – they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are pogroms.”

— Rand Paul

55. “The greatest threat to our national security is our debt. We borrow a million dollars a minute.”

— Rand Paul

56. “I support local solutions to illegal immigration as protected by the 10th amendment. I support making English the official language of all documents and contracts...”

— Rand Paul

57. “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 and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally.”

— Rand Paul

58. “2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time.”

— Rand Paul

59. “Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?”

— Rand Paul

60. “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.”

— Rand Paul

61. “I don’t plan on being bashful.”

— Rand Paul

62. “Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.”

— Rand Paul

63. “Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?”

— Rand Paul

64. “The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base – get independent voters and voters who haven’t been voting for your party to come to your party.”

— Rand Paul

65. “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.”

— Rand Paul

66. “I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.”

— Rand Paul

67. “What most Americans don’t realize is there is an unholy alliance. They come together. There’s a secret handshake. We spend more money on everything. And we are not stronger nation if we go further into debt. We are not projecting power from bankruptcy court.”

— Rand Paul

68. “We still need to secure our southern border. The other thing I would say is we need to secure who visits us in the country.”

— Rand Paul

69. “Who gets to decide who’s an enemy combatant and who’s an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history?”

— Rand Paul

70. “I would pay to have those adjudications enrolled into the federal background system so we could detect people who are mentally ill before they buy a gun. That is a real problem.”

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

72. “The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the revolution over!”

— Rand Paul

73. “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.”

— Rand Paul

74. “You either believe in the Constitution, or you don’t.”

— Rand Paul

75. “You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.”

— Rand Paul

76. “We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let’s make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let’s make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.”

— Rand Paul

77. “I’ve put pencil to paper and I’ve said I would cut spending, and I’ve said exactly where. Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.”

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

79. “The source of the problem is in Syria. Raqqa is the headquarters of ISIL, which is a lethal terrorist organization, now army. If you don’t go after them over there, they’re going to hit us over here, and there’s no substitute for that in my view.”

— Rand Paul

80. “The Republican Party’s history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.”

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

82. “The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.”

— Rand Paul

83. “Hardened terrorists are coming here to hit us hard if we don’t hit them first.”

— Rand Paul

84. “Many states and even many people who are in support of the death penalty question their support of the death penalty because of the imperfection of our courts. Through DNA testing, we don’t always get it right, even with that.”

— Rand Paul

85. “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 their visa, let’s have extra scrutiny and figure out what’s going on, because there’s a whole segment of the world that is intent on sending people here to attack us.”

— Rand Paul

86. “My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn’t borrow to pay for it.”

— Rand Paul

87. “As commander-in-chief, I will do whatever it takes to defend America. But in defending America, we cannot lose what America stands for.”

— Rand Paul

88. “We shouldn’t have a program where we just say that we’re going to take care of the world’s refugees. Nobody in the Middle East is doing anything. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait – all the Gulf nations are doing nothing.”

— Rand Paul

89. “Gun control is not part of a strategy to defeat radical Islam or take ISIL down. However it is a problem back here at home. A million people have been adjudicated a danger to themselves or to others at the state court level.”

— Rand Paul

90. “Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be ‘constitutional’ does not make it so.”

— Rand Paul

91. “Well, there’s 10 – there’s 10 different – there’s 10 different titles, you know, to the Civil Rights Act, and nine out of 10 deal with public institutions and I’m absolutely in favor of. One deals with private institutions, and had I been around, I would have tried to modify that.”

— Rand Paul

92. “The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.”

— Rand Paul

93. “To me, there is no greater threat than our debt. I’m the only fiscal conservative on the stage because I’m willing to hold the line on all spending.”

— Rand Paul

94. “A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.”

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

96. “The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered. I don’t think we need to name any names, do we? Our party is encumbered by an inconsistent approach to freedom. The new GOP will need to embrace liberty in both the economic and the personal sphere.”

— Rand Paul

97. “In a reality, what we should be doing is having quiet diplomacy with the Russians to convince them that it’s in their self-interest to have a more stable Middle East because trade enriches us all.”

— Rand Paul

98. “Join us in the fight to defeat the Washington machine. It’s fun and easy to get started. You can make a difference and change the direction of our country! Join today.”

— Rand Paul

99. “You can excuse these socialists all you want as “men and women of their times”. But never forget that they were socialists and that they saw state planning of the family as no different than state planning of the economy or a rancher’s planning for his cattle breeding.”

— Rand Paul

100. “I think we’re never fully protected, but I think we need to do everything we can to stop threats to us.”

— Rand Paul