Top 250 Rand Paul Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “I think really that you shouldn’t run as a conservative if you’re not.”

— Rand Paul

102. “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

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

— Rand Paul

104. “If I have a weakness, it’s that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.”

— Rand Paul

105. “Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.”

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

107. “I think it’s a huge mistake. I think regime change in Syria, and this is what – I’ve been saying this for several years now. In 2013 when we first went in, I said, you are going to give arms to the allies of al Qaida, to radical jihadists? That’s crazy.”

— Rand Paul

108. “The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.”

— Rand Paul

109. “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

110. “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

111. “Both sides of the aisle – Republican and Democrat – have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone’s got to.”

— Rand Paul

112. “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

113. “There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.”

— Rand Paul

114. “And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.”

— Rand Paul

115. “My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.”

— Rand Paul

116. “Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.”

— Rand Paul

117. “You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.”

— Rand Paul

118. “What I’ve always said is that I’m opposed to institutional racism, and I would’ve, had I’ve been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.”

— Rand Paul

119. “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 then in the next breath say, ‘Bring me home some bacon.’ The pig has been picked clean.”

— Rand Paul

120. “We didn’t create ISIS – ISIS created themselves, but we will stop them, and one of the ways we stop them is by not funding them, and not arming them.”

— Rand Paul

121. “Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.”

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

123. “Perhaps it is time to be more careful what we ask government to do, and where we allow it to become part of our lives.”

— Rand Paul

124. “This whole sort of ‘war on women’ sort of thing, I’m scratching my head because if there was a war on women, I think they won.”

— Rand Paul

125. “To put everyone in government housing and food stamps and bring them in from around the world I think is a mistake. To give of your own money, I’ve given to my church. My church has helped people that came from Bosnia. That’s a good thing.”

— Rand Paul

126. “We need to be fearful of companies that get so big that they can actually be directing policy.”

— Rand Paul

127. “I want to see the original long-form certificate of Donald Trump’s Republican registration.”

— Rand Paul

128. “We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We’re borrowing a million dollars a minute.”

— Rand Paul

129. “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 the only country I know of where a person can come in illegally and that baby becomes a citizen and I think that should stop also.”

— Rand Paul

130. “The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.”

— Rand Paul

131. “Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.”

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

134. “Well, let’s be clear I’m the only one on the stage who actually has a five-year budget that balances.”

— Rand Paul

135. “What is immoral for an individual to do, is immoral for a government to do.”

— Rand Paul

136. “I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.”

— Rand Paul

137. “I think the entire world knows, and North Korea knows, that if they used any weapons on our soldiers they would be obliterated. And it would be an overwhelming response.”

— Rand Paul

138. “You don’t win as a party unless you become a bigger party.”

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

140. “I would have voted ‘no’ on the Iraq war and ‘yes’ to Afghanistan.”

— Rand Paul

141. “If you are accused of being associated with terrorism, which could mean you are an Arab- American and you’ve sent e-mails to a relative in the Middle East, you should get your day in court, and I think you should get a lawyer and a trial, and I think most Americans agree to that.”

— Rand Paul

142. “I was told I got 10 measly minutes, but just in case, I brought 13 hours worth of material.”

— Rand Paul

143. “Roll back federal spending to 2008 levels.”

— Rand Paul

144. “No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.”

— Rand Paul

145. “What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there’s still waste in the military budget.”

— Rand Paul

146. “I think we’ve made the collection haystack so big, no one’s ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause.”

— Rand Paul

147. “Should it be prohibited for private entities such as a church, bed-and-breakfast or retirement neighborhood that doesn’t want noisy children? Absolutely not. Decisions concerning private property and associations should in a free society be unhindered.”

— Rand Paul

148. “Whether or not regime change is a good idea or a bad idea. I don’t think because I think the regime change was a bad idea it means that Hussein was necessarily a good idea.”

— Rand Paul

149. “I don’t think I’m really open to having Washington change me.”

— Rand Paul

150. “Conservatives point out the shortages, food lines, and outright famines in Venezuela, Stalin’s Russia, and Mao’s China, while American socialists stubbornly cling to the only “socialist” model left that has any claim to success – Scandinavia. Unfortunately for them, the so-called socialist success of Scandinavia is, in fact, due to good old-fashioned private property and capitalism!”

— Rand Paul