Top 250 Rand Paul Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Rand Paul

103. “You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.”

— Rand Paul

104. “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

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

— Rand Paul

106. “There is often variations of evil on both sides of the war. What we have to decide is whether or not regime change is a good idea. It’s what the neoconservatives have wanted. It’s what the vast majority of those on the stage want.”

— Rand Paul

107. “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

108. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

111. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

115. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

118. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

121. “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

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

— Rand Paul

123. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

126. “We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we’ve cut every penny from corporate welfare.”

— Rand Paul

127. “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

128. “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

129. “I tell people I won’t vote to go to war unless I’m ready to go or send my kids.”

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

131. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

135. “My first choice had always been my father. He’s still my first pick. Now that the nominating process is over, tonight, I’m happy to announce that I’m going to be supporting Governor Romney.”

— Rand Paul

136. “The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there’s a self interest in this for everyone.”

— Rand Paul

137. “I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.”

— Rand Paul

138. “The Republican platform specifically says we don’t believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.”

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

140. “The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible – the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.”

— Rand Paul

141. “Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.”

— 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. “These attacks prove one thing for certain: the liberal establishment is desperate to keep leaders like me out of office, and we are sure to hear more wild, dishonest smears during this campaign.”

— Rand Paul

144. “Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?”

— Rand Paul

145. “The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it’s easier to win a libel suit.”

— Rand Paul

146. “The president began this program by executive order. He should immediately end it by executive order. For over a year now, he has said the program is illegal, and yet he does nothing.”

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

148. “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

149. “I don’t think I’ve ever used the word ‘gay rights,’ because I don’t really believe in rights based on your behavior.”

— Rand Paul

150. “Republicans traditionally say, ‘oh, we’ll cut domestic spending, but we won’t touch the military.’ The liberals – the ones who are good – will say, ‘oh, we’ll cut the military, but we won’t cut domestic spending.’”

— Rand Paul