Top 250 Rand Paul Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I think really that you shouldn’t run as a conservative if you’re not.”

— Rand Paul

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

— 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. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

108. “The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person’s vision.”

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

111. “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

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

— Rand Paul

113. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

117. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

124. “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

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

— Rand Paul

126. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

129. “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

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

— Rand Paul

131. “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

132. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

136. “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

137. “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

138. “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

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

— Rand Paul

140. “Republicans who criticize the use of two languages, I think, make a great mistake.”

— Rand Paul

141. “I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.”

— Rand Paul

142. “Today’s left would have us forget that the pseudo-science of eugenics was once all the rage among socialists.”

— Rand Paul

143. “The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.”

— Rand Paul

144. “You shouldn’t have one opinion when you’re running and another when you’re president.”

— Rand Paul

145. “We are borrowing $40,000 per second.”

— Rand Paul

146. “We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.”

— Rand Paul

147. “People who want to come to this country don’t have constitutional rights. Once they get here, they do. But coming here is not a constitutional right. So with do, as a nation, have the ability and should have the ability to decide who comes here and when they come here.”

— Rand Paul

148. “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

149. “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

150. “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