Top 250 Rand Paul Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

152. “Our legislative victory – an end to earmarks.”

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

156. “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

157. “If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.”

— Rand Paul

158. “We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.”

— Rand Paul

159. “I think there’s a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don’t think race is always the reason.”

— Rand Paul

160. “My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.”

— Rand Paul

161. “Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.”

— Rand Paul

162. “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

163. “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

164. “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

165. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

170. “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

171. “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

172. “I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don’t want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.”

— Rand Paul

173. “Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we’re unhappy and that we want things done differently.”

— Rand Paul

174. “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

175. “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

176. “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

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

— Rand Paul

178. “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

179. “So why did I run? I tell people that I got tired of throwing things at my television, and that is at least partially true.”

— Rand Paul

180. “I’ve introduced legislation to say, “For right now, let’s stop it,” from about 34 countries.”

— Rand Paul

181. “The president’s rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect.”

— Rand Paul

182. “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

183. “Is Donald Trump a serious candidate? The reason I ask this is, if you’re going to close the Internet, realize, America, what that entails. That entails getting rid of the First amendment, ok? It’s no small feat.”

— Rand Paul

184. “I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.”

— Rand Paul

185. “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

186. “I think you’ll find that these are measures that have great bipartisan support, and so I expect, not only did we do well in the primary, I think we’ll win by a wide margin in the fall because we’re going to get a lot of independents and conservative Democrats coming to us.”

— Rand Paul

187. “The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn’t really calling and asking for money.”

— Rand Paul

188. “If Americans were attacked, it does change the equation. The problem is, is that with regard to this is there’ve been horrendous killings of civilians with conventional weapons.”

— Rand Paul

189. “You don’t go into politics unless you want to win.”

— Rand Paul

190. “With freedom comes responsibility and sometimes individuals don’t always make the right choices. When they don’t they pay the price, learn their lesson, and move on, better educated, situated and solvent.”

— Rand Paul

191. “I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.”

— Rand Paul

192. “You can tell a person’s religion 85 percent of the time from their phone records.”

— Rand Paul

193. “The GOP of old has grown old and moss covered.”

— Rand Paul

194. “I think that we have to be very careful about who comes here from the Middle East.”

— Rand Paul

195. “I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren’t too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are.”

— Rand Paul

196. “Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.”

— Rand Paul

197. “I’ve been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.”

— Rand Paul

198. “What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.”

— Rand Paul

199. “I don’t want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington.”

— Rand Paul

200. “All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.”

— Rand Paul