Top 250 Rand Paul Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

155. “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

156. “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

157. “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

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

— Rand Paul

159. “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

160. “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

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

— Rand Paul

162. “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

163. “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

164. “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

165. “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

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

— Rand Paul

167. “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

168. “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

169. “We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.”

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

171. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

175. “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

176. “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

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

— Rand Paul

178. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

183. “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

184. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

188. “We had people coming to our Foreign Relations Committee and saying, “Oh, we need to arm the allies of Al Qaida.” They are still saying this. It is a crazy notion. This is the biggest debate we should be having is is regime change a good idea; has it been a good idea.”

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

190. “There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.”

— Rand Paul

191. “Al Qaeda has been placed on the run, but not destroyed.”

— Rand Paul

192. “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

193. “People don’t like to vote against something that’s so incredibly popular.”

— Rand Paul

194. “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

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

— Rand Paul

196. “The point is that when we allow arguments to degenerate into emotions and platitudes we lose track of two important things. 1. Are the current regulations actually working? 2. Will the new regulations mean loss of jobs?”

— Rand Paul

197. “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

198. “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

199. “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

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

— Rand Paul