Top 250 Rand Paul Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

155. “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

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

— Rand Paul

157. “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

158. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

161. “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

162. “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

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

— Rand Paul

164. “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

165. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

174. “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

175. “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

176. “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

177. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

181. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

184. “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

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

— Rand Paul

186. “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

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

— Rand Paul

188. “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

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

— Rand Paul

190. “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

191. “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

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

— Rand Paul

193. “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

194. “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

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul

200. “I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.”

— Rand Paul