Rand Paul Quotes

Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security.

We need a revival in the country,” Paul said. “We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, 'reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform.'

The 11 million, I think, are never going home, don't need to be sent home, and I would incorporate them into our society by giving them work visas and making them taxpayers.

I'm not accusing anybody of being [Hitler].

I'm being unfairly targeted by a bunch of hacks and haters.

We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.

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

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

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

I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he fled, [because] that is what he faced.

What is immoral for an individual to do, is immoral for a government to do

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.

Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history?

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.

I'm the third of five children.

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

I say not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag.

We need a Republican Party that shows up on the South side of Chicago and shouts at the top of our lungs, 'We are the party of jobs and opportunity! The GOP is the ticket to the middle class.

I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.

2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time.

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

I think it's a conundrum. If we have no laws on this, people take it to one extension further, does it have to be humans, you know?

Our legislative victory - an end to earmarks.

The GOP of old has grown old and moss covered.

I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime ... unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party. And it has to be a transformation. Not a little tweaking at the edges.

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.

Really, while gas is an awful thing to watch - the death is painful - to even watch these deaths - it's also bad to die from a bullet, a hand grenade, or a machete.

The one way, possibly, out of this is for [Bashar] Assad to abdicate and plead, perhaps to Russia or somewhere else. Would save another wave of civilian casualties if we could get him to abdicate.

For example, the use of chemical weapons [in Syria]- some on the Democrat side have said well, this encourages the North Koreans to use chemical weapons against our troops.

I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic rebels to be in charge of Syria either.

I just can't vote to go to war unless I think there's a real clear-cut American purpose in the war, that we're going to win and that we're not going fight for stalemate.

We should understand the limitations of war. We should understand the sacrifices our young men and women go through losing lives and limbs. And they should only do it for the highest of purposes.

I think that by arming the allies of ISIS, the Islamic rebels against [Bashar] Assad, that we created a safe space or made that space bigger for ISIS to grow.

There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making.

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

The separation of powers is about legislative powers. It isn't about discussion or words.

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.

John McCain's complaint is we're either not at war somewhere, or if we're at war, we leave too soon. So we're not there soon enough, and he wants us to stay forever wherever we send troops.

Hardened terrorists are coming here to hit us hard if we don't hit them first.

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

John McCain is the guy that has advocated for war everywhere. He would bankrupt the nation.

We don't have enough money to rebuild our own country if we're rebuilding everyone else's countries.

Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.

The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect.

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.

We should offer the American public less expensive insurance.

America does not need to continue to have regime change throughout the world, nation-building.

We're for the balanced budget amendment and yet the budget we're going to introduce, that we're going to repeal Obamacare with never balances.

I won't support any budget, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat budget, that doesn't lead to balance.