Rand Paul Quotes

How would you possibly sell 700 companies in a fire sale and hope to get what they were worth?It's just an unrealistic sort of standard they're trying to hold [Donald Trump] to.

I do want to see an immigration compromise. And you can't have an immigration compromise if everybody's out there calling the president a racist.

We are more polarized. And some of that comes from the people and some of that comes from the media.

I'm the leading voice in America for not arming the allies of ISIS.

The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base - get independent voters and voters who haven't been voting for your party to come to your party.

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

I'm an internationalist. I want to help others, not just kill terrorists.

When you ask yourself, whoever you are, that think you're going to support Donald Trump, think, do you believe in the Constitution? Are you going to change the Constitution?

If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of. It would defy every norm that is America.

I think those who have wanted regime [of Bashar Assad] change have made a mistake.

When we toppled [Muammar] Gadhafi in Libya, I think that was a mistake. I think ISIS grew stronger, we had a failed state, and we were more at risk.

I think we ought to quit sending [help] to countries that burn our flag.

I don't think we're actually using the constitutional tools that we have in an appropriate fashion.

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

I would pay to have those adjudications enrolled into the federal background system so we could detect people who are mentally ill before they buy a gun. That is a real problem.

I've introduced legislation to say, "For right now, let's stop it," from about 34 countries.

The government has investigated our program of collecting through a generalized fashion, everyone's phone records in the country. And they found that no terrorist case has been thwarted through this.

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

The people who get the ability to use force have to be watched carefully by civilians to make sure they don't use it excessively.

I think we're never fully protected, but I think we need to do everything we can to stop threats to us.

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.

Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy on us - you've got to watch the watchers.

We still need to secure our southern border. The other thing I would say is we need to secure who visits us in the country.

There's 150,000 students here from the Middle East. If 40% of them have overstayed their visa, don't we need to know where they are, what they're doing, are they obeying our rules?

I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism.

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.

In a reality, what we should be doing is having quiet diplomacy with the Russians to convince them that it's in their self-interest to have a more stable Middle East because trade enriches us all.

I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends.

Every gun regulation that President [Barack] Obama has advocated for, California has already. And it didn't stop terrorism.

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.

The Paris attack was highly sophisticated, well-planned, very clever, took months in the making, very much like 9/11. And there is a 9/11-style attack coming to America.

There are still people - the majority on the stage, they want to topple [Bashar] Assad. And then there will be chaos, and I think ISIS will then be in charge of Syria.

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.

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.

The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.

I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.

I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.

My dad was one of only four congressmen who supported Reagan.