Quotes from Rand Paul

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

I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.

We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

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

Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot.

People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

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

I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

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.

I don't plan on being bashful.

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

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

I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.

You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.

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

Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.

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.

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.

It seems the most common thing for serial interventionists to do these days is to lob the term 'isolationist' at anyone who does not agree with their latest folly, and then set up a straw man about those people not wanting to be involved in the world.

Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.

In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days' worth of phone records for a single individual were not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The NSA today, though, collects hundreds of millions of phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans without an individualized warrant.