Quotes from Rand Paul

We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.

Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.

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

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.

It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money.

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

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

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

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

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

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.

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.

The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

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.

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.

Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.