Quotes from Rand Paul

I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.

The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.

The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court.

I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.

I'm a Reagan conservative. Reagan did negotiate with the Soviets. But you have to negotiate from a position of strength.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.

I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.

William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.

I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.

Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.

I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

We woke up one day, and Pakistan had nuclear weapons.

In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'

I'm the third of five children.

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.

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

America has much greatness left in her.

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

I give thousands of interviews, and I'm probably about as open as anybody in Washington as far as access goes, so I'll continue to do that.

I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.

Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.