Quotes from Rand Paul

The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money.

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 defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.

As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.

I think a lot of things could be handled locally.

As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.

In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.

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

Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.

I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.

I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.

I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.

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

I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.

When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.

I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.

If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat?

I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.

You can tell a person's religion 85 percent of the time from their phone records.

Perhaps it is time to be more careful what we ask government to do, and where we allow it to become part of our lives.

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.

Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.