Quotes from Rand Paul

As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.

We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.

I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.

Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.

I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'

In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.

My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.

The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?

You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.

How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.

In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?

The world does not have an Islam problem; the world has a dignity problem.

I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.

Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in America.

I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.

I think my dad has helped me tremendously.

Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.

I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.