Rand Paul
Rand Paul
Randal Howard "Rand" Paulis an American politician and physician. Since 2011, Paul has served in the United States Senate as a member of the Republican Party representing Kentucky. He is the son of former U.S. Representative Ron Paul of Texas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 January 1963
CountryUnited States of America
messages establishment clear
You can send a clear message to the establishment
taxes
The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
government buying financial
We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
president borders border-security
There was a conservative consensus for an amendment I put forward called Trust, But Verify that would have strengthened border security on both refugees, students and those coming here. And Marco sided and I guess was more sympathetic to Chuck Schumer and to the president than he was to conservative principles.
jobs opportunity hiding-in-the-shadows
We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let's make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let's make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.
party people needs
You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
believe republican platforms
The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.
body would-be tolerate
If there were an ounce of courage in this body I would be joined by other senators… saying they will not tolerate this.
party african-american liberty
And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
party ebola cocktails
If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party, they're contagious and you can catch it from them.
russia jumping iraq
My goodness, what we want in a leader is someone with judgment, not someone who is so reckless as to stand on the stage and say, "Yes, I'm jumping up and down; I'm going to shoot down Russian planes." Russia already flies in that airspace. It may not be something we're in love with the fact that they're there, but they were invited by Iraq and by Syria to fly in that airspace.
law congress
Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!
believe mean ideas
With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It's not an abstraction. I'm a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you're going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses.
judging president executioners
No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner