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
false forever personal security
The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
anybody bothered men pointed vehicles
Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?
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Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.
everybody government implicit
You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.
irregular radical simply
The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.
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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.
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Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.
difference legitimate peace response role
There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response.
In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
horribly
I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.
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I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less than stellar human rights records, because I believe that once enslaved people taste freedom and see the products of capitalism, they will become hungry for freedom themselves.
arrest warrants
Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
mostly
In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.