We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.
Rand PaulIf you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health care... My staff and technicians provide it... If you have a right to health care, then you have a right to their labor.
Rand PaulYou can not be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you're not going to pay for.
Rand PaulI think there's a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don't think race is always the reason.
Rand PaulThe government has investigated our program of collecting through a generalized fashion, everyone's phone records in the country. And they found that no terrorist case has been thwarted through this.
Rand PaulThe question's whether or not there's an American interest in the Civil War [in Syria]. The question is whether or not a military strike on [Bashar] Assad will cause him to be encouraged to use more weapons or discouraged. It's easy enough to say - and the president [Barack Obama] says though this will teach him a lesson - but his military strike is intended not to target him individually, not to bring about regime change.
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