Quotes By Rand Paul

You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.

You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.

I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

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.

My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating process is over, tonight, I'm happy to announce that I'm going to be supporting Governor Romney.

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.'

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

I don't plan on being bashful.

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

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.

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

I think my dad has helped me tremendously.

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.

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?