Quotes By Rand Paul

I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

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.

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.

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

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.

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

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.'

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 would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

I don't plan on being bashful.

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

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

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

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.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

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

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.