Rand Paul Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.

  Rand Paul

  Running, Country, Government

  "Rand Paul Announces He’s Running For President In 2016" by Paige Lavender, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2015.

• The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we can’t separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Hate, People

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Jul 19, 2013

• We have to decide whether our fear is going to get the better of us. Once upon a time we had a standard in our country that was 'innocent until proven guilty.' We've given up on so much. Now, people are talking about a standard that is 'if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.' Think about it. Is that the standard we're willing to live under?

  Rand Paul

  Country, Thinking, Talking

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from May 22, 2015

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

  Rand Paul

  Dream, Country, Grandfather

  Rand Paul's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Forida, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

• I hate that Mosul is falling, but I also think that for 10 years we have supplied the Iraqis and they can't stand up and do anything to defend their country, and it is all up to us?

  Rand Paul

  Country, Hate, Military

  "Paul, Rubio differ on Iraq action" by Katie Glueck, www.politico.com. June 13, 2014.

• The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Government, Jim Crow Laws

• We still need to secure our southern border. The other thing I would say is we need to secure who visits us in the country.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Southern, Borders

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• The 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 Paul

  Country, Fashion, Phones

  "Meet the Press". www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2015.

• This is an ongoing threat from a variety of sources around the world. And actually I think it works both ways. I'm not privy to it, but I think all of the various country that have the ability are invading each other's computers all the time. But we have to protect our data. It's very important.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Thinking, Data

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'

  Rand Paul

  Country, People, Envy

• I would have handled it differently than the mayor of Baltimore, that's for sure. I think it's a mistake to say, hey, guys, you can pillage the city for a while and we'll let that go, and we'll be sort of standing back. I think it's also important to know some of the underlying causes of why there's unease in our country.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I've introduced legislation to say, "For right now, let's stop it," from about 34 countries.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Legislation, Right Now

  "Meet the Press". www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2015.

• We don't have enough money to rebuild our own country if we're rebuilding everyone else's countries.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Rebuilding, Enough

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I'm not opposed to letting people work and labor in our country, but we shouldn't provide an easy route to citizenship. We're the only country I know of where a person can come in illegally and that baby becomes a citizen and I think that should stop also.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Baby, Thinking

• People who want to come to this country don't have constitutional rights. Once they get here, they do. But coming here is not a constitutional right. So with do, as a nation, have the ability and should have the ability to decide who comes here and when they come here.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Should Have, Rights

  "Meet the Press". www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2015.

• Currently, the United States has troops in dozens of countries and is actively fighting in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen (with the occasional drone strike in Pakistan). In addition, the United States is pledged to defend 28 countries in NATO. It is unwise to expand the monetary and military obligations of the United States given the burden of our $20 trillion debt.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Military, Fighting

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• We need a revival in the country,” Paul said. “We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, 'reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform.'

  Rand Paul

  Country, People, Reform

• I don't think we're doing an adequate vetting process of those who are coming to our country.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Thinking, Adequate

  "Meet the Press". www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2015.

• President Obama, I think, wanted what was best for the country, but I think it didn't work well. I think we have the death spiral, and I think particularly premiums in the individual market are going through the roof. Republicans want what's best for the country, but I think they're not fixing the death spiral of Obamacare. They're going to subsidize it with a lot of taxpayer money. So, characterizing something as mean or generous I think goes to people's motives, and I think it is sort of why we have such an angry country now. We think that people have ill motives.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I've put pencil to paper... and I've said I would cut spending, and I've said exactly where. Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Hate, Taken

  Rand Paul during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

• We have 11 million people said to be in our country illegally. Forty percent of them are said to have overstayed their visa. Do we know where they are?

  Rand Paul

  Country, People, Said

  "Meet the Press". www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2015.

• What I can say is, is that if you do a poll, and one of the worldwide polling companies did this, and they asked people in 50 countries, "Would you like to come to America," it's about 700 million would come next year. We would double our population.

  Rand Paul

  Country, People

• Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Rich Countries, People

  "Rand Paul: Foreign Aid Goes From Poor People In Rich Countries To Rich People In Poor Countries". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 3, 2013.

• I think we ought to quit sending [help] to countries that burn our flag.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Thinking, Flags

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• 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.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Winning, Suits

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