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• The other thing to realize is that almost all these shootings, including this shooting [in San-Bernardino], happened in a government building where people are not allowed to defend themselves. While it's not the ultimate answer, the ultimate answer would be no violence, part of the answer is saying, "We need to allow people to defend themselves."

  Rand Paul

  Government, People, Would Be

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 40 percent of people who come to visit America on a visa overstay their visa and we have no idea where they are. On 9/11, at least 2 of the hijackers were here on visa. They were traveling back and forth to the Middle East. And we really had no idea where they were or what they were doing. And they were overstaying their visa. So there are problems I think in the immigration system that need to be fixed for our safety.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Ideas, America

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Whether or not regime change is a good idea or a bad idea. I don't think because I think the regime change was a bad idea it means that Hussein was necessarily a good idea.

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  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

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• If Americans were attacked, it does change the equation. The problem is, is that with regard to this is there've been horrendous killings of civilians with conventional weapons.

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  Weapons, Doe, Problem

  "Rand Paul On Syria: 'I Think There's Evil On Both Sides'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.

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• 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

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• I think we're never fully protected, but I think we need to do everything we can to stop threats to us.

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  Thinking, Needs, Threat

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think there's a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don't think race is always the reason.

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  Thinking, Race, America

  "Nine pre-debate questions with Rand Paul". Interview David Weigel, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2015.

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• Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy on us - you've got to watch the watchers.

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  People, Giving, Spy

  "Nine pre-debate questions with Rand Paul". Interview with David Weigel, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2015.

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• The people who get the ability to use force have to be watched carefully by civilians to make sure they don't use it excessively.

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  People, Use, Force

  "Nine pre-debate questions with Rand Paul". Interview with David Weigel, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2015.

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• If Senator Rubio were doing his job and in Congress more, he might know that the program 'phone records of a potential terrorist cause' continues. It's been ongoing for the last six months. So the Paris tragedy, this tragedy happened while we were still doing bulk collection, all bulk collection. Also in France, they have a program a thousand-fold more invasive, collecting all of the data of all of the French.

  Rand Paul

  Jobs, Data, Paris

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

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• 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.

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  Country, Fashion, Phones

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

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• I think what we've had in the past is the government has said, "Well, we need to collect the whole haystack." And the haystack is Americans' privacy. Every Americans' privacy. We have to give up all of our privacy.

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  Giving Up, Past, Thinking

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

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• I think that we have to be very careful about who comes here from the Middle East.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Middle East, Careful

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Country, Should Have, Rights

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

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• I think it's a huge mistake. I think regime change in Syria, and this is what - I've been saying this for several years now. In 2013 when we first went in, I said, you are going to give arms to the allies of al Qaida, to radical jihadists? That's crazy.

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  Crazy, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• There was a conservative consensus for an amendment I put forward called Trust, But Verify that would have strengthened border security on both refugees, students and those coming here. And Marco sided and I guess was more sympathetic to Chuck Schumer and to the president than he was to conservative principles.

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  President, Principles, Borders

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• What my bill would do would be only for refugees going forward. So I haven't taken a position on sending anyone home. But I have taken the position that we have a lot of problems here in our country. And that one of the things that we do - charity is about giving your own money. Charity isn't giving someone else's money.

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  Country, Taken, Home

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• To put everyone in government housing and food stamps and bring them in from around the world I think is a mistake. To give of your own money, I've given to my church. My church has helped people that came from Bosnia. That's a good thing.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Government

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I think there is some overreach in the sense that the EPA now says: if Congress doesn't pass greenhouse emissions regulations or testing, we'll simply do it on our own. I think that's an arrogance of a regulatory body run amok.

  Rand Paul

  Running, Thinking, Arrogance

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• My worry now is that many people are talking about a partial repeal of Obamacare. If you only repeal part of it and you leave if some sort of Obamacare light, which some are talking about, my fear is the situation actually gets worse.

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  Light, Talking, Obamacare

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The fundamental problem of Obamacare is the insurance mandates. When you mandate what has to be insurance, it elevates the price. And when you tell people they can buy insurance after they're sick, they will. And you get what's called adverse selection.

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  Obamacare, People, Sick

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• 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.

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  Country, Military, Fighting

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think it's a real debate how big NATO should be and whether or not it's more provocative than good. Whenever there's a war fought, our soldiers fight it and our dollars pay for it. And, really, our decisions need to be about our national security.

  Rand Paul

  Real, War, Fighting

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• 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

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