Rand Paul
Rand Paul
Randal Howard "Rand" Paulis an American politician and physician. Since 2011, Paul has served in the United States Senate as a member of the Republican Party representing Kentucky. He is the son of former U.S. Representative Ron Paul of Texas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 January 1963
CountryUnited States of America
gossip people world
We live in a world, a medieval type of world, where someone can accuse you - through gossip and hearsay, and all of a sudden you're supposed to respond to specific charges from people you don't know, are not aware of who these people are, and you're supposed to respond to their specific allegations?
book iphone choices
Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me - they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are pogroms.
thinking middle-east careful
I think that we have to be very careful about who comes here from the Middle East.
country should-have rights
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.
pay conservative program
You can not be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you're not going to pay for.
phones records persons
You can tell a person's religion 85 percent of the time from their phone records.
jobs phones data
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.
giving-up liberty want
How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
country legislation right-now
I've introduced legislation to say, "For right now, let's stop it," from about 34 countries.
giving-up past thinking
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.
country fashion phones
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.
fashion thinking tools
I don't think we're actually using the constitutional tools that we have in an appropriate fashion.
party independent winning
The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base - get independent voters and voters who haven't been voting for your party to come to your party.
dollars projects minutes
We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.