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
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I think there are 48 federal agencies that have SWAT teams.
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Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.
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Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.
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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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Roll back federal spending to 2008 levels.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
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Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.
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Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.
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What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.
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What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
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We woke up one day, and Pakistan had nuclear weapons.
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Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?