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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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
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I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.
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We have to have a more realistic foreign policy and not a utopian one where we say, oh, we're going to spread freedom and democracy, and everybody in the Middle East is going to love us. They are not going to love us.
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I think that we have to be very careful about who comes here from the Middle East.
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There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response.
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Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.
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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.
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I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.
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I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health is a great idea.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
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Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.
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I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.