Rand Paul Quotes

I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That's always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy. ~ Rand Paul

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. ~ Paul Rand

The president began this program by executive order. He should immediately end it by executive order. For over a year now, he has said the program is illegal, and yet he does nothing. ~ Rand Paul

I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them. ~ Rand Paul

In a reality, what we should be doing is having quiet diplomacy with the Russians to convince them that it's in their self-interest to have a more stable Middle East because trade enriches us all. ~ Rand Paul

We need to be fearful of companies that get so big that they can actually be directing policy. ~ Rand Paul

Freedom is popular. Bring it on. ~ Rand Paul

Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security. ~ Rand Paul

I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are. ~ Rand Paul

The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets. ~ Rand Paul

Rand Paul ... said national health insurance is slavery. He said, I'm a physician, and if there's national health insurance, the government is forcing me to take care of somebody who is ill. Why should I be a slave to the state? Here we're getting capitalist pathology in its most extreme, lunatic form. It is the opposite of solidarity, mutual support, mutual help. ~ Noam Chomsky

I never did calligraphy ... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism ... It's part of that asceticism. ~ Paul Rand

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

I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me. ~ Rand Paul

Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit. ~ Rand Paul

Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.' ~ Rand Paul

If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy to believe that a logo will do its job immediately, before an audience has been properly conditioned. ~ Paul Rand

92% of respondents reported that a positive recommendation from a friend,
family member, or someone they trust is the biggest influence on whether they buy a product or service. ~ Paul M. Rand

I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines. ~ Rand Paul

During the CPAC conference, Rand Paul told the crowd it was time for a new president and that people need to help make the change. Of course, most people agreed with him, since that's how term limits work. ~ Jimmy Fallon

Join us in the fight to defeat the Washington machine. It's fun and easy to get started. You can make a difference and change the direction of our country! Join today. ~ Rand Paul

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war. ~ Rand Paul

We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves. ~ Rand Paul

I'll tell you what a weakness is of this country [the USA]: there are a lot of people who are sick and tired because Washington does not play by the same rules that the American people have to play by. ~ Rand Paul

I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime. ~ Rand Paul

Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have. ~ Nancy Gibbs

The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy. ~ Rand Paul

I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation. ~ Rand Paul

If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rand Paul filibustering for 13 hours, that was viewed as a fringe issue, as a quixotic issue, and yet millions of Americans engaged, spoke up, got online. ~ Ted Cruz

Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts. ~ Paul Rand

There's 150,000 students here from the Middle East. If 40% of them have overstayed their visa, don't we need to know where they are, what they're doing, are they obeying our rules? ~ Rand Paul

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free. ~ Paul Rand

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history. ~ Rand Paul

We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare. ~ Rand Paul

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

You don't go into politics unless you want to win. ~ Rand Paul

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently. ~ Rand Paul

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism. ~ Rand Paul

Rand Paul is officially running for president. He even revealed his campaign slogan, which is 'Defeat the Washington machine. Unleash the American dream.' It's hard to tell if he's running for president or doing an infomercial for Bowflex. ~ Jimmy Fallon

When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury-national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture-we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands. ~ Rand Paul

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry. ~ Rand Paul

The idea of ethnic cleansing was orthodox socialism for a century and more. ~ Rand Paul

In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.' ~ Rand Paul

As commander-in-chief, I will do whatever it takes to defend America. But in defending America, we cannot lose what America stands for. ~ Rand Paul

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

I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice. ~ Chuck Schumer

The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible. ~ Rand Paul

Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate. ~ Paul Rand

I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime ... unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party. And it has to be a transformation. Not a little tweaking at the edges. ~ Rand Paul

Roll back federal spending to 2008 levels. ~ Rand Paul

William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston. ~ Rand Paul

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community. ~ Rand Paul

I'm not for profiling people on the color of their skin, or on their religion, but I would take into account where they've been traveling and perhaps, you might have to indirectly take into account whether or not they've been going to radical political speeches by religious leaders. It wouldn't be that they are Islamic. But if someone is attending speeches from someone who is promoting the violent overthrow of our government, that's really an offense that we should be going after - they should be deported or put in prison. ~ Rand Paul

The 11 million, I think, are never going home, don't need to be sent home, and I would incorporate them into our society by giving them work visas and making them taxpayers. ~ Rand Paul

Is Donald Trump a serious candidate? The reason I ask this is, if you're going to close the Internet, realize, America, what that entails. That entails getting rid of the First amendment, ok? It's no small feat. ~ Rand Paul

I worry that the Senate is working to consider a series of little-noticed provisions in comprehensive immigration reform that may provide a pathway to a national ID card for all individuals present in the United States - citizens and noncitizens, ~ Rand Paul

Still people want to topple [Bashar] Assad. And then there will be chaos, and I think ISIS will then be in charge of Syria. ~ Rand Paul

I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder, and I'm the only one that leads Hillary Clinton in five states that were won by President Obama. I'm a different kind of Republican. ~ Rand Paul

Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar clichés or a wild scramble
for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing
effects without substance. Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form. ~ Paul Rand

If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut. ~ Rand Paul

I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids. ~ Rand Paul

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring. ~ Paul Rand

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. ~ Rand Paul

It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday. ~ Rand Paul

I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism. ~ Rand Paul

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. ~ Rand Paul

I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it ... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That's what modernism means to me. ~ Paul Rand

In the West, we look at art through life. Well, that's one way of living. In the Orient they look at life through art. They even drink their tea without sugar, for the same reason that they don't like a lot of frilly decorations on a painting. I can't stand butter on my bread for the same reason. I'm allergic to goo and rococo. ~ Paul Rand

I would pay to have those adjudications enrolled into the federal background system so we could detect people who are mentally ill before they buy a gun. That is a real problem. ~ Rand Paul

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white. ~ Rand Paul

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success. ~ Rand Paul

I think the vast majority of the American people say you shouldn't be able to collect my phone records if I'm not suspicious, if you don't have probable cause. ~ Rand Paul

We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles. ~ Rand Paul

The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision. ~ Rand Paul

The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the revolution over! ~ Rand Paul

I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere. ~ Rand Paul

Don't try to be original; just try to be good. ~ Paul Rand

Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day. ~ Rand Paul

Al Qaeda has been placed on the run, but not destroyed. ~ Rand Paul

Design is the silent ambassador of your brand. ~ Paul Rand

The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear ... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress. ~ Rand Paul

I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they're women, they're in positions because they're intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally. ~ Rand Paul

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die. ~ Rand Paul

I think you'll find that these are measures that have great bipartisan support, and so I expect, not only did we do well in the primary, I think we'll win by a wide margin in the fall because we're going to get a lot of independents and conservative Democrats coming to us. ~ Rand Paul

We woke up one day, and Pakistan had nuclear weapons. ~ Rand Paul

In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify. ~ Rand Paul

When I hear Rand Paul, who is much younger, saying wars are verkakte, I agree with him. ~ Chris Matthews

Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer ~ Rand Paul

I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs? ~ Rand Paul

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom. ~ Rand Paul

I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends; ~ Rand Paul

On Congress: "Nothing ever happens around here. ~ Rand Paul

Design is everything. Everything! ~ Paul Rand

Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in America. ~ Rand Paul

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values. ~ Rand Paul

I think that if you believe in regime change, you're mistaken. In 2013, we put 600 tons of weapons - us, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar - into the war against [Bashar] Assad. By pushing Assad back, we did create a safe space. ~ Rand Paul

Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid. ~ Rand Paul

Unless you really stand for something, people aren't motivated to go out and vote for you. ~ Rand Paul

Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting. ~ Rand Paul

I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias. ~ Rand Paul