My first choice had always been my father. He’s still my first pick. Now that the nominating process is over, tonight, I’m happy to announce that I’m going to be supporting Governor Romney. – Rand Paul
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. – Rand Paul
When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we’ve become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage. – Rand Paul
No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act. – Rand Paul
I don’t care if you’re a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone. – Rand Paul
If you have ‘too big to fail’ for cities or for states, and they believe they’ll be bailed out, they’ll continue to make unwise decisions. – Rand Paul
In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days’ worth of phone records for a single individual were not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The NSA today, though, collects hundreds of millions of phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans without an individualized warrant. – Rand Paul
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective. – Rand Paul
We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community. – Rand Paul
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. – Rand Paul
I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future. – Rand Paul
There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes, those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you lovers of liberty rise to the occasion? – Rand Paul
I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town – you could go anywhere. – Rand Paul
My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget. – Rand Paul
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. – Rand Paul
Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson? – Rand Paul
I think it’s a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant – but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership. – 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