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Rand Paul
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 7
Ophthalmologist
Physician
Politician
United States Senator
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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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.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
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I'm here in Whoopi Goldberg's office trying to choose some shoes. We've seen [Marco] Rubio has those cool new boots and I don't want to be outdone.
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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.
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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?
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The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.
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The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone.
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We are more polarized. And some of that comes from the people and some of that comes from the media.
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I can tell you who's planning terroris attacks. The leaders of ISIL. And I can tell you where they're at. They're in Raqqa, Syria. So for God's sakes, Mr. President Barack Obama , change your strategy. Come up with a ground force to go in and destroy the caliphate before we get hit here at home. That would be my advice to you.
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On the Gang of Eight bill, there was no provisions really for extra scrutiny or safety for refugees. At the time the bill came up, two Iraqi refugees came to my home town, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Their fingerprints were on a bomb from Iraq. They were in the database, but we didn't pick them up.
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If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they're contagious and you can catch it from them.
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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.
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We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.
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Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!
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If there are few conservatives in the senate wing of the Republican Party that will say no to a budget that never balances, we could have the power to say to the leadership, you know what, need a better budget.
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The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.
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Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.
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