4/7/15
20 Rand Paul Quotes That Tell You Everything You Need to Know

So Senator Rand Paul is running for president. The good news is, there’s no need to do any hard-core investigative reporting in order to figure out if he’s the man for the job. His own oh-so-quotabe quotes tell you everything you need to know. You know, whichever way you’re planning on voting.

1. “My opponents call me a libertarian but I want to assure you that I am 100% pro-life.”

2. “I’m not going to change who I am or what I believe in. I am an old-fashioned traditionalist. I believe in the historical definition of marriage. That being said, I think contracts between adults — I’m not for limiting contracts between adults. In fact, if there are ways to make the tax code more neutral where it doesn’t mention the word marriage, then we don’t have to redefine what marriage is. We just don’t have marriage in the tax code. If health benefits are a problem, why don’t we not define them by marriage? Why don’t we say, you have another adult who lives in the house, and a kid who lives in the house can be part of family coverage? Then you don’t have to redefine, and have people like myself, and people who live in the southeastern part of the country, we don’t have to change our definition of what we think marriage is, but we allow contracts to occur so there is more ability to [make] the law neutral.”

3. “I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.”

4. “The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death of 50 million unborn children in the last 40 years. I don’t think a civilization can long endure that does not have respect for all human life, born and not yet born. I believe there will come a time when we are all judged on whether or not we took a stand in defense of all life from the moment of conception until our last natural breath.”

5. “As a doctor I will make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare and repeal every last bit of it.”

6. “If we have no laws on [gay marriage] people take it to one extension further. Does it have to be humans?”

7. “The Life at Conception Act [proposed by Rand] legislatively declares what most Americans believe and what science has long known — that human life begins at the moment of conception, and therefore is entitled to legal protection from that point forward. The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all Members of Congress.”

8. “The First Amendment says keep government out of religion, not religion out of government.”

9. “With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses.”

10. “I never, ever cheated [at med school]. I don’t condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important.”

11. “Maybe we have to say ‘Enough’s enough, you shouldn’t be having kids after a certain amount.’ … “[Being] married with kids versus unmarried with kids is the difference between living in poverty and not. We should sell that message. Not in a mean way to tell people who already have made a bad decision, but if you’ve had one child and you’re not married, you shouldn’t have another one.”

12. “Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be ‘constitutional’ does not make it so.”

13. “I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form; I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race. We still do have private clubs in America that can discriminate based on race. But I think what’s important about this debate is not written into any specific “gotcha” on this, but asking the question: what about freedom of speech? Should we limit speech from people we find abhorrent? Should we limit racists from speaking? I don’t want to be associated with those people, but I also don’t want to limit their speech in any way in the sense that we tolerate boorish and uncivilized behavior because that’s one of the things freedom requires is that we allow people to be boorish and uncivilized, but that doesn’t mean we approve of it. I think the problem with this debate is by getting muddled down into it, the implication is somehow that I would approve of any racism or discrimination, and I don’t in any form or fashion.”

14. “[It is a] moral crisis that allows people to think that there would be some sort of other marriage.”

15. “A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.”

16. “I believe life begins at conception and it is the duty of our government to protect this life…. I have stated many times that I will always vote for any and all legislation that would end abortion or lead us in the direction of ending abortion.”

17. “As humans, yeah, we do have an obligation to give people water, to give people food, to give people health care. … But it’s not a right, because once you conscript people and say, ‘Oh, it’s a right,’ then really you’re in charge, it’s servitude, you’re in charge of me and I’m supposed to do whatever you tell me to do. … It really shouldn’t be seen that way.”

18. “Unless you want a government that can enter your house at will, check to see if you have trigger locks, measure the length of your guns and rapidity of their ability to fire, you must oppose violations of the Fourth Amendment like the PATRIOT Act.”

19. “I don’t think I’m really open to having Washington change me.”

20. “I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.”

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One Comment

  1. This guy makes me sick. The more I read about him, the more afraid I am for the future of our country. A doctor AND an anti-vaxxer? It’s hard to believe how ignorant he seems. Gotta love his mention of the right to healthcare where he equates being a doctor to being a slave. Blech.

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