Rand Paul quote: "The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit."

Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending...
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I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really belie...
RAND PAUL

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
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People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twist...
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I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health i...
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Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don...
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You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
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As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
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Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often ...
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How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Con...
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We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-ric...
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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to b...
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The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese American...
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The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administer...
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism...
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds th...
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The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.
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Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all...
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Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. wi...
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I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American...
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Bulk collection of phone records didn't find or stop the Tsarnaev brothers from the massacre in ...
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I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our ...
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Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
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Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's ...
RAND PAUL

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
PAUL RAND

In the West, we look at art through life. Well, that's one way of living. In the Orient they loo...
PAUL RAND

I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
RAND PAUL

The principal role of a logo is to identify, and simplicity is its means... Its effectiveness depend...
PAUL RAND

Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.
RAND PAUL

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definit...
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Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: ta...
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Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without subst...
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Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arr...
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If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don&...
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There's a certain kind of research you have to listen to - the factual stuff, not opinion. Facts...
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Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.
PAUL RAND

Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two...
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Design is everything. Everything!
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Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymme...
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The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.
PAUL RAND

I was too practical to want to be a painter.
PAUL RAND

If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy t...
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Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer'...
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Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that frag...
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I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of ...
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Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in har...
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A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written ...
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You can't criticize geometry. It's never wrong.
PAUL RAND

I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity...
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I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republi...
RAND PAUL

It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.
RAND PAUL

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and a...
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I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth...
RAND PAUL

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil right...
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
RAND PAUL

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipati...
RAND PAUL

Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but eve...
RAND PAUL

If you go to prison, your child support adds up.
RAND PAUL

America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
RAND PAUL

To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and me...
PAUL RAND

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or...
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you ...
RAND PAUL

Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent eleme...
PAUL RAND

I don't plan on being bashful.
RAND PAUL

I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've in...
RAND PAUL

The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and ...
RAND PAUL

Ideas do not need to be esoteric to be original or exciting.
PAUL RAND

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and tha...
RAND PAUL

We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
RAND PAUL

The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, ...
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The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a ...
RAND PAUL

The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rig...
RAND PAUL

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led t...
RAND PAUL

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of c...
RAND PAUL

The realization is dawning that government doesn't work. In Silicon Valley, they already get thi...
RAND PAUL

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.
PAUL RAND

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
RAND PAUL

I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound me...
RAND PAUL

Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
RAND PAUL

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
PAUL RAND

The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. J...
RAND PAUL

I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less t...
RAND PAUL

Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in...
RAND PAUL

The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear... They very specificall...
RAND PAUL

As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan w...
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My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating pro...
RAND PAUL

Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigaret...
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I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who ...
RAND PAUL

There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate,...
RAND PAUL

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, b...
RAND PAUL

If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sendi...
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservative...
RAND PAUL

William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going throug...
RAND PAUL

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-fil...
RAND PAUL

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definit...
PAUL RAND

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's jo...
PAUL RAND

The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, b...
RAND PAUL

I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictat...
RAND PAUL

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.
RAND PAUL

Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that fo...
RAND PAUL

Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have conclud...
RAND PAUL

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I...
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I stand firm that I believe the numbers speak for themselves in terms of all that we've done,
PAUL RAND

The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.
RAND PAUL

I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We&#...
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In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days' worth of phone record...
RAND PAUL

Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.
RAND PAUL

Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably oppos...
RAND PAUL

The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes,...
RAND PAUL

Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. Hig...
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I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reaso...
RAND PAUL

I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do somethin...
RAND PAUL

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Pa...
RAND PAUL

My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.
RAND PAUL

Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar cliches or a wild scramble fo...
PAUL RAND

I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the Americ...
RAND PAUL

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's sti...
RAND PAUL

Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to...
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can ...
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The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs ...
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Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the p...
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The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
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I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same ...
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As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamaca...
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Everything is design. Everything!
PAUL RAND

I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approache...
RAND PAUL

What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
RAND PAUL

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
RAND PAUL

You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
RAND PAUL

You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're ...
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What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rig...
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If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of o...
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I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
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I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, ...
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You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats ...
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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I ran for office originally as part of this Tea Party Movement because we were upset with Republican...
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductib...
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone record...
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The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our...
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I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of libert...
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The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusias...
PAUL RAND

In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressma...
RAND PAUL

92% of respondents reported that a positive recommendation from a friend,
family member, or som...
PAUL M. RAND

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
AYN RAND

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public...
AYN RAND

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
AYN RAND

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
AYN RAND

I'm the original.
SALLY RAND

When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
SALLY RAND

I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
SALLY RAND

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.
SALLY RAND

They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a canno...
SALLY RAND

What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmot...
SALLY RAND

If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.
SALLY RAND

I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.
SALLY RAND

You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be ...
RAND BEERS

Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document tha...
RAND BEERS

I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese...
RAND BEERS

Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageabl...
RAND BEERS

The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associa...
RAND BEERS

We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been d...
RAND BEERS

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
AYN RAND

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain o...
AYN RAND

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
AYN RAND

Envy is the only name she could find for the monstrous thing she faced, but it was much worse...
AYN RAND

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of ...
AYN RAND

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
AYN RAND

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
AYN RAND

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
AYN RAND

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises....
AYN RAND

He had always wanted to write Music and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If y...
AYN RAND

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
AYN RAND

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
AYN RAND

America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive g...
AYN RAND

Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a paymen...
AYN RAND

Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their fa...
AYN RAND

The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most ...
AYN RAND

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on...
AYN RAND

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
AYN RAND

It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an au...
AYN RAND

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an ac...
AYN RAND

...Aren’t they all acting on a selfish motive—to be noticed, liked, admired?”
“—by ot...
AYN RAND

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-...
AYN RAND

Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, i...
AYN RAND

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, t...
AYN RAND

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but t...
AYN RAND

Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touc...
AYN RAND

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but...
AYN RAND

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my...
AYN RAND

People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Refl...
AYN RAND

She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each ...
AYN RAND

I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.
AYN RAND

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline t...
AYN RAND

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
AYN RAND

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not...
AYN RAND

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
AYN RAND

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.

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The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.

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