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According To This Woman, Who Requested Anonymity Because Of Her Current Job As A Clinical Psychologist, "he And Randy Came To My House, They Knocked On My Door, And Then They Blindfolded Me, Tied Me Up, And Put Me In Their Car. They Took Me To Their Apartment And Tried To Force Me To Take Bong Hits. They'd Been Smoking Pot."

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Rand Paul

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According To This Woman, Who Requested Anonymity Because Of Her Current Job As A Clinical Psychologist, "he And Randy Came To My House, They Knocked On My Door, And Then They Blindfolded Me, Tied Me Up, And Put Me In Their Car. They Took Me To Their Apartment And Tried To Force Me To Take Bong Hits. They'd Been Smoking Pot."

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According To This Woman, Who Requested Anonymity Because Of Her Current Job As A Clinical Psychologist, "he And Randy Came To My House, They Knocked On My Door, And Then They Blindfolded Me, Tied Me Up, And Put Me In Their Car. They Took Me To Their Apartment And Tried To Force Me To Take Bong Hits. They'd Been Smoking Pot."

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Do You Hate Poor People Or Do You Just Hate Poor People With Jobs?

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Federal Spending

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You Shouldn't Have One Opinion When You're Running And Another When You're President.

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African American

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I Think It's A Conundrum. If We Have No Laws On This, People Take It To One Extension Further, Does It Have To Be Humans, You Know?

Some People Say I Chastise The Republican Party Too Much.

The Fundamental Reason Why Medicare Is Failing Is Why The Soviet Union Failed - Socialism Doesn't Work.

We As Republicans Have Taken The Easy Way Out A Lot Of Times.

I Have Allowed The President To Pick His Political Appointees…but I Will Not Sit Quietly And Let Him Shred The Constitution.

You Have To Decide In Advance Whether You're Ready Go To War. If You Guys Are Ready To Send A Million Troops Into Ukraine And Fight World War Iii, You're Going To Do It Without My Support Because I Think That's A Really Foolish Notion.

How Much Liberty Do With Want To Give Up For A False Sense Of Security?

We Don't Have Enough Money To Rebuild Our Own Country If We're Rebuilding Everyone Else's Countries.

We Are More Polarized. And Some Of That Comes From The People And Some Of That Comes From The Media.

John Mccain Is The Guy That Has Advocated For War Everywhere. He Would Bankrupt The Nation.

Some In Washington Say That You Have To Trade Your Liberty For Security.

I Think Those Who Have Wanted Regime [of Bashar Assad] Change Have Made A Mistake.

You Don't Know Who The Next Group Is That's Unpopular. The Bill Of Rights Isn't For The Prom Queen. The Bill Of Rights Isn't For The High School Quarterback. The Bill Of Rights Is For The Least Among Us. The Bill Of Rights Is For Minorities. The Bill Of Rights Is For Those Who Have Minority Opinions.

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.

Toppling Secular Dictators In The Middle East Has Only Led To Chaos And The Rise Of Radical Islam.

The Insurance Companies Make About $15 Billion A Year. They Have Doubled Their Profit Margin Under Obamacare. And So Now We're Going To Take A Lot Of This And Call It A Stabilization Fund, But Really It's A Bailout Of Insurance Companies. And I Just Think That's Wrong. I Just Can't See Why Ordinary, Average Taxpayers Would Be Giving Money To Very, Very Wealthy Corporations. An Analogous Situation Would Be This: We All Complain That New Cars Cost Too Much. Why Don't We Have A New Car Stabilization Fund And Give $130 Billion To Car Companies?

When We Toppled [muammar] Gadhafi In Libya, I Think That Was A Mistake. I Think Isis Grew Stronger, We Had A Failed State, And We Were More At Risk.

I Think It's Fair To Point Out That There Is Bias In The Media On Both Sides, Both Right And Left. And That It's Very Hard To Find Objective News Because We Have Gotten, Particularly As You Watch Cable News, It's So Dominated By Opinion.

I Think That By Arming The Allies Of Isis, The Islamic Rebels Against [bashar] Assad, That We Created A Safe Space Or Made That Space Bigger For Isis To Grow.

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The Republican Party's History Is Rich And Chock Full Of Emancipation And Black History.

We Had People Coming To Our Foreign Relations Committee And Saying, "oh, We Need To Arm The Allies Of Al Qaida." They Are Still Saying This. It Is A Crazy Notion. This Is The Biggest Debate We Should Be Having Is Is Regime Change A Good Idea; Has It Been A Good Idea.

Does The Owner Of The Restaurant Own His Restaurant? Or Does The Government Own His Restaurant?

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2007 Was A Long Time Ago, And Events Do Change Over Long Periods Of Time.

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I Think We Have A Tea Party Mandate, And That Tea Party Mandate Is For Good-government Type Of Things, Things Like Term Limits, Things Like A Balanced Budget Amendment, Things Like Read The Bills For Goodness Sakes, Things Like That Maybe Congress Should Only Pass Legislation That They Apply To Themselves As Well.

The Paris Attack Was Highly Sophisticated, Well-planned, Very Clever, Took Months In The Making, Very Much Like 9/11. And There Is A 9/11-style Attack Coming To America.

The History Of African-american Repression In This Country Rose From Government-sanctioned Racism. Jim Crow Laws Were A Product Of Bigoted State And Local Governments.

I Would Have Handled It Differently Than The Mayor Of Baltimore, That's For Sure. I Think It's A Mistake To Say, Hey, Guys, You Can Pillage The City For A While And We'll Let That Go, And We'll Be Sort Of Standing Back. I Think It's Also Important To Know Some Of The Underlying Causes Of Why There's Unease In Our Country.

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.

Every Chance At Destabilizing [bashar] Assad... The Bombing Campaign Causes A Flood Of Refugees Into Jordan, There's Already Half A Million In Jordan. I Think A Bombing Campaign - I Think It's Hard To Argue That A U.s. Bombing Campaign Is Going To Cause Less Refugees. And I Think It Causes More Refugees And More Of A Humanitarian Disaster. I Think It Causes, Or Allows, The Risk Of Israel Being Attacked With A Gas Attack To Go Up, If We Attack Assad. So There's All Kinds Of Bad Things.

I Say The Phone Records Of Law Abiding Citizens Are None Of Their Damn Business!

If I Had Been Told To Get Out Of The Street As A Teenager, There Would Have Been A Distinct Possibility That I Might Have Smarted Off. But, I Wouldn’t Have Expected To Be Shot.

The Government Has Investigated Our Program Of Collecting Through A Generalized Fashion, Everyone's Phone Records In The Country. And They Found That No Terrorist Case Has Been Thwarted Through This.

You Need To Have People Within Your Own Party That Have The Wherewithal To Stand Up To You.

The People Who Get The Ability To Use Force Have To Be Watched Carefully By Civilians To Make Sure They Don't Use It Excessively.

Nobody Ever Was Fired For 9/11. Instead Of Firing The People Who Didn't Do A Good Job, We Gave Them Medals. The Guy Who Did A Good Job, I Don't Know What Happened To Him. And What We Did Was We Decided We'd Just Collect Everybody's Information. That We'd Sort Of Scrap The Bill Of Rights.

There Comes A Time, There Comes A Time In The History Of Nations When Fear And Complacency Allow Power To Accumulate And Liberty And Privacy To Suffer. That Time Is Now And I Will Not Let The Patriot Act, The Most Unpatriotic Of Acts Go Unchallenged.

We Have 11 Million People Said To Be In Our Country Illegally. Forty Percent Of Them Are Said To Have Overstayed Their Visa. Do We Know Where They Are?

I Think Saudi Arabia Often Finances Radical Islam And The Teaching Of Hatred To The West And Hatred Of Americans. I Think It Is Important That We Know That. It's Important That We Know That There Is A Threat Within And A Threat Without. I Think We Can Stop It With More Aggressive Use Of Actual Constitutional Tools.

I Tell People I Won't Vote To Go To War Unless I'm Ready To Go Or Send My Kids.

You Either Believe In The Constitution, Or You Don't.

Any Time Someone Tries To Tell You That Metadata Is 'meaningless, Don't Worry, It's Just Who You Call, It's Just Phone Records, It's Not A Big Deal' - Realize We Kill People Based On Metadata. So They Must Be Pretty Darn Certain That They Think They Know Something Based On Metadata.

I Support Local Solutions To Illegal Immigration As Protected By The 10th Amendment. I Support Making English The Official Language Of All Documents And Contracts.

How Would You Possibly Sell 700 Companies In A Fire Sale And Hope To Get What They Were Worth?it's Just An Unrealistic Sort Of Standard They're Trying To Hold [donald Trump] To.

If There Were An Ounce Of Courage In This Body I Would Be Joined By Other Senators… Saying They Will Not Tolerate This.

Well, There’s 10 - There’s 10 Different - There’s 10 Different Titles, You Know, To The Civil Rights Act, And Nine Out Of 10 Deal With Public Institutions. And I’m Absolutely In Favor Of One Deals With Private Institutions, And Had I Been Around, I Would Have Tried To Modify That.

The Stamp Act Was A Direct Tax Imposed On The Colonies By King George Iii. This Act Inevitably Led To The American Revolution. Just As The Stamp Act Did In 1765, Obamacare Should Act As A Wake-up Call. Chief Justice Roberts Provides Us With A Similar Call To Action.

America Does Not Need To Continue To Have Regime Change Throughout The World, Nation-building.

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.

The End Of The Day

We Do Not Project Power From Bankruptcy Court. We're Borrowing A Million Dollars A Minute.

I'm Being Unfairly Targeted By A Bunch Of Hacks And Haters.

We Shouldn't Be Fearful Of Freedom, We Shouldn't Be Fearful Of Individual Liberty.

I Will Not Let The Patriot Act, The Most Un-patriotic Of Acts, Go Unchallenged.

The Republican Platform Specifically Says We Don't Believe In Bailing Out Private Business, And Yet We Did.

We Must Protect Ourselves From Jihadis Without Losing Ourselves.

Losing Ourselves

I've Been Accused Of Wanting To Allow Terrorists To Have Weapons To Attack America.

Inherent To Socialism Is The Absence Of Choice. If I Want To Choose My Own Pretzels Or Books Or Iphones, They Prevent Me - They Fine Me, Or Imprison Me. And Those Systems, Not Infrequently Have Historically, Have Developed Into Systems Where There Are Pogroms.

Every Gun Regulation That President [barack] Obama Has Advocated For, California Has Already. And It Didn't Stop Terrorism.

You Campaigned Against Rich People And You Got Enough Envy Whipped Up In The Country And You're Gonna Get 'em. You're Gonna Stick It To Those Rich People. But Guess What? You May Not Get Anymore Revenue. You May Not Get Anymore Economic Growth. But You Can Say, 'i Stuck It To The Rich People.'

Using Taxes To Punish The Rich, In Reality, Punishes Everyone Because We Are All Interconnected. High Taxes And Excessive Regulation And Massive Debt Are Not Working.

I Am Encouraged President Obama Now Says He Will Fulfill His Constitutional Obligation To Seek Authorization For Any Potential Military Action In Syria. This Is The Most Important Decision Any President Or Any Senator Must Make, And It Deserves Vigorous Debate

We Need A Republican Party That Shows Up On The South Side Of Chicago And Shouts At The Top Of Our Lungs, 'we Are The Party Of Jobs And Opportunity! The Gop Is The Ticket To The Middle Class.

Bipartisanship Is Not What Is Missing In Washington. Common Sense Is.

For Liberty To Expand, Government Must Shrink. For The Economy To Grow, Government Must Get Out Of The Way.

I'm The Leading Voice In America For Not Arming The Allies Of Isis.

The Idea Of Foreign Policy Realism, I Think, Fits More Neatly With President Trump. And With John Mccain, The Neoconservative Label Of Let's Make The World Safe For Democracy And We're Going To Topple Every Regime Hasn't Worked.

I Think What We've Had In The Past Is The Government Has Said, "well, We Need To Collect The Whole Haystack." And The Haystack Is Americans' Privacy. Every Americans' Privacy. We Have To Give Up All Of Our Privacy.

I'm Not Someone Who's Sort Of Still Trying To Figure Out What I Believe In.

The Constitution Was Not Written To Restrain The Citizen's Behavior, It Was Writtne To Restrain The Government's Behavior.

The Callous Use Of General Warrants And The Disregard For The Bill Of Rights Must End. Forcing Us To Choose Between Our Rights And Our Safety Is A False Choice And We Are Better Than That As A Nation And As A People.

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