Rand Paul Quotes About Constitution

Quotes about: Constitution

• If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!

  Rand Paul

  Home, Government, Term Limits

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Feb 13, 2013

• I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court.

  Rand Paul

  America, Rights, Law

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Mar 06, 2013

• The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.

  Rand Paul

  Government, Evil, Constitution

• I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.

  Rand Paul

  Political, President, Constitution

  "Famous Filibusters Throughout History". "Talk of the Nation" with Lynn Neary and Ken Rudin, www.npr.org. March 7, 2013.

• Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

  Rand Paul

  Constitution, Debate, Terrorism

• The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

  Rand Paul

  Government, Citizens, Politics

• I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged. At the very least, we should debate. We should debate whether or not we are going to relinquish our rights, or whether or not we are going to have a full and able debate over whether or not we can live within the Constitution, or whether or not we have to go around the Constitution.

  Rand Paul

  Rights, Nsa, Able

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

• Let's say tomorrow that there was a president, that we elected a president that eliminated the bulk collection of data. Let's just say it happened. What do you think would happen? People are like 'the sky would fall. We would be overrun with jihadists.' Maybe we could rely on the Constitution. Maybe we could get warrants. ... If you make the warrant specific, there's no limit to what you can get through a warrant.

  Rand Paul

  Fall, Thinking, Nsa

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

• When you ask yourself, whoever you are, that think you're going to support Donald Trump, think, do you believe in the Constitution? Are you going to change the Constitution?

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Thinking, Support

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

• In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield - however despicable - are guaranteed a trial by our Constitution. No one argues that Americans who commit treason shouldn't be punished. The maximum penalty for treason is death. But the Constitution specifies the process necessary to convict.

  Rand Paul

  Father, War, Technology

• You either believe in the Constitution, or you don't.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Constitution

• [Marco] Rubio says we should collect all Americans' records all of the time. The Constitution says otherwise. I think they're both wrong. I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Records, Constitution

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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