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• 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.

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  Rights, Nsa, Able

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

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• Why don't we see any questions from the press? Why don't we see anybody from the media saying, 'Mr. President, it's illegal, you started it, you are performing a program that is collecting all of the phone records from all Americans, it's been declared illegal from the second highest court in the land, why don't you stop?'

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  Phones, Media, Land

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

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• I think we've made the collection haystack so big, no one's ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause.

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  Thinking, Nsa, People

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

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Rights, Nsa

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

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• Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history?

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  Giving Up, Years, Nsa

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

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• We have to decide whether our fear is going to get the better of us. Once upon a time we had a standard in our country that was 'innocent until proven guilty.' We've given up on so much. Now, people are talking about a standard that is 'if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.' Think about it. Is that the standard we're willing to live under?

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  Country, Thinking, Talking

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from May 22, 2015

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• 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.

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  Queens, School, Nsa

  Rand Paul's Speech on the PATRIOT Act and Government Surveillance, www.c-span.org. May 20, 2015.

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Phones, Nsa

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

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• A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

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  Hate, Mean, Color

  "Rand Paul in '02: I may not like it, but 'a free society' will allow 'hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin'" by David Weigel, voices.washingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Fall, Thinking, Nsa

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

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• I say not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag.

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  Country, Flags, Burning

  "Rand Paul tells conservatives at CPAC 'the GOP of old has grown stale'" by Adam Gabbatt, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2013.

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• I do not yet know if I will find a Romney presidency more acceptable on foreign policy. But I do know that I must oppose the most recent statements made by Mitt Romney in which he says he, as president, could take us to war unilaterally with Iran, without any approval from Congress.

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  War, Iran, President

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• I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

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  Party, Government, Tea

  "The First Tea Party President?". Interview with Erick Erickson, townhall.com. January 02, 2015.

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• We need to be fearful of companies that get so big that they can actually be directing policy.

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  Needs, Bigs, Company

  "WATCH: Rand Paul Says Dick Cheney Pushed for the Iraq War So Halliburton Would Profit" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. April 7, 2014.

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• I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

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  Believe, Gay, Thinking

  "Rand Paul Appears In New Anti-Gay Documentary" By Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2015.

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• I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

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  Thinking

  "Rand Paul Compares Congress To Soviet Politburo" By Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2010.

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• What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.' I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business. And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen.

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  Thinking, Games, Criticism

  "Rand Paul: Obama's criticism of BP ‘un-American'". www.chron.com. May 21, 2010.

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• I'm being unfairly targeted by a bunch of hacks and haters.

  Rand Paul

  Bunch, Hacks

  "'This Week' Transcript: Dan Pfeiffer, Sen. Rand Paul, and Nate Silver". "This Week with George Stephanopoulos", abcnews.go.com. November 3, 2013.

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• Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.

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  Children, Issues, Parent

  "Senator Rand Paul Speaks with CNBC's Kelly Evans on "Closing Bell"". www.cnbc.com. February 3, 2015.

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• I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.

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  Race, Clubs, Excluded

  "Rand Paul's rewriting of his own remarks on the Civil Rights Act". Interview with Glenn Kessler, www.washingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.

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• We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.

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  Losing, Protect, Losing Ourselves

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• Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'

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  Military, Cutting, Republican

  "Rand Paul, Rep. Mike Pence and David Stockman". 'This Week', abcnews.go.com. November 7, 2010.

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• In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.

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  Decision, Grandfather, Boards

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• I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.

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  War, Thinking, President

  "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.today.com. March 30, 2011.

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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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  Country, Winning, Suits

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