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!
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.
Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.
I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.
If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.
Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin or on their religion. But I would take into account where they've been traveling and perhaps you might indirectly have to take into account whether or not they've been going to radical political speeches by religious leaders. It wouldn't be that they are Islamic. But if someone is attending speeches from someone who is promoting the violent overthrow of our government, that’s really an offense that we should be going after. They should be deported or put in prison.
I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.
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.
It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money.
How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury - national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture - we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands.
We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.
I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.
The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we can’t separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.
If you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health care... My staff and technicians provide it... If you have a right to health care, then you have a right to their labor.
Any time you make an analogy to horrific people in history, Mussolini or Hitler, people say, 'Oh, you're exaggerating, you're talking about, it's hyperbole.' Maybe it is. ... But I would say is that if you are not concerned that democracy could produce bad people, I don't think you're really thinking this through too much.
The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they're women, they're in positions because they're intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally.
We have to think before we act.
