"These attacks prove one thing for certain: the liberal establishment is desperate to keep leaders like me out of office, and we are sure to hear more wild, dishonest smears during this campaign."
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"I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he fled, [because] that is what he faced."
"Perhaps it is time to be more careful what we ask government to do, and where we allow it to become part of our lives."
"I'm being unfairly targeted by a bunch of hacks and haters."
"We need a revival in the country,” Paul said. “We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, 'reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform.'"
"The 11 million, I think, are never going home, don't need to be sent home, and I would incorporate them into our society by giving them work visas and making them taxpayers."
"I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior."
"The Bill of Rights existed long before President Obama was elected, and as long as I’m a U.S. Senator, I will fight to protect the basic rights and liberties that belong to all of us as American citizens."
"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."
"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."
"Should it be prohibited for private entities such as a church, bed and breakfast or retirement neighborhood that doesn't want noisy children? Absolutely not."
"I think my dad has helped me tremendously."
"The president began this program by executive order. He should immediately end it by executive order. For over a year now, he has said the program is illegal, and yet he does nothing."
"You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president."
"This whole sort of 'war on women' sort of thing, I'm scratching my head because if there was a war on women, I think they won."
"I hate that Mosul is falling, but I also think that for 10 years we have supplied the Iraqis and they can't stand up and do anything to defend their country, and it is all up to us?"
"Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate."
"I'm the third of five children."
"I say not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag."
"My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors."