Carolina QuotesI'm tired of America always doing everybody else's fighting. I'm tired of America always paying for everybody else's war What is the one thing that brings Republicans and Democrats together? War! They love it. The more the better
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4 February 2019, excerpt from 5 February 2019 article on Reason, there is a full transcript from VoteSmart's list of his public statements
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“I'm tired of America always doing everybody else's fighting.…” Rand Paul. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-D0B008D30B. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/d0b008d30b
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If I were president, I would try to be one who says, you know what, I'm a Reagan Conservative. I'm someone who believes in peace through strength, and I would try to lead the country in that way knowing that our goal is peace, and that war is the last resort, not the first resort. And, that when we go to war, we go to war in a constitutional way, which means that we have to vote on it, that war is initiated by congress, not by the president, that we go to war electively (ph). That when we go to war, we don't fight with one arm tied behind our back, we fight all out to win, but then we come home.
If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.
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. It is unenlightened and ill-informed to promote discrimination against individuals based on the color of their skin. It is likewise unwise to forget the distinction between public (taxpayer-financed) and private entities.