Rand Paul Quotes

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

Well, look, I'm as Tea Party as it gets.

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.

I consider myself a Republican.

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

Actually, I'm a Republican.

To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

I'm trying to uphold what was true about conservatism. I consider myself a Reagan conservative.

At its core, conservatism is not an anti-government movement, and it's not a no-government movement.

Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.

Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.

We have to make conservatism cool and exciting again.

I'm a proud Reagan conservative.

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

I am a Reagan Republican.

And my principles go right in line with the Tea Party.

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

I am very much a Republican.

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

As conservatives, we know our principles, and we also know the best ideas do not always come from Washington.