Rand Paul Quotes

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.

I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.

I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

While lawmakers should eschew soaking the rich, that is no excuse for soaking the poor.

The Obama economy is great for rich people. It's terrible for everybody else.

When states and cities and our country say we're going to tax the rich - and that word 'rich' or 'wealthy' doesn't sound like it comes from success of hard work, but from something negative - I resent it.

The people in Washington are getting rich with our money. Under President Barack Obama, the federal government swelled to record size, and it took more and more of our money to pay for it. Who benefitted? Not Missouri farmers or workers.

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'

Class envy is dangerous.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

To see poor people, their benefits being cut, to see pensions of Americans who have worked like my father, all their lives, and taken away, to see the rich just accumulating more and more wealth. I mean, it seems to me that there has to be a point where you have to say, 'No, this has to stop.'