Rand Paul Quotes

If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

Sometimes I do feel hopeless when I look out and scream out through my music, and I scream out through these interviews, and I scream out to people to kind of get their attention back on the things that are meaningful. There's people dying on the streets of Chicago - young people, young men and women who are losing their lives.

My accident happened in what should have been one of the safest places to be: in a police station, at the hands of trained police officers. So more guns are not the answer.

The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing, and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it - they all look like Chief Keef. When it comes to the point that, you know, that kids who are doing the killings, and they're kids 13 to 19 years old, and you can replicate that in New Orleans, you can replicate that in Oakland. All the kids look the same.

One of the crises that we have to deal with is a crisis of law enforcement officials that are not physically capable enough to handle without taking out the gun.

Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive.

A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.

A militarized police force facing down innocent protesters with sniper rifles and machine guns is totally unacceptable in America.

I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?

Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed.

I've had times where one of my roommates was moving out of the house in college, and because we were the only black people in that neighborhood, the cops got called, and we had guns drawn on us. Came in the house, without knocking, guns drawn on my teammates and roommates. So I have experienced this.

Police brutality is definitely still very alive and active.

There are some policemen who overuse force, especially when there's an African-American involved, regardless of age.

It's a tragedy. It was tragedy for Freddie Gray and the family. It was a tragedy for the city. And we're still trying to figure out how it happened and why it happened.

Trayvon Martin broke my heart.

When I hear stories about the number of kids that have been lost to violence, where families grow up teaching kids 'duck and cover' long before they learn their ABC's or their colors, I know there is something profoundly wrong in our city.

I've had friends who have been beaten up by police officers who put phone books in their T-shirts and then beat them up, then drive off.

We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.

Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number.

If babies had guns, they wouldn't be aborted.

What I'm trying to tell people is that police brutality in the 'hood is nothing new. And the thing is that whether this guy, the cop killer in my song, is real or not, believe it, there are people at that point.