Rand Paul Quotes

It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington change.

I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.

Politicians in Washington are useless.

Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations.

Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.

We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama.

Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is.

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street.

There are as many Democrats that are guilty as Republicans and their spending habits. And the fact is, is that Washington is just broken.

Sadly, far too many politicians in Washington lack the courage to do something to fix our problems. They are worried about the political implications of making the hard choices we so desperately need to cut spending and shrink government.

I think there is a real misunderstanding about what the Tea Party movement is. The Tea Party movement is a sentiment in America that government is broken - both parties are to blame - and if we don't do something soon, this exceptional country will be lost, and it will become just like everybody else.

In every jurisdictional area that I can get my fingers on, I want to move us away from the Washington insider economy.

Washington has become a place where good ideas come to die.

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn’t.

Sometimes we're tone-deaf in Washington, and we listen only to ourselves. We do not hear the cry of people who want answers, want action, want protection, and have some darn good ideas as to how to provide it if only we would listen.

I didn't come to Washington to be part of the problem.

I'm focused on bringing real change to Washington because the career politicians have screwed things up so badly.

Washington faces many challenges these days, and today's United States Senate needs more trusted conservatives going there to make decisions and choices that put the people first and not the business-as-usual crowd.

America is much better than the leadership we have in Washington.

No matter where we go in the state, I hear from Mainers that they are ready for someone to stand up for them in Washington.

We don't get a more responsive government unless we start to systematically run organizing campaigns to change the way government works.

Cleaning up the mess in Washington is gonna take a whole lot of Iowa common sense.

The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.

Unfortunately, even during a pandemic we've seen a process in Washington that makes no sense for the needs of Mainers.