Rand Paul Quotes

I am a fiscal conservative.

I'm a fiscal conservative. That's how I define myself.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

As a fiscal conservative, I believe one of the most important roles the federal government can play in assuring that our economy remains strong is to keep our fiscal house in order.

After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.

Basically, I'm a fiscal conservative.

Conservatives were brought up to hate deficits and justifiably so. We've long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced - the budget and the liberals.

Opposing taxes is a key conservative value.

Ronald Reagan is the closest thing [to the strong conservative] we have.He said that we shouldn't spend money we don't have, and he said that the government shouldn't get involved in things that it's not very good at doing.

I'm a Conservative who believes in lower taxes. They lead to a more enterprising economy. But I'm not somebody who believes you can fund lower taxes by borrowing more money.

People ask me about if, being a Republican, you guys want to cut everything and stop everything and not help people. I find that patently false.

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

In Congress, I was a relentless advocate for fiscal responsibility.

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.

Thanks to former President George W. Bush - remember the compassionate conservative? - I have a good name for the fundamental principle that should guide the Democratic alternative: compassionate deficit reduction.

In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.

If you look at what is happening in Republican conventions across the country, they are energized. And the message is really the same - that is, big government is a problem, spending is a problem.

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'

We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is.

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

I'm a conservative - a practicing one. I'm not a talk-about-it one.