The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered. I don't think we need to name any names, do we? Our party is encumbered by an inconsistent approach to freedom. The new GOP will need to embrace liberty in both the economic and the personal sphere.
Interpretation
Rand Paul believes the Republican Party needs to refresh its approach to freedom for both economic and personal matters.
In this quote, Rand Paul critiques the current state of the Republican Party, suggesting that it has become outdated and stagnant. He argues that to remain relevant and effective, the party must adopt a consistent stance on freedom that encompasses both economic issues and personal liberties, thereby appealing to a broader base and ensuring its future success.
In practice
In a political debate about the future of the Republican Party.
The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we canβt separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.
No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.
Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot.
When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury - national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture - we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands.
I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court.
I'm concerned when certain movements or countries have been isolated from the international dialogue because then you have no way of influencing them.
My first reaction to Trump being elected was a visceral one. I cried for black people in general but, more particularly, for those of us at the margins who have been struggling and who have never received enough support.
Party honesty is party expediency.
Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.
The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race and raise the prospect of a transfer of nuclear know-how to terrorists. Its president denies the Holocaust and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. The danger from Iran is grave, it is real.
To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.
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