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Rand Paul is a U.S. senator from Kentucky and a member of the Republican Party. He has described himself as a constitutional conservative and a supporter of the Tea Party movement, with libertarian views similar to his father, former presidential candidate Ron Paul. Rand Paul was a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination and has been one of President Trump’s top defenders in the Senate.
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Randal Howard Paulis an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Kentucky since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he has described himself as a constitutional conservative and a supporter of the Tea Party movement. His libertarian views have been compared to those of his father, three-time presidential candidate and 12-term U.S. representative from Texas, Ron Paul.
Paul attended Baylor University and is a graduate of the Duke University School of Medicine. He was a practicing ophthalmologist in Bowling Green, Kentucky, from 1993 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He was re-elected to a second term in 2016 and won a third term in 2022.
Paul was a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. While he initially opposed Donald Trump during that year’s Republican primaries, he supported him following his nomination and became one of his top defenders in the Senate during his first impeachment trial, though on key votes he aligned with Trump the third least among Republican senators during the Trump presidency.
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Rand Paul is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Kentucky since 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party and has described himself as a constitutional conservative and a supporter of the Tea Party movement.
Rand Paul’s libertarian views have been compared to those of his father, former presidential candidate and U.S. representative Ron Paul. He has been described as a constitutional conservative and a supporter of the Tea Party movement.
Rand Paul was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010 and was re-elected in 2016 and 2022, serving as the junior senator from Kentucky since 2011.
Prior to entering politics, Rand Paul was a practicing ophthalmologist in Bowling Green, Kentucky, from 1993 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2010.
Rand Paul was a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. While he initially opposed Donald Trump during that year’s Republican primaries, he later supported him and became one of his top defenders in the Senate.
6 Quotes by Rand Paul
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I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who’s handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.
Rand PaulUnited States Senator from Kentucky since 2011
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We’ve come to take our government back.
Rand PaulUnited States Senator from Kentucky since 2011
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You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
Rand PaulUnited States Senator from Kentucky since 2011
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Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we’re unhappy and that we want things done differently.
Rand PaulUnited States Senator from Kentucky since 2011
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The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it’s easier to win a libel suit.
Rand PaulUnited States Senator from Kentucky since 2011
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What I’ve always said is that I’m opposed to institutional racism, and I would’ve, had I’ve been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
Rand PaulUnited States Senator from Kentucky since 2011