Quotes About Paul Rand

#1. I remember a time at Yale when my work was being critiqued by Paul Rand. Mr. Rand told me only to use Helvetica as a display face never in text, then he squinted, leaned in, and whispered in my ear, "because Helvetica looks like dogshit in text".

Kyle Cooper

#2. We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War II,

Rand Paul

#3. What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.

Rand Paul

#4. Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

Rand Paul

#5. Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.

Rand Paul

#6. As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.

Rand Paul

#7. You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.

Rand Paul

#8. Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.

Rand Paul

#9. If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rand Paul filibustering for 13 hours, that was viewed as a fringe issue, as a quixotic issue, and yet millions of Americans engaged, spoke up, got online.

Ted Cruz

#10. It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.

Rand Paul

#11. I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.

Ted Cruz

#12. Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.

Rand Paul

#13. So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time.

Paul Rand

#14. I don't think we're doing an adequate vetting process of those who are coming to our country.

Rand Paul

#15. Well, there's 10 - there's 10 different - there's 10 different titles, you know, to the Civil Rights Act, and nine out of 10 deal with public institutions and I'm absolutely in favor of. One deals with private institutions, and had I been around, I would have tried to modify that.

Rand Paul

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Rand Paul

#17. You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

Rand Paul

#18. If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

Rand Paul

#19. In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.

Rand Paul

#20. I think it's a conundrum. If we have no laws on this, people take it to one extension further, does it have to be humans, you know?

Rand Paul

#21. We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let's make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let's make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.

Rand Paul

#22. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.

Rand Paul

#23. If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy to believe that a logo will do its job immediately, before an audience has been properly conditioned.

Paul Rand

#24. I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends;

Rand Paul

#25. If you have 'too big to fail' for cities or for states, and they believe they'll be bailed out, they'll continue to make unwise decisions.

Rand Paul

#26. Well, let's be clear I'm the only one on the stage who actually has a five-year budget that balances.

Rand Paul

#27. I think you'll find that these are measures that have great bipartisan support, and so I expect, not only did we do well in the primary, I think we'll win by a wide margin in the fall because we're going to get a lot of independents and conservative Democrats coming to us.

Rand Paul

#28. I think we're never fully protected, but I think we need to do everything we can to stop threats to us.

Rand Paul

#29. When I asked the president [Barack Obama], can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It's an easy question. It should have been a resounding and unequivocal no. The president's response, he hasn't killed anyone yet.

Rand Paul

#30. I think that we have to be very careful about who comes here from the Middle East.

Rand Paul

#31. Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.

Rand Paul

#32. For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

Rand Paul

#33. Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

Nancy Gibbs

#34. Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.

Paul Rand

#35. I think the vast majority of the American people say you shouldn't be able to collect my phone records if I'm not suspicious, if you don't have probable cause.

Rand Paul

#36. We have a lot of politicians who have really small brains and really big hearts.

Rand Paul

#37. How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.

Rand Paul

#38. Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

Paul Rand

#39. I don't program or code or anything like that.

Rand Paul

#40. 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.

Rand Paul

#41. Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

Paul Rand

#42. We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.

Rand Paul

#43. The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.

Rand Paul

#44. Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

Rand Paul

#45. Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.

Paul Ryan

#46. I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.

Rand Paul

#47. I'm not accusing anybody of being [Hitler],

Rand Paul

#48. Out of regime change you get chaos. From the chaos you have seen repeatedly the rise of radical Islam. So we get this profession of, oh, my goodness, they want to do something about terrorism and yet they're the problem because they allow terrorism to arise out of that chaos.

Rand Paul

#49. Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

Rand Paul

#50. The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.

Rand Paul

#51. You either believe in the Constitution, or you don't.

Rand Paul

#52. I have a biology degree, okay?

Rand Paul

#53. If Americans were attacked, it does change the equation. The problem is, is that with regard to this is there've been horrendous killings of civilians with conventional weapons.

Rand Paul

#54. I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.

Rand Paul

#55. I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.

Rand Paul

#56. Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.

Mark McKinnon

#57. I think there is some overreach in the sense that the EPA now says: if Congress doesn't pass greenhouse emissions regulations or testing, we'll simply do it on our own. I think that's an arrogance of a regulatory body run amok.

Rand Paul

#58. The principal role of a logo is to identify, and simplicity is its means ... Its effectiveness depends on distinctiveness, visibility, adaptability, memorability, universality, and timelessness.

Paul Rand

#59. I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are.

Rand Paul

#60. Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'

Rand Paul

#61. We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Rand Paul

#62. Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants. If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you.

Rand Paul

#63. As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.

Rand Paul

#64. I don't plan on being bashful.

Rand Paul

#65. We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

Rand Paul

#66. After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?

Rand Paul

#67. Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

Rand Paul

#68. People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

Rand Paul

#69. I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.

Rand Paul

#70. The Lindsey Graham via foreign policy is going to beat Rand Paul's libertarian view of foreign policy. It will beat Barack Obama's view of foreign policy. It will beat Hillary Clinton's view of foreign policy.

Lindsey Graham

#71. We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I agree to buy it because I like it. That is how we operate in most of rest of the marketplace other than health care.

Rand Paul

#72. Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

Rand Paul

#73. The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

Paul Rand

#74. I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.

Rand Paul

#75. Every gun regulation that President [Barack] Obama has advocated for, California has already. And it didn't stop terrorism.

Rand Paul

#76. It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

Rand Paul

#77. Any time someone tries to tell you that metadata is 'meaningless, don't worry, it's just who you call, it's just phone records, it's not a big deal' - realize we kill people based on metadata. So they must be pretty darn certain that they think they know something based on metadata.

Rand Paul

#78. I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.

Rand Paul

#79. If you're white and you're rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you're poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail.

Rand Paul

#80. No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

Rand Paul

#81. If you go to prison, your child support adds up.

Rand Paul

#82. You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'

Rand Paul

#83. I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.

Rand Paul

#84. I think we've made the collection haystack so big, no one's ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause.

Rand Paul

#85. We didn't create ISIS - ISIS created themselves, but we will stop them, and one of the ways we stop them is by not funding them, and not arming them.

Rand Paul

#86. I am pleased though that there's a possibility of a diplomatic solution [in Syria]. I remain somewhat skeptical, but I am pleased that it's a possibility and I think people like myself who've been arguing for delaying this bombing, have allowed this diplomatic possibility to occur.

Rand Paul

#87. I've introduced legislation to say, "For right now, let's stop it," from about 34 countries.

Rand Paul

#88. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the revolution over!

Rand Paul

#89. I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.

Rand Paul

#90. I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

Rand Paul

#91. I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

Rand Paul

#92. What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.

Rand Paul

#93. I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

Rand Paul

#94. What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

Rand Paul

#95. After ensuring border security, I then would normalize the status of 11 million undocumented citizens so they can join the work force and pay taxes ... I would normalize them at a rate of about two million per year.

Rand Paul

#96. The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

Rand Paul

#97. Clinton Cash book had been hyped by Rand Paul and Fox News as a ticking time bomb.

Kimberly Guilfoyle

#98. You can't criticize geometry. It's never wrong.

Paul Rand

#99. There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.

Rand Paul

#100. The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.

Rand Paul