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Rand Paul

"Any time you make an analogy to horrific people in history, Mussolini or Hitler, people say, 'Oh, you're exaggerating, you're talking about, it's hyperbole.' Maybe it is. ... But I would say is that if you are not concerned that democracy could produce bad people, I don't think you're really thinking this through too much."

Source : "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

Rand Paul

#Thinking Quotes #Talking Quotes #Nsa Quotes

“As the cathode rays carry a charge of negative electricity, are deflected by an electrostatic force as if they were negatively electrified, and are acted on by a magnetic force in just the way in which this force would act on a negatively electrified body moving along the path of these rays, I can see no escape from the conclusion that they are charges of negative electricity carried by particles of matter.”

Source : "Cathode Rays". Philosophical Magazine, (44, 293), 1897.
“The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.”

Source : "The Real Problem in DC: Sportsmanship" by Michael Brick, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2013.
“Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.”
“If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination. If I fantasise about winning the lottery, it doesn't take long before all sorts of worrisome potential consequences occur to me.”
“Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.”
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
“We joke around a lot with our ballclub.”
“I will never apologize to the Jewish community for telling the truth”

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