11/12/2013
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"submit request for funding through the appropriations process, but he will not request earmarks."
"The Wall Street Journal reporter is a good guy and a -- quote -- 'thoughtful writer,' but he -- quote -- 'misunderstood' the part of the discussion he had about earmarks."
"Rand Paul, who talked a lot about earmarks on the campaign trail, about trying to abolish them, calling them a symbol of everything wrong with Washington, he's now being accused of flip-flopping."
"I would not engage in earmarks. I think we need to end earmarks. So, I'm philosophically opposed to earmarks. Earmarks is part of the problem, and we must stop it. I'm very frugal. I'm very conservati..."