Rand Paul actually said...

"this is about the business of science with China, this will disturb our relations with China if anybody questions this."

"That was actually coming from Nature at the time. We want you to doctor it up and even be more strong, because we are making a political point here."

"This is not scientific debate that they're taking us off the Internet."

"This virus showed up immediately, very transmissible in humans as if it had been preadapted in a lab."