"The vast majority of the public is not in favor of arming Islamic rebels who, in all likelihood, will be killing Christians in Syria."
"War is a messy business and people do lose their lives, people you know."
"There are strains, and not insignificant strains, I think maybe as much as a third of the population of Pakistan, maybe half, said they would vote for bin Laden."
"I think there has been too much hesitancy sometimes in our society that we are going to offend all of Islam."
"Among the great human rights abuses I think is putting people to death for their speech."
"But having them on the books is a great human rights abuse."
"Hon. Rand Paul, a U.S. Senator from the State of Kentucky, statement."
"Let me be clear. The authority of the Federal Government and the protection of the Constitution should not be a partisan matter."
"The Bill of Rights exists to protect our liberties regardless of who happens to be in power."
"As a consequence of standing for principle, we saw the next day the administration do what it had declined to do for many weeks."
"There are all kinds of examples of theft and kleptocracy. There are examples of our foreign aid being used to buy tear gas in Egypt to spray on the Egyptian people."
"We cannot even run the basic functions of government, and yet we send an extra $250 million in addition to the $2 billion we already send over there."