Rand Paul

What reason do we have to be admitting so many, and is the policy of the Administration to continue to admit so many, and is it not a danger to our country and overwhelming us with numbers of folks who have to be screened and apparently…

We need to admit fewer people. There is no reason we should be admitting 60,000 people, and we need to address that policy.

Does the TSA examine flight manifests?

We should have a frequent flyer program that you can voluntarily participate in.

So I would say, the sooner, the better, we can come home. This process says come home. Under the law, it says you should start bringing troops home within 30 days. This allows up to the end of the year after this would be passed. But this…

I thank the gentleman. The question we are facing today is, should we leave Afghanistan? I think the answer is very clear, and it's not complicated. Of course we should, as soon as we can. This suggests that we can leave by the end of the…

This amendment would cost $200 billion in spending. Earlier this morning we voted, nearly unanimously in this body, to cut 5 percent from our legislative budget. Similar to so much in Washington, it sounds good. I voted for it. But 5…

This amendment, No. 199, would save taxpayers $200 billion. Recently you have seen some discussion, but I think the American taxpayers are actually baffled that there is not more discussion up here. We have proposals of a deficit from the…

The important question being asked today with regards to foreign policy is should the United States impose a no-fly zone over Libya? There are leaders on both sides of the Capitol and leaders in both parties who are now advising this as…

You take away our choices. These things you want us to buy are often made in foreign countries.

But you restrict our choices, correct?

I find it insulting that a lot of these products that you're going to make us buy. You won't let us buy what we want to buy.

You busy bodies always want to do something to tell us how we can live our lives better.

I find it really an affront to the sensibility of the idea and notion of the free marketplace, of capitalism, of freedom of choice.

I find it really appalling and hypocritical.

We are discussing and debating two different alternatives--one from the other side of the aisle and one from our side--about what we should do about the budget deficit. We have a projected $1.65 trillion deficit in the next year. I think…

You restrict my purchases. You don't care about my choices. You don't care about the consumer frankly.

If we do nothing, all the programs people are so fond of extolling and saying we need money for will be gone. So I implore the American public and those here to look at the problem and to say to Congress: You are not doing enough. You must…

I find that all of the arguments for energy efficiency, you're exactly right. We should conserve energy.

Everything costs more to go back and retrofit the toilets that don't work.

The laws and the statutes that this Committee has championed provide an adequate basis, a fine basis.

We had an election a few months ago. In that election, the American people sent a message, a message that they were concerned about the debt, concerned about our kids and our grandkids and how this debt is going to be handed down to future…

I rise in support of this legislation. I think this is a good first step to reining in an out-of-control, unelected bureaucracy. I think the EPA has gone way beyond its mandated duty and is now at the point of stifling industry in our…

I am hopeful, but not overly optimistic, because of the long-term history of 1,000 years that they don't readily adapt to true liberty.

A lot of people in this country have come to the conclusion that our policy overall has been inconsistent; that sometimes we support the bad guys and the bad guys become our enemies.