Rand Paul

What I see when I go around the country and around the state to these tea parties is that people want, on both sides, not to just be spending money wantonly, like they are in Washington.

I think the problem is we are compromising, but we compromise for more spending usually.

I think Sarah Palin could be a great president.

I think the chance that we can go and rebuild nations in a fundamental way is way beyond our capability.

I think we are way overestimating our ability to meaningfully alter the way those societies operate.

I oppose H. Res. 1003, designating January 10, 2010 through January 16, 2010 as National Influenza Vaccination Week. While I believe the American people should be made aware of infectious diseases and common sense preventative measures, I…

I believe long term this is a piece of legislation that will play an important role in the monetary reform that will be a necessity if we continue to do what we have been doing with our economy and our financial system. We are in the…

We allow the Fed to devalue the dollar by printing too much money.

Nobody talks about a sound dollar.

This is America, the greatest country in the world.

Bailout begets bailout. It keeps private investment on the sidelines.

Bailout begets bailout.

So you are saying, if you buy $300 billion worth of U.S. Government debt, that is not inflationary.

TARP has morphed into a $700 billion revolving bailout slush fund.

It has nothing to do with monetary policy or interest rate manipulation.

The Federal Reserve, in collaboration with the giant banks, has created the greatest financial crisis the world has ever seen.

Should it be the policy of the Federal Government to necessarily reward bad business models?

I'm more convinced that there aren't more systemic events than there are systemic firms.

The true definition of 'inflation' is when you increase the money supply.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank you for holding these hearings because I think they are very important.

I find it rather fascinating that we are talking about where the regulations will go, whether it is going to be in the Fed or a new agency.

The middle class gets wiped out because the value goes down.

According to government statistics, but not according to the consumers. Private sources say that the consumer price index is much higher than what the government reports.

Who suffers? The consumer, the people who lose their jobs, the poor people, the middle class.

The systematic destruction of the value of our money has not helped our consumers; our consumers are destroyed by the loss of their purchasing power.