Rand Paul

Our approach should not be: Because there was an 8-year-old with a bomb in Afghanistan, all 8-year-olds in America are a threat to our country.

That is a real problem. I mean, we got lucky because of the informant, but I guess that is the real problem.

The 59,000 refugees that Senator Collins brought up, you say you are going to screen them.

I was just thinking more of people who have been to Yemen three times and Somalia twice and they are not on your watch list, but you might want to spend a little more time with them.

Perhaps it is that our philosophy is that everyone is potentially a terrorist and everyone has an equal chance of being a terrorist.

Does the TSA examine flight manifests?

If their fingerprints were in an FBI database, why weren't they checked?

I think we need to try to continue to do what we can to isolate and target who could attack us.

I would just encourage that we continue to expand this, that it is long overdue.

If they overstay their welcome, if they overstay their student visa, are we systematically going through--like Senator Lieberman talked about with the exit program, do we have an exit program on all student visas?

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

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…

I believe we continue to have security breaches, and I think there are two possibilities.

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

It is insulting our privacy. Our parents do not like it. Our kids do not like it. It needs to change.

And with regard to setting up a frequent traveler program, you say there are a couple of airports we are doing it in now?

You will screen all 59,000.

After we showed him the outrage--and he has to be reading the newspaper--over patting down these children, he said TSA was changing its procedure.

the policy should change.

I think we should change that.

I think the most serious threats to our country from terrorism probably come from travel visas, refugee visas, and student visas.

I mean, it is really doing police work.

We are made to feel like criminals and we do not want to be made to feel like criminals when we fly on a plane.

If you fly from Islamabad into Kennedy Airport and then you are going to fly on to Chicago, do you go back through any screening or are you just relying on what happened in Islamabad?

I can kind of understand that after we lost the war in Vietnam, the communists took over and people who sided with us or fought with us would be executed.