Rand Paul

We keep supporting Algeria and Morocco and Yemen and all these dictators, and yet we pretend that as soon as it looks like the dictator might fall, oh, we are all for democracy and we are for freedom and we are against these dictators.

What is wrong with swearing off support for and aid for all dictators?

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.

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.

I think a friend bought is not a friend, and I think a friend that is coerced by military power is not a friend and breeds resentment.

this amendment will keep OSHA out of the cockpit. This amendment is not about safety. OSHA wants to get into the cockpit to add regulatory burden. But already the airlines voluntarily adhere to OSHA regulations. Before you vote to bring…

I want to thank the majority leader for agreeing to allow a debate on this important legislation. We will have time to amend it in the next 3 months, discuss it fully. When the PATRIOT Act was passed in the first place, it was passed in a…

everyone agrees that the FAA plays an important role in air safety. I don't think there is any real discussion or debate on either side in that regard. My amendment calls, though, for having spending levels at 2008. This is actually what…

the amendment I am offering is to continue to have the airlines exempt from OSHA. This isn't because I am not concerned with safety. It is that we have been doing it this way for 30 or 40 years. The FAA voluntarily adheres to OSHA…

I would hate to think they were the first ones to warn us. I think they were the last ones to even recognize what was going on.

the amendment I have presented to the floor for the FAA bill is an amendment that I think is a first step toward looking at budgetary restraint. The President, in his State of the Union Address, talked about freezing spending at 2010…

this amendment is not about quality. It is not about unions. It is about a Federal Government that is spending too much money, and it is about an enormous debt we have. It is about starting somewhere. People agree that you save money if…

the amendment I have offered to the FAA bill is an amendment to exempt the FAA from the Davis-Bacon restrictions. Most of us know, when we talk about schools being built in our district or in our neighborhood, the cost of schools and…

Today we will vote on repealing President Obama's Federal takeover of health care. This vote will be not only to repeal the specifics of this legislation but to reassert that we operate under constitutional restraint. When this bill first…

I am both honored and humbled by the responsibility of defending our Constitution and our individual freedoms. I will sit at Henry Clay's desk. There is likely no legislator from Kentucky more famous than Henry Clay. He was the Speaker of…

How did the 20-year war get started? It had been long assumed that the United States Government, shortly before Iraq invaded Kuwait in August of 1990, gave Saddam Hussein a green light to attack. A State Department cable recently published…

I appreciate you holding these hearings because the subject of unemployment certainly is one issue on which everybody in the Congress agrees.

I think the Federal Reserve allows Congress to be irresponsible.

In the last several weeks, there have been several articles published by officials from the Federal Reserve system. This is a little bit unusual because they are critical of anybody who criticizes them and are critical of me in particular…

Perpetual war is expensive. We have been militarily involved in the Persian Gulf region now for 20 years. Experts have predicted that the cost of this continuous and expanding war will reach $6 trillion. The hostilities and our overt…

I am pleased that the Constitution has received a lot of attention in recent weeks, thanks to the tea party movement. It goes without saying that Members of Congress should have read the Constitution many times, and we should continue to…

That we have to balance the budget and we need to do so by cutting spending. And I think that's the message -- the number one message from the Tea Party.

Do we need 100,000 fighters to stop 100 people?

We've got to do something. It's going to take dramatic, across the board look at everything in the budget.

Well, some people have pointed out that in the Defense budget, we have about 40 percent overhead. And we require our Defense contractors to only have 15 percent overhead.