Rand Paul

I recently voted again in favor of H.R. 4853, the Middle Class Tax Relief Act, legislation which ensures the continuation of the Bush-era tax cuts, fixes the AMT patch, and significantly reduces the burden of the estate tax in 2011. If no…

WikiLeaks' release of classified information has generated a lot of attention worldwide in the past few weeks. The hysterical reaction makes one wonder if this is not an example of killing the messenger for the bad news. Despite what is…

Earmarks is part of the problem, and we must stop it.

Today I voted for H.R. 4853, legislation which ensures file continuation of many of the Bush tax cuts. If no action had been taken by this Congress, all Americans would have had to pay higher income, dividend, and capital gains taxes…

Earmarks are absolutely a problem, and we must end earmarks.

I am philosophically opposed to earmarks.

I rise this evening to announce that I introduced some legislation today dealing with the calamity that we have found at our airports with TSA. Something has to be done. Everybody is fed up. The people are fed up, the pilots are fed up, I…

I think the answer to that is that if, as we all sit around this table, is that it is clearly the small businesses that are going to jumpstart the economy and supply the funds to be able to build employment and growth.

I believe what will happen is that you are effectively tying both hands behind the economy's back because if you do believe that it is the community banks that will provide that source of funding to allow the economy to grow but at the…

I see a tremendous amount of transfer of wealth going from the community organizations... back into Wall Street.

I think it is a very dicey, risky position that we are in right now if we do not address my two biggest concerns being liquidity and valuations.

We will look at each individual program and we will do a stepwise process to this.

Nothing is off-limits. And we will -- let me finish. The other thing is, is that we will look at each individual program and we will do a step-wise process to this.

My answer to the question is that nothing is off -- off to -- off-limits.

The Wall Street Journal reporter is a good guy and a -- quote -- 'thoughtful writer,' but he -- quote -- 'misunderstood' the part of the discussion he had about earmarks.

I would not engage in earmarks. I think we need to end earmarks. So, I'm philosophically opposed to earmarks. Earmarks is part of the problem, and we must stop it. I'm very frugal. I'm very conservative. I don't believe in earmarks. I…

submit request for funding through the appropriations process, but he will not request earmarks.

Rand Paul, who talked a lot about earmarks on the campaign trail, about trying to abolish them, calling them a symbol of everything wrong with Washington, he's now being accused of flip-flopping.

I will advocate for Kentucky's interests and submit request for funding through the appropriations process, but he will not request earmarks.

There's 10 different titles, you know, to the Civil Rights Act, and nine out of 10 deal with public institutions and I'm absolutely in favor of. One deals with private institutions. And, had I been around, I would have tried to modify that.

I never said that I believe in anything remotely regarding segregated lunch counters. I never said I was for repealing the Civil Rights Act which is what Jack said over and over again on Chris Matthews show.

I never said that I believed in anything remotely regarding segregated lunch counters. I never said I was for repeal of the Civil Rights Act, which is what Jack said over and over again on Chris Matthews' show.

Run a race as a man. Stand up and be a man.

Run a race as a man. Stand up and be a man.

You know, Jack, you know how we tell when you're lying? It's when your lips are moving. Ok?