Rand Paul

When Robert Byrd was here he paved about every inch of West Virginia because he had the power to do it.

Do you favor earmarks? Do you think they are a good idea?

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I think really there is a judgment question about whether or not we should have had more people there.

I think there is a danger in analyzing this of spending too much time on January 6th and not enough time on the days and weeks and months leading up to this.

The Fourth Amendment is out there to protect against generalized searches.

I think it is very important... that we not have some huge dragnet that everybody that went shopping on January 6th in D.C. is now a suspect...

If we are going to fix this in the future, it is not about calling the National Guard out quicker.

My suspicion is it was gotten in a generalized way because we have very little concern for individual privacy anymore...

That`s what freedom is all about, taking your own risks.

The trial will start with that debate.

So, people want to hold President Trump accountable for language, there has to be a consistent standard. And, to my mind, it`s a partisan farce. It is a farce. It is unconstitutional. But, more than anything, it`s unwise and going to…

It is just completely bizarre and unfair that people--

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Well, a lot of us think that is bizarre, not very fair.

I think we do need to put things in perspective, and those who say this is an existential thing and we have just got to borrow whatever, and the debt be damned, and we just have to do whatever and not worry about the consequences of the…

The small businesses have been devastated by government policy, primarily Governors' policy, but they have been devastated by these rules.

There is no evidence, really, that any of the COVID lockdowns have affected the trajectory of the virus.

Nowhere on the machine or on the Public Health website is any place where you can sign up for a vaccine.

The more of these loans that are turned into grants and have less oversight and the people have less verification of what they have done with the money, the more corruption we will get.

I think what we should be doing is having large sign-up sheets with your name, your age, and trying to get people on a list where we can call them in to get the vaccine.

Philosophically, I have been opposed to borrowing such extraordinary amounts of money, and I think it has been a false choice in the sense that we say either the economy collapses in ruin or we bail it out with money that we do not have.

I really do fear that a lot of corruption is going to happen, and more corruption will happen as more of this is turned into grants.

I think that is sort of a callous way to look at the future of our country and not worry about what we are doing to the currency and what we are doing to the underpinnings of our economy by borrowing so much money.