Rand Paul

It is just completely bizarre and unfair that people--

Democrats are wasting the nation`s time on a partisan vendetta against a man no longer in office.

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The vote we took today is essentially a mirror of the vote we will take at the very end, 45 republicans don`t even think that procedure, don`t even think that the trial is constitutional.

This proceeding, which would try a private citizen and not a president, a vice president or civil officer violates the constitution and is not an order.

Where is the constitutional power to impeach him? Private citizens don’t get impeached. Impeachment is for removal from office.

If 34 people support my resolution that this is an unconstitutional proceeding, it shows, they don’t have the votes to convict and we’re wasting our time.

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I would not vote to add Georgia to NATO, not on your life, unless I am ready to send my kids and your kids to go fight in Georgia.

I would argue that instead of always choosing the Government, maybe we should not reward the bad ones.

The problem isn't lack of consensus. The problem is too much consensus, but the consensus is for regime change.

I do not think you have completely gotten the idea that regime change has been a terrible disaster that has created vacuums, chaos, and actually more terrorism throughout the region.

Every president for the last 50 years have--in fact, they all probably believe this. They believe they have absolute power.

The AUMF from 9/11 had nothing to do with people in Somalia.

The lesson of these wars is that regime change does not work.

Let us do not support the bad ones, but let us not presume enough that if we topple them that in the vacuum Thomas Jefferson is going to arise, because it never seems to happen.

The policies you have advocated and Joe Biden has advocated and, frankly, John Bolton has advocated this idea of regime change has been a disaster for the Middle East.

We have to learn lessons sometime. I mean, we went into Libya. We went into Iraq. We destabilized Iraq.

Regime change is rarely, if ever, successful.

The end results of responsibility to protect are, in reality, little different than the interventionist policies of John Bolton and Bill Kristol.

One of the lessons we might learn... is that regime change does not work.

We have to learn some lessons, and I do not think we adequately learn the lessons.