Rand Paul

I think a great place to start cutting spending would be the $600 billion a year we spend on aid to State and local governments.

The best solution to the waste problem is to cut the Federal Government's size, and I think a prime target for cuts ought to be Federal aid to State and local government.

If you are really for campaign finance reform, maybe we ought to start with not giving out specific items that seem to go to specific corporate entities.

Well, I want to thank the panel for coming today, and I wanted to conclude by--we will see if anybody has any final remarks to make, but I think there are ways we can look at government waste.

It is that they do not get the right incentives.

The improper payment rate in the School Lunch Program is 16 percent.

Just because other countries are doing the wrong thing does not mean the United States should be doing the same thing.

It may not balance the budget, but it would make our government a lot less unwieldy and wasteful if we were to get rid of some of the things we all know about.

There could be process reforms, there could be program elimination, or there could be program modification.

A pencil would cost, $1,000 if government made pencils because they do not have the proper incentives to do anything efficiently.

Federal intervention, in my view, will ultimately weaken America's ability to respond to natural disasters.

I think corporate welfare makes U.S. businesses weaker.

We have a deficit this year that is expected to be about $583 billion.

Because we have a printing press and we do not seem to care about the debt, people come up and everybody has a program.

I am in favor of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

We cannot even fire people in government who have committed malfeasance sometimes.

There is no reason for the EDA to exist.

I think this is a threat to our economy, and some economists have said it is costing us millions of jobs.

One of the ideas that we have put forward and are trying to get a vote on this week on NDAA is to give civilians bonuses based on finding savings.

We need to boldly proclaim our vision for America. We need to go boldly forth under the banner of liberty that clutches the constitution in one hand and the bill of rights in the other.

Terrorists and against foreigners. We found that 99 percent of the time, section 213 is used for domestic crime. I believe that no section of the PATRIOT Act should be passed unless our targets are terrorists--not Americans.

I was here for 30 minutes of the Republican side speaking. I sat at my seat for 30 minutes. It was not 23 minutes of equally divided time. Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, regular order--obviously people don't know the rules of the Senate. Maybe…

I will defer to the Senator from New Mexico if he wishes to make an objection.

I guess a followup to that would be this: Are those arguments still being floated from this administration that there are article II powers? There is a debate going on over this Executive Order 12333. The question is whether people are…

Well, one of the comments that we went through tonight was an opinion by one of the attorneys in the Bush administration. They said, basically, that there were authorities that they were given that were inherent authorities under article…