Rand Paul

I think they're a good thing, but I think the parent should have some input. The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children and it is an issue of freedom.

I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children, who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines. I'm not arguing vaccines are a bad idea. I think they're a good thing. But I think the parents should have…

The practice, which is legal, fuels racial tensions.

I also do not want to give up my right to approve of the negotiation.

I have been one who says new sanctions in the middle of negotiations is a huge mistake and may well break up the sanctions coalition, may well drive Iran away from the table.

I think there are several of us on this side who do not blanket say no, we will not vote to approve an agreement.

You have greater ability to negotiate once you affirm, which is the law, that we will have to pass the final negotiation.

I continue to support a negotiated solution and think it preferable to war.

You went to war in Libya without congressional authority. You have now been at war for 5 months without constitutional or congressional authority.

I think this President has been derelict.

The Constitution is quite clear that this responsibility lies with Congress.

I accept that blame as a badge of honor and pledge to continue in the new Congress.

There is a very important restraint, and that is the Constitution that says Congress initiates war.

I think for 5 months, we have been derelict in our duty.

I think there is no greater responsibility for any legislator than the debate over when we send our brave young men and women to war.

You have 70,000 backlogged cases. Why don't you fix your backlog before you decide to go out and persecute American businesses?

I just can't imagine--if we were to talk to real people in the real world, they couldn't imagine that you would go after businesses where people don't know they've been discriminated against, there's been no complaint of this, and you…

Do you think this policy of entrapment, of going into businesses that have committed no crime and have had no complaint and ginning up and looking for something--isn't that abhorrent?

This is so against what everything America stands for, that you would go after people where there's been absolutely no complaint.

Shouldn't you be able to confront your accusers?

I hope you will rethink your position on these things. It is something that we should eliminate, and I'll do everything possible to make sure you're not allowed to do it anymore.

How can you show up to work with a straight face and prosecute people where there's been no complaint?

I think it's absolutely inexcusable. I think it's un-American. I think it's dishonorable.

It is an absurd abuse of government and should end.

I find it unbelievable that if the President came before a joint session of Congress and asked for use of force, that he would not get a vote.