Rand Paul

I rise today in opposition to secrecy, in opposition to the veil of secrecy that cloaks the money changing hands that takes place in the temple of the Federal Reserve. While the money changes hands, the monied class gets richer and the…

That is a Constitutional question and it is also not due process.

The principle of it is pretty important.

Due process is in a court and it is debate back and forth with both sides being represented.

Due process is not a bunch of people, good people in a room, discussing whether we should kill people with drones.

I hope that you will be somebody you will facilitate getting Constitutional questions into a real court and not a mock court.

The Administration has not been very supportive of the Fourth Amendment and we are going to press these issues.

I think the current Supreme Court law actually probably says no. I think it is a tragedy, but that is the way the law has gone.

I would say that if I were in your position, I would have said no, we are not going to spend ads.

Should we then get to spend taxpayer money advertising for political purposes? I do not think a penny of taxpayer money should go to advertising, TV advertising.

I do not think we need to argue about whether ads work. Ads work.

I do not want to pay for ads for someone's advertising out of the Hurricane Sandy relief fund.

Do you think that Hurricane Sandy relief funds ought to be spent on TV ads?

We all know how important the construction and homebuilding industries are to our economy.

I think it is an absolute embarrassment to this country.

I think it is the beginning of a hemorrhage.

I am not opposed to a clean CR. If we want to have a clean CR at a level at which we can balance the budget, I am all for it. If the Senator would accept a modification of a top-line number of $940 billion to replace $988 billion where…

Yes. And I can go on. I want it to be very clear that the Senator is objecting to funding the national parks, so when people go to the national parks, they know they can call his office. We want to open the national parks, and we want to…

I think if we keep saying we wanted to defund it, we fought for that, but now we're willing to compromise on this, I think they can't, we're going to -- we, I think, well, I know we don't want to be here, but we're going to win this, I…

I think if we keep saying we wanted to defund it, we fought for that, but now we're willing to compromise on this, I think they can't -- I think I know we don't want to be here but we're going to win this, I think.

Rand Paul said today, you guys, we want to overturn this. We want to fix this. The way to do it is through election.

Why go in and the American people -- remember, the president can't even get Democrats on board with this thing. He can't get Democrats and he can't get Republicans.

I have not had one person come up to me and say they are for this war. Not one person.

I think it is equally likely that he either does it again, or he does not do it.

We have had a lot of discussion about whether or not we are going to make the world safer with this.