Rand Paul

I do not think there is a valid argument for fighting secret wars without the permission of Congress.

We are not going to obey the law, we are above the law, and we are just going to say it is not a coup.

The public is not interested in a new war.

We are in the process of becoming involved in a new war, in Syria, and there are many within the administration, which you will be part of, who argue for just doing this secretly, without votes; basically, to have a covert war.

The Congress really declares war, the Congress makes these decisions, that, unilaterally, these decisions are not made without the approval of Congress or the people.

War is a messy business and people do lose their lives, people you know.

It is fine to lie to Congress.

As a consequence of standing for principle, we saw the next day the administration do what it had declined to do for many weeks.

Let me be clear. The authority of the Federal Government and the protection of the Constitution should not be a partisan matter.

The Bill of Rights exists to protect our liberties regardless of who happens to be in power.

I really think we ought to be careful about getting involved in this civil war.

We cannot even run the basic functions of government, and yet we send an extra $250 million in addition to the $2 billion we already send over there.

There are all kinds of examples of theft and kleptocracy. There are examples of our foreign aid being used to buy tear gas in Egypt to spray on the Egyptian people.

We can evolve in a better direction.

If you want to come here and live and work, we will find a place for you.

People that are here, even those who are here illegally, if they'd like to work, we ought to figure out a way to let them work.

I for one am for immigration reform. I think we should embrace immigrants as assets, people who want to come and find the American Dream.

I am worried that the bill before us will not pass.

We should write the bill. We should write the plan.

I would say touche, a good response, I think well worth thinking about and difficult in the sense that I don't think there are any of us who really were opposed to getting bin Laden. There is a question, you are right, exactly whether…

At this point I would like to recognize for a question, without yielding the floor, the Senator from Utah.

That is correct. It is a simple question. I think we are not asking for any heavy lifting here. We are asking the President: Do you have the authority. I think it is important that it is a legal question in the sense we want to ask and get…

I wish to yield for a question to the Senator from Pennsylvania.

Since we began this today, I have had no communications from the White House or the Attorney General. The only thing we have gotten indirectly was that the Attorney General was before the Judiciary Committee today and that he did seem to…

I think it is a good point. I think also a point to be made is that one resolution to this impasse would be to have a resolution come forward from the Senate saying exactly that; that our understanding is--and this has been something that…