Rand Paul

I'm not an absolute no.

I don’t have as much trouble with the tax cuts. I think there should be more spending cuts, but if they want my vote, they’ll have to negotiate.

separate out the debt ceiling and have a separate vote on it.

We're $2 trillion in the hole and just an additional cost like this, I'm not for it.

I never liked the idea of the parade.

I've never liked the idea of the parade. I grew up in the '70s and '80s, and the only parades I can remember are Soviet parades for the most part or North Korean parades. The parades I remember from our history were different…we never…

I don't have as much trouble with the tax cuts. I think there should be more spending cuts. But if they want my vote, they'll have to negotiate.

I'm not for censuring. I think that's crazy.

I’m not an absolute no on the package.

Never been a big fan of goose-stepping soldiers and big tanks and missiles rolling down the street.

I don’t consider war to be a game and that hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of being killed.

the level of immaturity is beyond words

I wouldn't have done it.

real border security without fueling Washington’s addiction to waste.

Senator Graham wants to make sure the president gets exactly what he wants. He’s a rubber stamp.

Petty vindictiveness like this … it makes you wonder about the quality of people you're dealing with.

It really makes me lose a lot of respect I once had for Donald Trump.

They've decided they want to declare war on my family and exclude us from the White House.

I think I'm the first senator in the history of the United States to be uninvited to the White House picnic.

I just find this incredibly petty.

I think I’m the first senator in the history of United States to be uninvited to the White House picnic.

Tariffs are taxes, and the power to tax belongs to Congress—not the president.

They’re afraid of what I’m saying, so they think they’re going to punish me, I can’t go to the picnic, as if somehow that’s going to make me more conciliatory.

I’m arguing from a true belief and worry that our country is mired in debt and getting worse, and they choose to react by uninviting my grandson to the picnic.

I wouldn't have done it. The images you saw in the Soviet Union and North Korea, we were proud not to be that.