Rand Paul

These 1,200 jobs are 1,200 jobs that you could save with a stroke of the pen if you choose to do so.

I'm very concerned about 1,200 jobs in particular though that are in Paducah, Kentucky.

This is my only objection. If the Senator were to help me save these 1,200 jobs, we would erect a monument to him in Kentucky. This is a big deal for us. It does not cost anything. I would do everything within my power to make sure there…

As a Member of Congress, I have always voted against forcing people in Nevada to use Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste storage site. As President, I will work with the Nevada officials to ensure that whatever is done with Yucca Mountain…

We must admire their determination to sacrifice everything against enormous odds in Pakistan and Iran for the simple right to say, I am a Baluch; I will decide my own future.

How can we send our soldiers and Marines and Navy corpsmen to die for that? That is not who we are.

The Pakistani Government is not our friend. It is not the friend of the Baluch or the other subjugated peoples west of the Indus River.

But the crisis that we face, as I said, is not just domestic because it is a worldwide crisis. And if we don't do something, we will be forced, under very dire circumstances, because we cannot bail out the world. We are prepared now…

The narco criminals in Mexico have no political names. They are brutal outlaws who want money, but they don't want to throw out the government and take over.

I urge all of my colleagues to work with me in taking the first steps toward developing a strategy that can succeed through the passage of the Enhanced Border Security Act.

I fear that this bill does something even more unfortunate. The Merida Initiative was built on a foundation of cooperation.

But I must respectfully disagree, because there is a difference between acts which can cause terror and terrorist acts.

You can't do what is the undoable, and that is trying to run somebody else's country for them.

You had better choose your fights.

For a country that is run by a man who despises us: Mr. Maliki.

I mean, I just could see it.

We will oppose you. We will make Congress vote on these things, and this will work across aisles.

This is the ridiculous notion that has allowed government to overreach, and this is what annoys us in our State.

I think we're all concerned, Republican and Democrat, with clean water.

I think the overriding message--and I appreciate the comments from the Senator from Ohio--is that we have a jobs plan and we have our ideas. There is overlap in our ideas with some of the ideas from the other side. The message is, we are…

It doesn't help if he's calling us names on the campaign trail all the time.

I mean, the vice president says we're responsible for rape and murder because we won't pass their jobs plan. That's the kind of rhetoric.

He should sit down with Mitch McConnell. He should come over and sit down with John Kyle or other leaders and say this part of the jobs plan that I have, could you agree to this if we did this.

If you're going to compromise, he needs to come look at our jobs bill. Call me up. I'm down the street from him.

I worry that it is. I mean, you've seen the president on the campaign trail. There's a lot of bashing of Republicans for being too stupid to understand his jobs plan.