Rand Paul

“I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.”

“I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.”

“The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.”

“We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.”

“For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.”

“In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days' worth of phone records for a single individual were not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The NSA today, though, collects hundreds of millions of phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans without an individualized warrant.”

“And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.”

“I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.”

“America has much greatness left in her.”

“It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.”

“I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.”

“Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.”

“Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.”

“Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.”

“I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.”

“Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.”

“I ran for office originally as part of this Tea Party Movement because we were upset with Republicans who've doubled the debt. We were upset with Republicans that bailed out the banks.”

“If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.”

“In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.”

“I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.”