“Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.”

Senator from Kentucky, physician, and libertarian politician of the 2010s and 2020s. He gained prominence as a vocal advocate for limited government and civil liberties, particularly on issues like drug policy reform and non-interventionist foreign policy. His speeches often emphasize constitutional principles and skepticism of overreach by federal authority.