Senator Rand Paul

“I don't want to ban it. I want to set up a presidential commission of scientists who are not currently employed by NIH, don't have grants that I can give them bigger grants if they agree with me, and I want them to evaluate this.”

“But the pushback, and it's bipartisan, the pushback. It's the spenders. It's the big spenders in both parties that have pushed back on doge.”

“I don't like tariffs very much, but I'll vote for a 20% tariff. You know, I take a sale. It's a sales tax. I'll take a sales tax over an income tax.”

“I think it's overstated that how great AI is going to be. I think it's going to be a lot of cool things, and I think some people are going to get caught. We're going to have too many data centers at one point, and I don't care how much electricity they're suck…”

“I think they've been a great addition because one, there are people who know about profit and loss, and there are people who have been successful in business, and the fact that they've been selected by the marketplace as being successful people means they're g…”

“I've got a bill to eliminate that right now and that bill's co-sponsored by Bernie Sanders.”

“The middle class, 50 years ago, about 54% of the people were in the middle class, and now it's 51. Everybody's like, aha, the middle class is shrinking. Well, the lower class was like, 37%. It's now 33%. It's like, where did they go? They're being hollowed out…”

“Right now there's a great danger in our country to losing a movement that represents the free market, trade, and capitalism, and all of those things, because I think we're moving towards a movement that backs a person”

“Most people who are for the protectionism say the middle class is being hollowed out and we're being ripped off. They're both absolutely and unequivocally untrue.”

“Which he did recently on the Big Beautiful Bill, you know, he was one of three Republicans to vote against it.”