Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
Rand PaulUnless you really stand for something, people aren't motivated to go out and vote for you.
Rand PaulI'll do anything to try to prevent John Bolton from getting any position, because I think his world view is naive. He believes we're going to spread democracy. We're going to topple governments everywhere and they're going to elect Thomas Jefferson. That's not the way it works in the Middle East.
Rand PaulWhat gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
Rand Paul