Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history?
Rand PaulWhat gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
Rand PaulThere are still people - the majority on the stage, they want to topple [Bashar] Assad. And then there will be chaos, and I think ISIS will then be in charge of Syria.
Rand PaulThe problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.
Rand PaulI think there's evil on both sides [of Syria], and I think that's one reason I don't want to be involved in civil war. I see things in personal terms. I just can't see sending one of my sons - or your son or daughter - to fight in a civil war, where on one side we have a dictator, who in all likelihood gassed his people.
Rand Paul