If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

I think that there is a bipartisan consensus that's incorrect that we should have the whole world be in NATO. For example, if we had Ukraine and Georgia in NATO - and this is something McCain and the other neocons have advocated for - we would be at war now because Russia has invaded both of them.

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making.

We need a revival in the country,” Paul said. “We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, 'reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform.'

Out of regime change you get chaos. From the chaos you have seen repeatedly the rise of radical Islam. So we get this profession of, oh, my goodness, they want to do something about terrorism and yet they're the problem because they allow terrorism to arise out of that chaos.

Every gun regulation that President [Barack] Obama has advocated for, California has already. And it didn't stop terrorism.