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"Rand`s [Paul] a libertarian. He has a view of the world that I don`t share. He said that we shouldn`t have any troops in Iraq. He agreed with Obama that was a disaster. When there was a chance to do something constructive about Syria with a no-fly zone, he said we don`t need one."
"My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere."
"I think a lot of voters have certain cognitive dissidence. Donald Trump is getting social conservatives, economic conservatives, some Libertarian, some supply side conservatives, debt hawks. The conservative and Republican base is not monolithic. It has subsets that he seems to be appealing to all of them."
"I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom."
"Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best."
"Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment."
"Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'"
"The Lindsey Graham via foreign policy is going to beat Rand Paul's libertarian view of foreign policy. It will beat Barack Obama's view of foreign policy. It will beat Hillary Clinton's view of foreign policy."
