"We have Islamic rebels [in Syria] who've been eating the hearts or organs of their enemies. We have priests that have been killed. We have Christian villages that have been razed by Islamic rebels. We have Islamic rebels who say they don't recognize Israel and would just as soon attack Israel as [Bashar] Assad. So really, I see no clear-cut American interest, and I'm afraid that sometimes things unravel, and the situation could become less stable and not more stable."
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"In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people we publicly criticize that and don't belong to those groups or associate with those people."
"With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses."
"And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom."
"You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you."
"It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money."
"Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!"
"I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don't condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important."
"I call myself a constitutional conservative."
"I am encouraged President Obama now says he will fulfill his constitutional obligation to seek authorization for any potential military action in Syria. This is the most important decision any President or any Senator must make, and it deserves vigorous debate"
"The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers."
"You can send a clear message to the establishment"
"The insurance companies make about $15 billion a year. They have doubled their profit margin under Obamacare. And so now we're going to take a lot of this and call it a stabilization fund, but really it's a bailout of insurance companies. And I just think that's wrong. I just can't see why ordinary, average taxpayers would be giving money to very, very wealthy corporations. An analogous situation would be this: We all complain that new cars cost too much. Why don't we have a new car stabilization fund and give $130 billion to car companies?"
"We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry."
"As our voices rise in protest, the NSA monitors your every phone call. if you have a cell phone, you are under surveillance. I believe what you do on your cell phone is none of their damn business."
"Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?"
"If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn’t have expected to be shot."
"Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so."
"I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form."
"If there were an ounce of courage in this body I would be joined by other senators… saying they will not tolerate this."