L.A. Paul Quotes

We need a Republican Party that shows up on the South side of Chicago and shouts at the top of our lungs, 'We are the party of jobs and opportunity! The GOP is the ticket to the middle class.

I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.

2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time.

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

I think it's a conundrum. If we have no laws on this, people take it to one extension further, does it have to be humans, you know?

Our legislative victory - an end to earmarks.

The GOP of old has grown old and moss covered.

I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime ... unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party. And it has to be a transformation. Not a little tweaking at the edges.

I think the entire world knows, and North Korea knows, that if they used any weapons on our soldiers they would be obliterated. And it would be an overwhelming response.

Really, while gas is an awful thing to watch - the death is painful - to even watch these deaths - it's also bad to die from a bullet, a hand grenade, or a machete.

The one way, possibly, out of this is for [Bashar] Assad to abdicate and plead, perhaps to Russia or somewhere else. Would save another wave of civilian casualties if we could get him to abdicate.

For example, the use of chemical weapons [in Syria]- some on the Democrat side have said well, this encourages the North Koreans to use chemical weapons against our troops.

I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic rebels to be in charge of Syria either.

I just can't vote to go to war unless I think there's a real clear-cut American purpose in the war, that we're going to win and that we're not going fight for stalemate.

We should understand the limitations of war. We should understand the sacrifices our young men and women go through losing lives and limbs. And they should only do it for the highest of purposes.

I think that by arming the allies of ISIS, the Islamic rebels against [Bashar] Assad, that we created a safe space or made that space bigger for ISIS to grow.

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

I don't think we're doing an adequate vetting process of those who are coming to our country.

The separation of powers is about legislative powers. It isn't about discussion or words.

We didn't create ISIS - ISIS created themselves, but we will stop them, and one of the ways we stop them is by not funding them, and not arming them.

John McCain's complaint is we're either not at war somewhere, or if we're at war, we leave too soon. So we're not there soon enough, and he wants us to stay forever wherever we send troops.

Hardened terrorists are coming here to hit us hard if we don't hit them first.

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

John McCain is the guy that has advocated for war everywhere. He would bankrupt the nation.

We don't have enough money to rebuild our own country if we're rebuilding everyone else's countries.

Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.

The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect.

The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone.

We should offer the American public less expensive insurance.

America does not need to continue to have regime change throughout the world, nation-building.

We're for the balanced budget amendment and yet the budget we're going to introduce, that we're going to repeal Obamacare with never balances.

I won't support any budget, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat budget, that doesn't lead to balance.

How would you possibly sell 700 companies in a fire sale and hope to get what they were worth?It's just an unrealistic sort of standard they're trying to hold [Donald Trump] to.

I do want to see an immigration compromise. And you can't have an immigration compromise if everybody's out there calling the president a racist.

We are more polarized. And some of that comes from the people and some of that comes from the media.

I'm the leading voice in America for not arming the allies of ISIS.

The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base - get independent voters and voters who haven't been voting for your party to come to your party.

Al Qaeda has been placed on the run, but not destroyed.

I'm an internationalist. I want to help others, not just kill terrorists.

When you ask yourself, whoever you are, that think you're going to support Donald Trump, think, do you believe in the Constitution? Are you going to change the Constitution?

If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of. It would defy every norm that is America.

I think those who have wanted regime [of Bashar Assad] change have made a mistake.

When we toppled [Muammar] Gadhafi in Libya, I think that was a mistake. I think ISIS grew stronger, we had a failed state, and we were more at risk.

I think we ought to quit sending [help] to countries that burn our flag.

I don't think we're actually using the constitutional tools that we have in an appropriate fashion.

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

I would pay to have those adjudications enrolled into the federal background system so we could detect people who are mentally ill before they buy a gun. That is a real problem.

I've introduced legislation to say, "For right now, let's stop it," from about 34 countries.

The government has investigated our program of collecting through a generalized fashion, everyone's phone records in the country. And they found that no terrorist case has been thwarted through this.

I think that we have to be very careful about who comes here from the Middle East.