RAND PAUL SPEECH IN IOWA - WHAT IS WRONG WITH WASHINGTON

RAND PAUL SPEECH IN IOWA - WHAT IS WRONG WITH WASHINGTON MILITARY: I WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES, I WILL SPEND WHATEVER IT TAKES TO DEFEND OUR COUNTRY. WE DON'T PROJECT STRENGTH ACROSS THE BOARD IF WE DO IT FROM BANKRUPTCY COURT. WE SPENT $15 MILLION ON FREE EDUCATION FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS. WE SPENT $800,000 IN AFGHANISTAN FOR A TELEVISED CRICKET LEAGUE, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE TELEVISIONS IN AFGHANISTAN.     Rand Paul United States Senator for Kentucky

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anybody here happy with what's going on in washington any consolation I kept him 0:12 up till three in the morning 0:14 haranguing them and telling them you know why not for adding one penny more 0:20 in debt 0:21 here's what frustrates me we elected a Republican al's we elected a Republican 0:34 said it and what we have to show for it 0:36 the jet continues to rise to spending continues to rise in fact this deal was 0:46 put together by the Republican establishment and President Obama what 0:52 is the deal allows President Obama I'm limited ability to add depth and his 0:59 last year anybody think that's a good idea 1:03 the right and the left 1:06 got together and this is important to understand because it also goes to the 1:12 uniqueness of my candidacy the left once more welfare they want more domestic 1:18 spending but some on the right day only gotta have more military spending so you 1:24 know what they both get together and they raised both but as a consequence we 1:29 go further and further into debt and some say well military's important short 1:35 is it's the most important thing we do in washington is defend the country and 1:41 I will do whatever it takes and spend whatever it takes to defend our country 1:50 mean a blank check just as mean leaking like go further and further into debt 1:58 that we're somehow going to say oh we're stronger and stronger because by adding 2:04 more and more to the debt I don't think that we project power to the world I 2:09 don't think we project strength of the world if we're doing it from bankruptcy 2:13 court so you have to look at spending across the board and if you say to 2:19 yourself that you're a fiscal conservative yet to be conservative with 2:23 all money whether its military money or domestic welfare the compromise in 2:29 washington's going in the wrong direction the compromise in Washington 2:34 is to raise all spending what we really need is a compromise where we cut 2:39 spending and hold the line all the way across the board all spending has to be 2:45 conserved oh my goodness where it would be cut any spending where how can we cut 2:58 any spending I'll give you a couple of examples we spend fifteen million 3:04 dollars on free education for foreign students where the way the Constitution 3:12 said that we need to be providing free education for foreign students that's 3:16 crazy we spend $100,000 last year in Afghanistan developing a televised 3:25 cricket so they can watch cricket on TV only problem is I don't have televisions 3:32 in Afghanistan one in 10,000 people have a television in Afghanistan and why 3:38 would we be borrowing money from China to send it to Afghanistan and its insane 3:45 we spent two hundred and fifty thousand dollars last year bringing 24 kids from 3:53 Pakistan 3:54 an to send a new Space Camp in Alabama I know a lot of american kids who like to 4:00 go to Space Camp can afford it whether we spending our money to Pakistan to 4:05 bring their kids to his face cam we spent about $300,000 studying whether or 4:12 not 4:13 Japanese quail are more sexually promiscuous on cocaine I think we could 4:21 have just told the audience is this finding go on and on 4:25 why do we keep spending money hand over fist is wasted 4:30 well the reason we do is because people in washington lacked the courage to stop 4:36 it 4:36 we have the power to stop it 4:46 automatically expires every year so when they tell you oh we don't have the votes 4:51 to defund Planned Parenthood hogwash it's not true 4:57 Planned Parenthood's funding expires at the end of the year I say let it expire 5:04 the Liberals just started up again we have to make some decisions we send 5:21 money 5:22 virtually everywhere on the planet there was a map yesterday that was produced 5:26 that shows where we send money there's almost no country on if it were not 5:30 sending money to but I thought you know what maybe we shouldn't send any to our 5:35 enemies do you think we could just start by not sending any money to our enemies 5:40 touches Washington though if you ask people here in the crowd how many of you 5:52 think we should spend money or send money to countries that persecute 5:57 Christians 10 right to write met two people want to send money to persecute 6:04 Christians almost nobody believes we should send money around the world to 6:08 countries that persecute Christians so I put in a bill and in my bill I said 6:13 nobody to any country that persecute Christians and how did I do find that I 6:19 did find that by any country that puts Christians to death for criticizing the 6:24 state religion 6:32 what I introduced it into the foreign relations committee to you at the vote 6:37 was 18 to do to continue sending your money to countries of persecution they 6:44 just don't get it and that's why I'm a big proponent proponent of limiting all 6:50 their terms they all the term limits the President and I say how long you have if 7:09 you want to sum it all up it isn't just Obamacare it isn't just the banking 7:14 regulations it's not just the new environmental regulations the real thing 7:20 that the president has bequeathed us that is unfortunate is the collapse of 7:26 the separation of powers we were supposed to have co-equal branches of 7:30 government 7:31 we're supposed to have government that would have checks and balances Madison 7:37 put it this way Madison said that the ambition of Congress to gain power would 7:43 be checked against the ambition of the president again power and there would be 7:47 checks and balances we've had a total collapse of that the equilibrium that 7:52 once existed is gone 7:54 the president is writing all of the rules by executive order if I'm 7:59 President on a one-out eliminate all of those in person some executive orders 8:10 if we want to win again if Republicans want to win the president's team we need 8:18 to not only figure out who are going to nominate within the primary we need to 8:23 figure out who can best win in the fall issey Iowa isn't just about the 8:28 Republican primary I always become a tough state to win we lost the last two 8:33 times to President Obama year we lost in new hampshire the last two times we have 8:38 to decide what does it take to win again they're eighteen states that we haven't 8:44 won in 30 years how are we gonna win those states again now some of the 8:48 monkey monks in the powers that be say we need to dilute our values we need to 8:53 dilute what we stand for 8:55 we need to be democrat light anybody think we need to be democrat like to win 9:00 again I think we keep our values in fact I think we need to be more boldly for 9:07 what we are for but we do have to figure out how to have a bigger party we have 9:16 always been the hardy of limited government of less regulation of lower 9:20 taxation but you know what happens in washington you can't get them to even 9:25 vote for a tax cut in washington anymore I have a tax plan that would wipe out 9:30 all 70,000 pages of the tax code and the IRS 9:37 my tax plan would have your tax return on one simple postcard one single rate 9:47 for business and one single rate for individuals but my tax plan does 9:56 something that they're afraid of in washington both Republicans and 10:01 Democrats in Washington they say well we were not going to cut taxes we're just 10:06 gonna shift the burden happen you will get a tax cut and half of you will get a 10:11 tax increase and we'll call it fair where you have to understand where jobs 10:15 are created jobs are created by the private sector so we need is more money 10:20 left in the private sector to me it's as simple as this I want to leave more 10:25 money and Iowa and send less money to washington 10:33 we need to broaden our horizons we need a new and bigger party so what I've been 10:42 saying is I've traveled the country is that what we need to become as the party 10:46 of the entire bill of rights we're doing great on the second amendment most of 10:51 his years of support Second Amendment I support the second amendment fact if you 10:55 don't believe me 10:56 come to my house unannounced to support the bill of rights in its entirety if 11:04 you want to support the second amendment you gotta support the fourth amendment 11:08 which says that's the right to be left alone the right to not have the 11:13 government coming your house without a warrant we need to defend the entire 11:23 bill of rights what is the night the moment most people forget about the 11:28 nineteen members the ninth amendment was one of the most important parts of the 11:32 bill of rights in fact the bill of rights would have never passed without 11:35 the Ninth Amendment because many of the critics said would you list certain 11:40 rights the people think that's all of the rights and they'll think that that's 11:44 a complete listing to the people who put the bill of rights on the Constitution 11:48 said we need to make sure they know this is just the beginning it's an impartial 11:53 or incomplete list of your bill right through the night to manage says those 11:58 rights not listed or not to be disparaged disparage because your rights 12:04 come from your Creator and they are unlimited 12:10 says those powers not delegated specifically to congress are left to the 12:20 states in people and the people respectively 12:22 if we obeyed that you have a balanced budget every year because a half of what 12:27 they do at least half of what they're doing in washington was never specified 12:32 by the constitution if we want to broaden the appeal of our party if we 12:42 want to be the party that becomes big enough to win Iowa again big enough to 12:46 win illinois michigan pennsylvania all of these states that we haven't been 12:51 winning we need to bring new people there and what I've been talking a lot 12:55 about is the fifth and sixth amendment the Fifth Amendment says if the 12:59 government doesn't have the right to take your property to government cannot 13:03 take your property without due process and you would think well who could be 13:07 against that 13:08 well we've had this debate with with Mr Trump because mr. Trump that's part of 13:13 his business model is to take property through eminent domain for his casinos I 13:18 think it's wrong and if I'm President no private property will be taken by 13:22 government and given to another private property owner the Sixth Amendment says 13:32 that you have a right to a trial by jury and you think well gosh who can be 13:36 against that I've been at the forefront of trying to defend your right to a 13:41 trial by jury but I can tell you some of its slipping away in 2011 we had a bill 13:47 that says an American citizen can be indefinitely detained and I fought it 13:52 tooth and nail in fact I had a debate on the floor with another republican 13:56 senator and I don't like to name names but it was from arizona and I said I 14:04 said incredulously do you mean that an American citizen could be put in prison 14:09 forever without a trial he said yes if they're dangerous I said sorta begs the 14:14 question doesn't it 14:15 who gets to decide who's dangerous and who's not the right to a trial by jury 14:21 is something we fought long 14:23 long and hard for I know a young man who lost both legs and an arm in the war 14:28 when asked what he was fighting for his sister the bill of rights would it be 14:32 sad if we gave up on that would be sad if he gave up so much and while I was 14:37 gone we gave up on the bill of rights when I had that debate and McCain was 14:44 saying we're just going to pluck people up with her dangerous I was thinking of 14:47 the times we got it wrong I was thinking of the times when we incarcerated the 14:52 japanese-americans during World War Two by the hundreds of thousands for no 14:57 crime at all we got it wrong we tap the phones of civil rights leaders in the 15:02 sixties and those who protested against the war I was thinking of the times when 15:07 we've got it wrong 15:09 richard was falsely accused of the Olympic Square bombing remember about 15 15:13 20 years ago everybody city did it was all over television but he didn't do it 15:19 fact that the networks had to pay millions of dollars and I was thinking 15:23 to myself during this debate over the right to a trial by jury was thinking 15:26 what if richard jewell had been a black man in the south in 1929 the rest of the 15:33 day 15:34 to the republican party has been the party of civil rights we have been the 15:38 party of justice we have been the party of equal protection you know what we 15:43 don't have to give up on any of our philosophy limited government it's part 15:48 of our message we just need to recapture that message of justice and when we do 15:53 when we become the party of the entire bill of rights when we become the party 15:58 of justice again when we become the party that defends the right to a trial 16:02 by jury with the same fervor and their same passion that we defend the second 16:08 amendment we're gonna rock and roll to victory I want to be part of that party 16:13 and I hope you do too thank you very much