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Sen. Rand Paul is a Different Kind of Republican. He will drag the party, kicking and screaming, toward a new kind of conservatism that appeals more to today's youth, who embrace liberty and are skeptical of foreign intervention.

Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.

I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.

McConnell's the Senate Republican leader, but he refuses to lead on defunding Obamacare. What good is a leader like that?

My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.

Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

I get along very well with Paul Ryan personally. We have very deep differences on policy issues. But we express them civilly.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal.

While I am a Republican, I'm a conservative first and I'm a constitutional conservative, and in Washington some of the Republicans are oftentimes just as much a problem as some of the Democrats, and we need to elect more senators like Senator Rubio and others who will stand proudly as conservatives to do the right thing for our country.