Senator Rand Paul

So there is a real problem.

And yes, I think it might lead to regime change.

And some of the more skeptical among us think that maybe this is a provocation to lead to real regime change, a provocation to get the Venezuelans to react so we can then insert the military.

I hope that's not true.

Yes, I will co-sponsor the War Powers Act later this week.

And we will be discussing this on the floor.

I think it's one of the most important debates we have.

And the idea that you can kill someone who you don't know their name and has had no process at all.

People say, oh, you're going to give due process to fentanyl killers and all of this.

Even in our country, 20,000 people commit murders.

And as angry as we are, if it were my family, I would, you know, want to shoot them.

But we still have trials because occasionally the accused is found innocent and not guilty.

Occasionally we make mistakes.

But we can't have a policy where we just blow up ships where we don't even know the people's names.

It can't be the policy for drug interdiction either in the country or outside the country.

So I will support a war resolution to say the government shouldn't be doing this.

There will be people quietly who will say it's the right thing to do and will respect me for doing the right thing.

I think most will be afraid of the response from the White House.

I wrote a book called The Case Against Socialism, and so I'm not for government ownership of the means of production, but I'm also not for the government owning 10% of the means of production.

They're all various forms and degrees of socialism.