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Let’s just say I wasn’t a choir boy when I was in college and that I can recognize that kids make mistakes. And I can say I made mistakes when I was a kid.
— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), in an interview with WHAS, when asked about his previous marijuana use.
I’m almost certainly going to be doing that at some point.
— Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), telling CNN that he plans to endorse Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), in his widely expected bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
I have no clue where his head is now. By the way, people say: ‘Convince your brother to run.’ You can’t convince him to run – only he can make the decision. And pushing him doesn’t help, by the way.
— Former President George W. Bush, in a CNN interview.
It’s a horrible thing that he was killed, but he could have avoided that if he’d behaved like something other than a thug.
— Mike Huckabee, in an interview with Newsmax, on Michael Brown, the black teenager shot and killed by a white policeman in Ferguson, Mo.
The failures of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy are manifest. It’s almost as if the whole world is on fire right now.
— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), doing his best to tie Hillary Clinton to President Obama as he offered sharp criticism of the “Obama-Clinton” foreign policy, the New York Times reports.
And perhaps more important, can I do it where the sacrifice for my family is tolerable? Every person that runs for office at any level — it’s a big sacrifice because it’s a pretty ugly business right now.
— Jeb Bush, quoted by Bloomberg, on running for president.
I don’t think I’m all that conservative.
— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), quoted by the New York Observer.
19%
Percentage of Republican voters nationwide who prefer Mitt Romney as their presidential nominee again, followed by Jeb Bush at 11% and Chris Christie and Ben Carson at 8% each, according to a new Quinnipiac poll. No other Republican tops 6%. With Romney out of the race, Jeb Bush leads with 14%, followed by Christie at 11%, Carson at 9% and Sen. Rand Paul at 8%.
I say this only half-jokingly, that you have to be crazy to want to be president. Anyone who’s seen the pictures of this president or any of the former presidents can see the before and after, no matter how fit, no matter how young they are, they age pretty rapidly when you look at their hair and everything else involved with it.
— Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), quoted by Fox6 Now, who wants to be president.
I think if you look at his statements and you look at his record he would be the most right-wing candidate any major party has nominated, including Barry Goldwater. He is that far off the spectrum. … I think his chances of winning swing votes in battleground states are my chances of being the starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos.
— Former Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, telling OZY that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) would be “the most right-wing” presidential candidate in history if he won the GOP nomination in 2016.
