“We need to figure out what is going on with terrorism. We need to figure why they attack us. Some Republicans don’t want to hear this, but I live near Fort Campbell and there’s 50,000 soldiers there and I tell people you have to imagine your feelings—and you have to truly imagine what your feelings would be if those soldiers were Chinese soldiers and they were occupying the United States. We wouldn’t have it. Republican and Democrat, we’d be setting the roadside bombs, blowing up the Chinese soldiers as they came off the base. No country wants foreign soldiers on their land.”

Likewise, Paul added he did not think Iran was a threat to the United States.

“Recently the national intelligence estimate came out and said Iran’s not building and hasn’t been working on a nuclear bomb for four or five years. Iran cannot even refine their own gasoline. Western or European countries have to help them get the oil out of the ground and sent to Europe and refine and sent back. I find it hard to believe that a country that can’t refine their gas is somehow a threat to our national security.”