"You can't play an emotional condition; you have an emotional condition, and because you have that condition, you try to overcome it with active doings (intentions)."

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I've thought for some time that the answer to a lot of problems in the Middle East, including Iran, include an active role with Russia. And I think, in some ways, we've taken show votes in the U.N. that are guaranteed to failure before we take them.

— Rand Paul