NPR's "Weekend Edition" Spotlights Rand Paul

Audio: http://www.npr.org/player/embed/461095849/461095850 -Snip- "HORSLEY: Rand Pail listened carefully and absorbed much of his father's small government philosophy. Before he tried taking a scalpel to government, though, Rand Paul followed his father into medicine. Pyeatt shows me a high school yearbook with a striking photo of young Randy in anatomy class, smiling as he dissects a cat. PYEATT: He said - when he was a very young man, he said, I'm going to be a medical doctor. He knew exactly what he wanted to be and exactly what he needed to do to get there and be successful. HORSLEY: In 1981, Paul went off to college at Baylor University in Waco, taking his homegrown politics along. He joined a new political organization, the Young Conservatives of Texas. Founder Steve Munisteri says Paul quickly distinguished himself, offering a college-aged preview of the speaking ability that would later make him a C-SPAN sensation. STEVE MUNISTERI: He can quote philosophers to you. He can quote poets to you. He can quote text from Austrian economics. I mean, he was somebody that would constantly explore what you believed in and what he believed in." <a href="http://www.npr.org/2015/12/26/461095849/raised-around-cry-for-smaller-go...">Read More</a>