Speakeasy: Why the Pauls split

Published July 1, 2011 4:00am EST | Updated October 31, 2023 2:03pm EST



“I thought I was going to go back to getting my allowance again, and I wasn’t getting an allowance. I said, ‘Dad, this is the pits.’”

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to ABC News’s Rick Klein, on why he moved out of the house he was sharing with his dad, Rep. Ron Paul. Rand went on to say that the real reason was the traffic on the 14th Street Bridge.