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First-term Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, said Tuesday that lack of experience can sometimes be a good thing for people seeking top offices against career politicians who have become entrenched in the current political system.

I was a physician, and then a U.S. Senator, and people said, You need to be a state legislator and a mayor and all of these other things before youre in the U.S. Senate and I absolutely disagree with that because I think in some ways, when you have people who are career politicians, theyve been beaten down by the system and are so part of the system that they cant see all the problems of the system, Paul told reporters after speaking at a school choice forum in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood.

The comments came after last weeks remarks by Bob Dole, a former GOP presidential nominee and long-serving U.S. senator who belittled Paul and fellow Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as first termers.

I don't think they've got enough experience yet, Dole told the Eagle newspaper of Wichita, Kansas.

While Paul said he was not responding directly to Dole, the Kentucky Republican said, Maybe you can have too much (experience as well) in the sense that I think that over long periods of time, people lose their zeal for change in Washington and they become part of the system.

Paul said he never criticized President Barack Obama, a first-term Illinois senator, for having a lack of experience when he sought the White House.

Pauls appearance at Josephinum Academy, a Catholic all-girl high school, was part of a two-day Midwest swing to tout school choice as a way to try to gain Republican support from traditional Democratic voters in the African-American and Latino communities.

We have to figure out as Republicans how to get our message to the people who favor charter schools and choice in schools and say, Look, we do care about your kids and frankly the other side cares more about the status quo than your kids.

During his talk, co-hosted by the conservative Illinois Policy Institute, Paul labeled the fight for school choice and publicly funded vouchers as between dead enders and those who believe in education. Afterward, Paul told reporters the dead enders included Democrats in Illinois and nationally, as well as teachers unions.

The Chicago Teachers Union and other educators unions have opposed many aspects of school choice, including charter schools and vouchers, contending they divert public tax dollars from public schools.

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Washington:US Senator Rand Paul, a potential presidential candidate in 2016, said the Republican Party would win more support from young voters by highlighting what he says are violations of privacy by the federal government, including the National Security Agency's surveillance programs.

''It's a message that can grow the party, and the party's got to grow bigger or we're not going to win again,'' Senator Paul, a Kentucky Republican, said on Sunday on Fox News Sunday.

Republicans are looking to improve their showing after President Barack Obama won 60 per cent support among voters younger than 30 in the 2012 elections, according to a national exit poll.

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''Young people across the country are fed up with a government that says, 'Hey, the Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to your records, doesn't apply to your cellphone','' Senator Paul said on the Fox program, referring to constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.

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The 51-year-old senator is trying to build on the network of libertarian-leaning supporters that his father, former Representative Ron Paul of Texas, amassed during his 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. The younger Paul has taken positions on civil liberties, criminal justice and foreign policy that differ from Republican orthodoxy, including his opposition to NSA spy programs.

''Lovers of liberty'' can't always agree with the Republican Party, he said last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor in Maryland.

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U.S. Senator Rand Paul, a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, called for expanded school choice for poor and minority children while visiting President Barack Obamas Democrat-dominated hometown of Chicago.

Weve been trying the same thing in education for 50 to 100 years, Paul said today. Education, particularly in our big cities, has been a downward spiral, so I think just throwing more money at the problem hasnt fixed the problem.

Its the latest venue the Kentucky lawmaker, a favorite of the limited-government Tea Party movement, has picked in the past year to try to showcase himself as a different kind of Republican as he pushes his party to grow beyond its base.

He spoke last year at historically black Howard University in Washington, to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and at the Detroit Economic Club, where he argued for economic freedom zones for blighted urban areas. He also called for income-tax cuts to a flat 5 percent in areas with unemployment more than 1.5 times the national average.

Minority and urban voters overwhelmingly backed Obama in the 2012 election, and Republicans have been searching for ways to blunt the Democratic advantage with both blacks and Hispanics, the fastest-growing segment of the electorate.

Such outside-the-box appearances bring with them political reward and risk for the ophthalmologist and first-term lawmaker.

Paul drew groans at Howard and was later criticized after he asked one woman whether she was aware that Republicans helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nations oldest civil-rights organization. She knew that they played such a role.

The charter school expansion Paul called for during his appearance is popular among many Republicans. Whats unique is the emphasis hes placing on how it could help disadvantaged minority students in Americas urban areas.

No one in Washington really is very good at education and knows anything about education, Paul said today at Josephinum Academy, an all-female Catholic high school northwest of Chicagos downtown with a student population thats just 5 percent non-Hispanic white. They should have very little to do with your education. These decisions should be made in Chicago, in Illinois, in Kentucky, but not in Washington.

Paul wants more charter schools, which are independent of local school districts and typically free of unionized teachers. The push for such schools has also been a favorite cause for billionaires including Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, homebuilding and insurance entrepreneur Eli Broad, and Wal-Mart Stores Inc.s Walton family.

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