Who chose to #StandWithRand?

• Position: Rand Paul's filibustering on drones

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"Dear #RandPaul, thanks for filibustering John Brennan! Love, @Codepink DC#StandWithRand"

--Code Pink tweet

"The establishment, the rents, went out to dinner--Obama, McCain, Lindsey Graham-nesty.... When they got back home they found all, the furniture out on the front porch.... The new kids in town captivated the nation talking to them about freedom.... [Paul] just wanted Obama to acknowledge in a letter that Obama will not kill Americans sitting a care minding their own business with a drone. And the regime wouldn't respond."

--Rush Limbaugh, on his radio show

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"I want it understood that I have great respect for this effort to really ask these kinds of questions. And Sen. Paul has certainly been digging into these issues in great detail.... The executive branch should not be allowed to conduct such a serious and far-reaching program by themselves without any scrutiny because that's not how American democracy works. That's not what our system is about."

--Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), joining Paul on the floor during the filibuster

"The junior senator from Kentucky didn't stop--or intend to stop--the elevation of John Brennan, who had already cleared the Intelligence Committee by a wide margin and was sure to be waved through on the final vote. But Paul did signal that there is a faction in the Senate that comprehends that our country is in a constitutional moment."

--Seth Lipsky, New York Post

"There is some-important about the United States Congress finding its footing and wanting to assert its role--its oversight role--in where and why and how its country wages war. Congress demanding to play its part in the waging of war is, in broad strokes, the way Congress is supposed to work."

--Rachel Maddow, MSNB

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"In the divided world of American politics, it's not easy to find an issue on which the legal affairs correspondent for the Nation and the former chairman of the American Conservative Union agree. But we've found one: the crucial importance of transparency in government, especially when the president claims the power to kill us without charges or trial, by directing the launching of a remote-control drone."

--David Keene, president of the National Rifle Association and former chairman of the American Conservative Union, and David Cole, correspondent for The Nation, Los Angeles Times op-ed

"Holy Howard Roark s ghost--it looks like we got us a good old fashion actual talkie...