"Let's let college students deduct the entire cost of their educations over their working careers. Let's make college tuition entirely deductible," Paul said. Paul did not elaborate on how this would happen and his campaign did not return a request for comment.

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Paul, who took to the stage to The Who, pointed to tech visionaries and college dropouts Steve Jobs and Bill Gates as examples of innovators who didn't conform to rules. He quoted both Jobs and Pink Floyd.

"Pink Floyd also understood that genius needs to be left alone. Whether your ideas are p.c. or not, whether you're a painter or a self-proclaimed prophet the exhortation is to shine. To not let conformity dim your light. To shine on, you crazy diamond," Paul said.

"For the crazy diamonds to shine, government must get out of the way," he said.

Paul got big cheers for his proclamations that the government should not be snooping on electronic records and for the right to privacy.

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"I will not run roughshod over our liberties," he said.

He touted his work across the aisle, pointing to bills he worked on with Democrats Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, including one on medical marijuana.

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"I will work with anyone. I don't care if you're a Republican, a Democrat or a Lilliputian," he said.

He spoke about inequality in the criminal justice system, calling for parity in drug sentencing laws and conceding that Republicans have not done a good job discussing how they will alleviate poverty, and said he will "not rest" until people of all races and socioeconomic backgrounds are treated equally under the law.

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"If a guy selling loose cigarettes and he's not paying the king's ransom in taxes couldn't we give him a ticket and tell him to move on instead of throwing him to the pavement?" Paul asked, citing the case of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who was selling cigarettes and died after being put in a choke hold by police.

Paul laid the blame for the country's spending and debt issues at the feet of the students' parents, saying that there is little left for their generation and that they must work to turn the country around.

But most of all, he said, he wants college students to get off the couch.