Let's All Say Hello---
Rand Paul Republican U.S. Senate from Kentucky
Well, what it gets into then is if you decide that restaurants are publicly owned and not privately owned, then do you say that you should have the right to bring your gun into a restaurant, even though the owner of the restaurant says, "Well, no, we don't want to have guns in here." The bar says, "We don't want to have guns in here because people might drink and start fighting and shoot each other." Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant or does the government own his restaurant? These are important philosophical debates but not a very practical discussion.
"What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business."
"I think it's part of this sort of blame game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen."