"Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?" ― Rand Paul Topic(s): Government More From Rand Paul "A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin." "We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government." "You can’t have it both ways. You can’t tell me that you’re taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, ‘Bring me home some bacon.’ The pig has been picked clean." More In Government "It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government."― John W. Gardner "We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops… and force migratory birds to stay where they are."― Vladimir Zhirinovsky "Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."― Russell Baker