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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.’ I 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.
— Rand Paul (TB-KY), criticizing President Obama’s criticism of oil giant BP, because in Paul’s world, it’s not lax regulation, poor oversight and purposeful negligence that caused the worst oil spill ever, it’s accidents.
I feel she destroyed the culture of my father’s company … To be fair to Carly, the HP board should have known better when it hired her. If you have a pet bunny and get a pet ferret, you can’t really blame the ferret for eating the bunny. That’s what ferrets do.
– David Packer, son of a founder of Hewlett-Packard, describing Republican California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina’s tenure as HP CEO.
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.
— Rand Paul (R), in a letter to the Bowling Green Daily News in 2002. After two tough interviews yesterday trying to explain his views, Paul claimed today that he would have supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act which outlawed that kind of discrimination.
