Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juan Williams

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

Juan Williams

Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.

Judd Apatow

Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You're in a constant debate with a gun at your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it's hard to win the arguments.

Joseph Stalin

We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

Paul Robeson

Vast quantities of U.S. bombers, tanks and guns have been sent against Ho Chi Minh and his freedom-fighters; and now we are told that soon it will be 'advisable' to send America GI's into Indo-China in order that the tin, rubber and tungsten of Southeast Asia be kept by the "free world"-meaning white Imperialism .

Lea DeLaria

Guns don't kill, people do.

Jodi Picoult

I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.

P. J. O'Rourke

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

P. J. O'Rourke

The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.

Paul Broun

If passed by the U.N. and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the U.N. Small Arms Treaty would almost certainly force the United States to... create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.

Paul Broun

Its no secret that the Democrats and liberal media would love to take away our guns and mandate every aspect of our lives, but I refuse to let them get away with that.

Matt Groening

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.

Miyamoto Musashi

A bullet from a gun does not make a distinction between practice and combat. You are training to be one and the same way in your life

Mitt Romney

I don't support any gun control legislation.

Neill Blomkamp

There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations.

Neill Blomkamp

I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror.

Neil Young

We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

Mike Huckabee

What the Iranians have said is, "we will wipe Israel off the face of the map, and we will bring death to America." When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously, and we need to take that seriously.

Mike Huckabee

When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously.

Niall Horan

A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1 in America. The top four that week was us, Adele, Guns N' Roses and Bruce Springsteen. It was ridiculous seeing those names there. Being the first band from the U.K. and Ireland to go to America and debut at No. 1 is just unbelievable.

Niccolo Machiavelli

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.

Joey Dunlop

One or two of the trips were a bit scary. Soldiers had me at gun point on one trip, locked me in my van all night and escorted me in and out of buildings when I wanted to wash.

Joe Slovo

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

Howard Schultz

We woke up one day, and all the sudden Starbucks was in the middle of this political crossfire between the people who want to bring a gun into Starbucks and the people who want to prevent it. It is a very difficult, fragile situation.

Ice T

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

He pretty much did it all. His improvement was key to our success. He'll be our big gun next year.

Ishmael Beah

My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

Ida B. Wells

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

Idris Elba

I've got two smoking guns that just look incredible, and I love to pull them out whenever I can.

Katie McGrath

The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses.

Ken Blanchard

How many of you would put in front of your house a sign that says gun-free zone?