Famous Quotes & Sayings

Homer

A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

Cam Newton

If I'm thinking about a particular injury, then I'm already a step behind. If I'm so gun shy in the pocket and not worried about the receivers that are open down field, something's going to happen that's not going to get the job done. So my main focus is having confidence in myself knowing that I'm able to be myself when I'm out there.

Dusty Baker

I don't think that radar gun is right up there. There were some pitches I knew were mid-90s, and they said 87 on the board. I don't know if that's by design.

How safe are we walking around at night? ... I don't do it. My husband says I'm scared. I say, 'Look what's going on.' If they could get the guns off the street, I'd feel safer.

Hunter S. Thompson

All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.

Hunter S. Thompson

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

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.

Harold Pinter

It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.

Harold Ramis

It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.

James Bovard

Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens. The worse government fails to control crime, the more the politicians want to restrict individuals' rights to defend themselves. But police protection in most places is typical government work - slow, inefficient, and unreliable...

James Cagney

I`m sick of carrying guns and beating up women.

Irving Azoff

A lot of people refer to power as shooting a loaded gun. When you have to shoot the gun, you've lost the power. Other people's knowledge of your gun should be enough.

Paul Ryan

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.

Paul Harvey

They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?

Patrick Leahy

A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.

Patrick Henry

The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

Patrick Henry

I'm sick of all you ammo-phobes being intolerant of my gun.

Patrick Henry

This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.

Patrick Henry

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?

Patrick Henry

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

Pat Buchanan

Do not wait for orders from headquarters! Mount up, everybody, and ride to the sound of the guns!

Juan Williams

I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.

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.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

When I see Bin Laden with his AK-47, I got nervous. But what can I do, terrorists aren't fools: they too chose the most reliable guns.

Marian Wright Edelman

You have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change? How do you learn from England and the other places, or Australia? In England, they don't carry guns on the whole. It's a different kind of mentality that does not demonize, and it's justified on race and income and class.

Marian Wright Edelman

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.