Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne LaPierre

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

Van Jones

The main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun.

Tyson Gay

I've really learned over the years how to control my adrenaline and let it all out when they shoot the gun versus letting the crowd and the lights and the camera get to me.

William Gurnall

A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

Warren Zevon

They say love conquers all You can't start it like a car You can't stop it with a gun.

Stephen Colbert

What's the worst that can happen? A tidal wave? Glaciers with guns?

Stephen Colbert

The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun

Tim Walz

I feel like Ive got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.

Thomas Jefferson

All power is inherent in the people.

Thomas Jefferson

I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common fire-arms. I did not suppose any part of the United States so destitute of what is considered as among the first necessaries of a farm-house.

Ron Paul

Even if you don't like guns and don't want to own them, you benefit from those who do.

Ron Paul

Prohibiting guns on campus made the Virginia Tech students less safe, not more.

Ron Paul

What can you do? More and more Americans are carrying a gun in the car. An ex-cop I know advises that if you have to use a gun on a youth, you should leave the scene immediately, disposing of the wiped off gun as soon as possible. Such a gun cannot, of course, be registered to you, but one bought privately (through the classifieds, for example.)

Ron Paul

Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.

Susan Cain

If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns.

Susan Cain

So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.

Suheir Hammad

I do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill. I have never been so hungry that I willed hunger. I have never been so angry as to want to control a gun over a pen. Not really. Even as a woman, as a Palestinian, as a broken human being. Never this broken.

Studs Terkel

One night a guy hit his head on a welding gun. He went to his knees. He was bleeding like a pig, blood was oozing out. So I stopped the line for a second and ran over to help him. The foreman turned the line on again, he almost stepped on the guy. That's the first thing they always do. They didn't even call an ambulance. The guy walked to the medic department -- that's about half a mile -- he had about five stitches put in his head. The foreman didn't say anything. He just turned the line on. You're nothing to any of them.

Stephen Gaghan

It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gun point.

Mother Teresa

Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.

Mike Huckabee

I almost wish that there would be something like a simultaneous telecast and all Americans would be forced, forced - at gun point no less - to listen to every David Barton message.

Peter Kreeft

condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.

Pauly Shore

My belief is guns don't kill people, people kill people.

Phil Gramm

I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want.

Phil Collins

Like last night I had a sequence with a gun and, to be honest, for me to be threatening with a gun and not be comical is quite hard.

Queen Rania of Jordan

To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?

Sean Hannity

I ask the question all the time of people that are on the anti-gun side. And I say, OK, if you're in a situation like the tragedy and the murderous rage in San Bernardino and you're in a room like that, would you want somebody that knew how to use a firearm and had one with them, or if somebody breaks into your house, what are you going to do if they are armed and you are not?And there's not a good answer. There's no good answer except you're a sitting duck for the most part if you're not armed.

Si Robertson

It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.

Si Robertson

First it's pretty tires. Next it's pretty guns. Then the next thing you know, you're shaving your beard and wearing capri pants.

Shelley Duvall

In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it.

Shelby Lynne

I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.

Shanola Hampton

I would like one day to play an FBI cop, just so I can hold the gun and shoot.