Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Savage

I'm not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun... Not unless I have to!

Ani Difranco

People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.

Ann Coulter

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force

Ann Coulter

In a comprehensive study of all public multiple shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that the only public policy that reduced both the incidence and casualties of such shootings were concealed-carry laws. Not only are there 60 percent fewer gun massacres after states adopt concealed-carry laws, but the death and injury rate of such rampages are reduced by 80 percent.

Ann Coulter

It confirms my idea that you also need more liberal gun laws. Guns lead to a polite society, as we like to say in the United States. And I think that all of western Canada would agree with me.

Ann Coulter

I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal.

Andy Borowitz

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun.

Andy Borowitz

Call me a dreamer, but I think it would be great if getting medical attention were as easy as getting a gun.

Andrea Gibson

Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.

We are not going in with guns blazing; I've told my people that. We are disciplined first. We'll respond appropriately to whatever we face.

Alan Moore

Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

Alfred Nobel

For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.

Alexander Berkman

Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you just as the highwayman’s gun. You must live … You can’t work for yourself … The factories, machinery, and tools belong to the employing class, so you must hire yourself out to that class in order to work and live. Whatever you work at, whoever your employer may be, it always comes to the same: you must workfor him. You can’t help yourself. You are compelled.

Alexander Berkman

When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.

Alcee Hastings

Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.

Aaron McGruder

Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

A. E. van Vogt

The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.

Right now I am just going to stick to my guns and stay put.

Jan Brewer

Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.

Janet Reno

It doesn't matter to criminals if the event is called a gun show or a flea market -- if they can buy guns.

Janet Reno

Gun registration is not enough.

Janet Reno

Nobody should be owning a gun which does not have a sporting purpose.

Janet Reno

Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.

I don't have to put a gun in Robert Blake's hand to show he's responsible.

I don't know that we need this many guys with guns in New Orleans,

Barry Hannah

I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff.

Carl Sandburg

out of great Russia came three dusky syllables workmen took guns and went out to die for: Bread, Peace, Land.

Carol Burnett

I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.

Alan Cranston

Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.

Alan Gottlieb

Like it or not the American people support the term 'background check,' they support the concept of it even though they know it won't work to keep guns out of the hands of criminals they figure 'well if criminals aren't supposed to have guns what's the big deal about a background check,'

Alan Gottlieb

After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.

Alan Dershowitz

The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns.

Alan Dershowitz

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty.