Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Dershowitz

The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.

Al Capone

You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

Al Capone

You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.

Al Capone

A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.

Al Capone

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

Al Gore

And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that.

Al Gore

I think that we should ban so-called junk guns. I think we should ban assault weapons like the weapons used here [in Fort Worth], yes. I think that the kinds of weapons that have no legitimate use for hunting or the kind of weapon that a homeowner would use, I think they should be banned, yes, those kind of weapons.

Charles Barkley

I don't get into the gun stuff. Some guys have guns who go hunting. Where do we stop (the gun control) at? I'm not a hunter, but we can't say people can't have guns.

Channing Tatum

Well, the first and only time I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again. But I know a lot about guns, so I go to the gun range and stuff like that with friends sometimes.

Brad Pitt

There are certain aspects of celebrity that I understand, although that's not the main point of the story [ in Assassination of Jesse James] , but it is one of the by products. I certainly understand what its like to be hunted and have a bounty on my head but at least nobody is pointing guns at me.

Bonnie Raitt

I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.

Bobby Charlton

Tottenham have impressed me. They haven't thrown in the towel even though they have been under the gun.

Barry Goldwater

Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!

Antonin Scalia

It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the right to maintain a designated "Militia." Dispassionate scholarship suggests quite strongly that the right of the people to keep and bear arms meant just that.

Bruce Lee

Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people -- because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it -- I don't care how good you are.

Brian Williams

What does it tell you that applications for guns since the shooting are up 41 percent in Colorado, and that our cameras found about 50 people in line at one gun shop yesterday outside Denver?

Conan O'Brien

Texas is reportedly going to give college students the right to carry guns on campus. So I guess that next semester, every college student in Texas is getting straight A's.

Conan O'Brien

The top 15 contenders for the Republican nomination own at least 40 guns among them. If we elect a Republican president no one is hopping over the White House fence ever again.

Dwight L. Moody

There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.

Lyn Nofziger

That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

Andy Richter

There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.

Andy Roddick

No, if I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match. If you got the guns, go for it. I got two breadsticks sticking out of my sleeve. I'll stick with sleeves.

Albert Gallatin

The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

Claire Danes

I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained!

Claire Danes

Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.

Clint Eastwood

You know I've had people come up and ask me to sign their guns. Sign my name on gun handles and holsters and stuff. I've done it once or twice for law enforcement officials, but when people do that -- and there have been quite a few of them lately -- I always tell them no. I don't want to do that. I don't want my name on that and I hope you use this gun, whatever its purpose is, I hope it's used wisely.

Clare Short

We all understand that America feels so angry, they want to get somebody, but you can't just have lots of planes and guns and ships and make everybody do your bidding.

Dan Brown

Langdon whispered to Vittoria. 'Ever fire anything other than a tranquilizer gun?' 'Don't you trust me?' 'Trust you? I barely know you.' Vittoria frowned. 'And here I thought we were newly-weds.

David Mamet

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is always his weapon of personal safety in an emergency, and for many it is the primary weapon of offence and defense. Expertness in its use cannot be over emphasized.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment.

Claire McCaskill

If you are passed out drunk or if there is a gun to your head, it is the same crime. It is a crime where there is not consent. It is a felony. And we need to start making sure victims understand that, so they don't do the self blame.

Clive Owen

There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.