Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

You don't go on "probably" when love and guns are in hand.

Charles Bukowski

LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am building a machine gun in my closet now to take out as many of them as I can before they get me.

Dennis Hastert

We support common-sense legislation that keeps guns out of the hands of unsupervised children,

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.

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.

Jeff Lemire

I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness.

Robert Logan

I think that it's jumping the gun a little bit,

(It) confirms that the gun was used on Melissa in defendants' home.

Sylvester Croom

I thought we got better every day defensively. And we made improvement offensively. We had some big guns out most of the spring.

Dave Mustaine

When people in Washington say they're going to take away my guns, they better bring theirs if they're going to take mine.

Pete Carroll

We need to be challenged, ... and we need to be under the gun to respond.

Bill Cosby

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.

Bill Cosby

We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.

C. S. Lewis

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

C. S. Lewis

I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.

Bill Burr

I've had a great time on the road, I would say shooting guns with a silencer in Jacksonville, Fla.

Bill Burr

Pitbulls are like a gun you can pet.

Bill Hicks

There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue--those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS--but they remain strangely silent...

Bill Hicks

People are bringing shotguns to UFO sightings in Fife, Alabama. I asked a guy, "Why do you bring a gun to a UFO sighting?" Guy said, "Way-ul, we didn' wanna be ab-duc-ted." If I lived in Fife, Alabama, I would be on my hands and knees every night praying for abduction.

Bertrand Russell

Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.

I think putting $500 million out there with the needs that we now have is like taking a switch to a gun fight.

Richard Gephardt

Shutting down the gun loophole will not solve all of the problem, but it is at least something we can do