Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne McLellan

... we're not interested in confiscating their guns, as long as they are legitimate gun owners, as long as they store them appropriately, transport them appropriately and so on ...

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.

Getting guns off the streets does make communities safer. We can't stand here and say because we don't have the perfect solution, we shouldn't try.

John Adams

Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defense, not for offense...

Donna Brazile

The smoking gun is that we're interviewing somebody who is involved in a cybercrime and not calling him a criminal.

Donald E. Westlake

When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away.

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.

Dr. Dre

If there were no guns, we couldn't talk about it, ... You turn on TV, you see soldiers marching with guns. We only talk about things that's happening.

Dr. Seuss

Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly, Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley!

Donald Rumsfeld

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

Don Henley

Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

Clare Boothe Luce

Guns know no policy except destruction.

Dalai Lama

Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.

Desmond Tutu

We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.

Debbie Harry

I do have fantasies of buying a helicopter and a lot of machine guns, but I don't know if I can do that. I'd like to have a lot of weapons, grenades and things. And I want to have a solar energy machine. And I want to have a sunken garden with a glass roof. I guess that's about it for now. I have a few other wants but I can't remember them.

Andre Breton

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

Andre Breton

The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.

Ann Patchett

Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.

Amanda Vanstone

These gun laws are very much the creation of the Prime Minister.

Andrew Young

If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.

Chuck Palahniuk

With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

Chuck Palahniuk

Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

Chuck Hagel

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

Christopher Walken

I don't even like holding them. Whenever I hold a gun, I want to get it out of my hand as quick as possible.

Christopher Walken

Guns make me very nervous. They're dangerous. I'm more of a pacifist than anyone could imagine.

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.