Amendment Quotes · Page 21

So we have the toughest laws, and you have tremendous gun violence.

— Donald Trump

Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves.

— Wayne LaPierre

Gun violence is a problem that this country should be addressing.

— Vivek Murthy

We don't need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray.

— William J. Clinton

If you are too dangerous to get on a plane, you are too dangerous to buy a gun.

— Hillary Clinton

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

— L. Neil Smith

The Newtown massacre created a tipping point on the gun debate in America.

— Mark McKinnon

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

— Janet Reno

I think it [getting a gun] should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a…

— Sam Harris

When you break an agreement in a relationship, you must offer an amendment first, or it is meaningless.

— Marshall Sylver

Congress can prevent future tragedies by requiring a background check for every gun purchase in America.

— Seth Moulton

The ban on assault weapons has decreased gun violence in Baltimore not one iota. That's because few, if any, of the shootings…

— Gregory Kane

I am committed to advancing common sense solutions to address our nation's gun violence epidemic.

— Dean Phillips

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

— Al Gore

Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather but…

— Zell Miller

For any American who is worried about this country, who feels our core values slipping away, who believes something has to be…

— Wayne LaPierre

After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes…

— Hank Williams, Jr

This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wild West... There should not be…

— Rick Pitino

The DISCLOSE Act is a testament to the wisdom of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United. The First Amendment sought to…

— Bradley A. Smith

Those who drafted and ratified the Second Amendment were undoubtedly aware that the right they were establishing carried a risk of misuse,…

— Thomas Hardiman

So while gun owners are always saying that owning guns is about defending freedom, the only freedom gun owners seem interested in…

— Dan Savage

I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether…

— Michael Moore

Just last week, I was successful in passing two bi-partisan amendments through the House of Representatives that aim to address the even…

— Mark Kennedy

Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was…

— Thomas Jefferson

What James Madison and the other men of his generation had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment was that there…

— Sam Ervin

The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a…

— William Rawle

Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally…

— Heinrich Himmler

“On Piers Morgan Tonight, Alan Dershowitz claimed, “[W]hat’s happening is the NRA is buying their data. They’re buying their facts. They’re hiring…

— John R. Lott Jr

The gun control mentality is ruthlessly absurd. It suggests that you pass a law which will bind law-abiding citizens — they won't…

— Alan Keyes

“When, on the contrary, the people is invested with the supreme authority, the perpetual sense of their own miseries impels the rulers…

— Anonymous

“2.​Stop only prohibited people from buying guns. The background check system is a mess. Virtually everyone who fails the check is someone…

— John R. Lott Jr

Gun Don't Kill People Dads With Pretty Daughters Kill People.

— Anonymous

More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer.

— James Langevin

In the state legislature, I supported Second Amendment rights.

— Jason Kander

Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.

— Barack Obama

“This is exactly why babies should not be allowed to dual-wield flintlock pistols.”

— Andrew Hussie

And it's time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban.

— Rahm Emanuel

I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington.

— Rand Paul

I think it's unconstitutional on the 10th Amendment front.

— Mitt Romney