Assault Quotes · Page 4

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

— Mariska Hargitay

We must permanently reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban and the restrictions on high capacity magazines.

— Kerry Kennedy

A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.

— William J. Clinton

“He threatened Liam with assault, that’s why I didn’t go to the police. I couldn’t put it on my dad.”

— Stephanie John

Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his…

— Leonard Ravenhill

The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.

— Ismail Haniyeh

I don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle.

— Joe Manchin

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

— Glenn Greenwald

It has to come out of the chain of command, because the chain of command has really become impotent. The chain of…

— Paula Coughlin

After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.

— Nancy Gibbs

The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and…

— Rachel Carson

I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind…

— Joe Eszterhas

Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that…

— Norman Cousins

We in Congress must take action to keep assault weapons and high-capacity clips out of the hands of those who are so…

— Gregorio Sablan

On several occasions, we are informed that the professional ideal 'took steps', 'organised assaults', and 'selected social problems'. But this is anthropomorphic…

— David Cannadine

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till…

— Stephen Johnson Field

As Americans, we have a long history with firearms. We also have a government built on compromise, so here is the compromise…

— Nick Symmonds

As I spoke with scientists about the way fat behaves, I couldn't resist drawing an analogy to the realm of narcotics. If…

— Michael Moss

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic…

— Mary McCarthy

All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as…

— Carl Sagan

I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas…

— Margaret Thatcher

“When trust is violated, it's like you're left with an empty piggy bank. Building trust again, she said, is like putting big,…

— Bill Konigsberg

Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be…

— Jimmy Carter

I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?

— Christine Pelosi

If women took up arms to defend their reproductive rights, the GOP would ban assault rifles yesterday.

— Steve Marmel

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

— Vikram Chatwal

There is an all-out assault now on the Christian community in this country.

— Rush Limbaugh

Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.

— Thor Heyerdahl

I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

— Pamela Geller

I really hate alcohol. I hate it because it's linked so closely to sexual assault in our culture.

— Ayelet Waldman

I’ve been accused of ‘raping’ the audience in my films, and I admit to that freely — all movies assault the viewer…

— Michael Haneke

Living in India in 2020, it's almost a daily assault on, you know, the erosion of our freedoms.

— Arjun Mathur

I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army,…

— Wesley Clark

We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.

— George Takei

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

— Mark Steyn

The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.

— Charles Schumer

“Almost everything a person thinks is a lie, and an assault against the natural soul.”

— Bryant McGill

If a girl gets assaulted, it's not because she was drunk. It's because somebody decided to assault her.

— Jon Shenk

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the…

— Mark Udall