Ban Quotes
178 quotes by 163 authors
-
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy…
— Judy Biggert
-
But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and the like. There will be…
— Julie Bishop
-
Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening…
— John Boehner
-
House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban…
— John Boehner
-
I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their…
— Sean Penn
-
I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish…
— Hugh Downs
-
Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real justification is not…
— Charles Krauthammer
-
We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are currently owned, and…
— Major Owens
-
If a bill to ban handguns came to the house floor, I would vote for it.
— Pete Stark
-
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
-
You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in…
— Elizabeth Bibesco
-
With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could be in favour…
— Kenneth Clarke
-
People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which is still reeling…
— Ann Winterton
-
I have a letter from a police inspector, retired after some 30 years in rural Derbyshire, alerting me to the potential impact of a total…
— Hazel Byford, Baroness Byford
-
The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless…
— Barack Obama
-
This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of…
— Charles Orville Whitley
-
Impeach President Reagan retroactively for agreeing with Obama on the assault weapons ban.
— John Fugelsang
-
If you ban them in the future, the number of these high-capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have…
— Diana DeGette
-
We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.
— Rahm Emanuel
-
If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... 'Mr.…
— Dianne Feinstein
Who Wrote These Ban Quotes
163 authors contributed a total of 178 Ban Quotes, led by these top contributors: