Bases Quote by Daniel D. Polsby

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying…

— Noam Chomsky

There is considerable merit to the notion of treating gun violence as a public health matter.

— Peter Bergen

The idea now that we're going to fight terrorism through gun control I think is just utterly fatuous.

— Chuck Todd

Modern terrorism is too destructive to be tolerated, much less supported.

— Richard N. Haass

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

— Edward Kennedy

There is no one policy that can end gun violence. But a ban on the sale of assault weapons to the general public is…

— Martin Luther King III

If one's cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive other than…

— Dalai Lama

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

— Anonymous

Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

— William O. Douglas

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.

— Henry A. Kissinger

You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.

— Jerry Vlasak

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst.…

— Anonymous