Famous Assault Weapons Quotes

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

I supported the assault weapon ban. ~ Mitt Romney

The ban on assault weapons has decreased gun violence in Baltimore not one iota. That's because few, if any, of the shootings were done with assault weapons. ~ Gregory Kane

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004. ~ Mark Udall

We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade. ~ Michael Nutter

Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts. ~ Mitt Romney

I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army, we have them. ~ Wesley Clark

I think that we should ban so-called junk guns. I think we should ban assault weapons like the weapons used here [in Fort Worth], yes. I think that the kinds of weapons that have no legitimate use for hunting or the kind of weapon that a homeowner would use, I think they should be banned, yes, those kind of weapons. ~ Al Gore

Impeach President Reagan retroactively for agreeing with Obama on the assault weapons ban. ~ John Fugelsang

Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets. ~ Dianne Feinstein

I can understand that if you have sold arms to the ayatollah why you might not be quite as sensitive to the need to get assault weapons off our streets. ~ Chuck Robb

It is extremely important that individuals in the state of California do not own assault weapons. I mean that is just so crystal clear, there is no debate, no discussion. ~ Leland Yee

Assault weapons - just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms - are a new topic. The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons - anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun - can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these weapons. ~ Josh Sugarmann

There is no reason for anybody to have an assault weapon. ~ Joseph J. Lhota

Our supportfor assault weapons ban is very broad ... I think we've got all the police, we have all the mayors virtually - the conference of mayors, mayors against guns. We have medical experts, we have virtually dozens of religious organizations of every creed supporting us. We have just lists and lists. ~ Dianne Feinstein

We would get rid of assault weapons. There would not be an assault weapon in the United States, whether it's for a show or someone having it in a collection. ~ Bernard C. Parks

You'll get my assault weapon when you pry it out of my curious six-year-old's cold dead hands. ~ Anthony Jeselnik

I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon. ~ Henry Rollins

The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing. ~ Alan Keyes

Why can't a democrat get fired up about protecting the environment and enacting gun control legislation just as right wing republicans get fired up about making sure that children have access to assault weapons and banning 'the catcher in the rye' and 'harry potter'? ~ Moby

Nobody with a criminal record would ever be allowed to buy a gun. All assault weapons would be banned, completely. And everybody who still possesses a gun license would receive mandatory education and training by professionals on how to handle a gun. After all, I can't drive my car until I pass a test proving I know how to handle a car. ~ Joycelyn Elders

I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background check, which I want to see strengthened and expanded. I voted to ban certain types of assault weapons which are designed only to kill people. ~ Bernie Sanders

To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We are far past the [point] where registration, licensing, safety training, background checks, or waiting periods will have much effect on firearms violence. ~ Josh Sugarmann

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

ISIL videos, ISIL training videos are telling lone wolves the easiest way to cut by a combat assault weapon in America is at a gun show, because of the flip-flopping political approach of Washington. ~ Hillary Clinton

It is my view that there is no sensible military use for nuclear weapons, whether "strategic" weapons, "tactical" weapons, "theatre" weapons, weapons at sea or weapons in space ... ~ Noel Gayler

I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault. ~ Sylvester Stallone

Waco was supposed to be a way for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the Clinton administration to prove the need for a ban on so-called assault weapons. ~ Steve Stockman

What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the only established defense against nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By threatening the use of nuclear weapons. And we can't get rid of nuclear weapons, because of nuclear weapons. The intransigence, it seems, is a function of the weapons themselves. ~ Martin Amis

If Saddam's regime and survival are threatened [by invasion], he will have nothing to lose, and may use everything at his disposal ... If weapons of mass destruction land on Israeli soil, killing innocent civilians, the experts I have consulted believe Israel will retaliate, and possibly with nuclear weapons ... Nor can we rule out the possibility that Saddam would assault American forces with chemical or biological weapons. ~ Edward Kennedy

When abstinence curricula contain information about sexual abuse or assault (though they often don't), the message is similar: The onus of preventing sexual assault is on girls, not on men. ~ Jessica Valenti

I don't want to be famous for being famous. ~ Kelli O'Hara

The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles. ~ Jackson Katz

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception. ~ Van Morrison

Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that's who they are and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York ... ~ Andrew Cuomo

Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States. ~ Joe Lieberman

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

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables. ~ Catharine A. MacKinnon

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand. ~ Mark Twain

Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women. ~ Terry Gross

Innovation comes only from an assault on the unknown. ~ Sydney Brenner

The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous. ~ Bo Burnham

The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real. ~ Tony Blair

Even though we know sexual assault is still dramatically underreported, I think women are much more empowered today than they used to be. ~ Claire McCaskill

Standing behind predators makes prey of us all. ~ DaShanne Stokes

Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first. ~ Don DeLillo

If we do our deficit spending on weapons, at least we get weapons. Then if we need weapons, we have them. If we don't need them, no harm is done. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

There are a lot of weapons that we've developed which we've pulled back from - biological weapons, chemical weapons, etc. This may be the case with armed autonomous robotics, where we ultimately pull back from them. ~ Peter Singer

Nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault. ~ Ellen Glasgow

Tropical trees had been planted throughout the room, along with bright flowering plants that were busy committing the olfactory floral equivalent of aggravated assault. ~ Jim Butcher

Her clothes still smoked from the wizard's assault. But to him, she always smelled of flowers. ~ Cinda Williams Chima

Do the laws against sexual assault not apply to strippers? To girlfriends? ~ Patty Blount

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. ~ Peter Carey

Where the King's touch closed me, shut me down, Wren's opens me up. ~ Natasha Ngan

Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous. ~ Dallas Clayton

I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame. ~ Johnathon Schaech

Unfortunately, there's no surefire way to prevent sexual assault. ~ Jennifer Marsh

Countries are making nuclear weapons like there is no tomorrow. ~ Emo Philips

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. ~ Barry Commoner

If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't. ~ Trey Parker

I'm anti-making new laws. I feel like assault is already against the law. ~ Mary Katharine Ham

Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you."
"I doubt it. ~ Madeline Miller

This generation must know that the total truthfulness of the bible is under continual assault ... ~ Albert Mohler

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous. ~ Noomi Rapace

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think. ~ Dolph Lundgren

Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war."
"The plant war," Percy said. "You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles? ~ Rick Riordan

In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear. ~ Nikita Khrushchev

Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons. ~ Herman Kahn

We know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons. ~ Dick Cheney

No, I would not say that assault with a baseball bat constitutes "justice being done. ~ Garth Ennis

Assault survivors respond differently. There's no right or wrong way to react after being sexually abused. The assault can be so overwhelming that we may respond in three ways - fight, flee, or freeze. ~ Dana Arcuri

The welfare state is an assault on families. ~ Larry Elder

There is this power that comes with being famous. ~ Rod Stewart

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. ~ Voltaire

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons. ~ Hans Blix

It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country. ~ Kim Young-sam

Simon Crean has painstakingly built a platform for a potentially devastating assault on Howard's fitness for office. ~ Margo Kingston

Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented. ~ Martin Rees

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent. ~ Rachel Sklar

Almost everything a person thinks is a lie, and an assault against the natural soul. ~ Bryant McGill

Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme. ~ Vladimir Putin

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent. ~ Kat Dennings

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people. ~ Charlie Kaufman

We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past. ~ Michael Douglas

I LOVE IT when gods offer to pay for a dinner that's already free. Almost as much as I love assault squads that show up after the assault. ~ Rick Riordan

Everybody want famous, like me to be a famous director. ~ Andrew Lau

My show is a sensory assault ... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long. ~ Kesha

We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. ~ Tony Blair

If you start getting instability in large powers with nuclear weapons, that's not a good day. ~ David Titley

We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see! ~ Edward Young

When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behind the effort. But then the proposals ran into a wall. ~ Robert Dallek

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. ~ Tom Felton

Because I make films about eating disorders and sexual assault, people always come up to me and are like, "Are you okay?" like I'm a broken-down shell of a woman. ~ Jessie Kahnweiler

Domestic violence and sexual assault go hand in hand. ~ Georgia Taylor

Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction. ~ Robert M. Gates

It was never about winning medals or being famous. ~ Nancy Kerrigan

I answer her with my silence, understanding the full power of it for the first time. Words are weapons. Weapons are powerful. So are unsaid words. So are unused weapons. ~ Emily Murdoch

Iran - the world's leading sponsor of terrorism - is close to having nuclear weapons. ~ Newt Gingrich

A jacketless Murdoch resumes his quiz, brushing off the assault as 'an overexcited autograph-hunter wanting to have his shaving foam signed. ~ Andy Zaltzman

I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons. ~ Donald Rumsfeld