Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

If I were a betting man, the odds are that Obama's White House and Justice Department will double down on their gun-control agenda by edict.

I'd like to see a comprehensive gun control bill brought to the floor, but if we have to do it in several votes, that's fine, too. But give us the vote. Let us make our case to our colleagues on the floor and have a vote.

During my time in Washington, I have become increasingly frustrated by the power held by the gun lobby.

From Texas to New Hampshire and everywhere in between, we know that support for policies such as expanded background checks continue to be popular in both parties.

There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.

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.

The people of Chicago have made it very clear that they favor sensible restrictions on gun ownership.

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

Politics is about power, and it is about group power.

A powerful lobby [the National Rifle Association] dins into the ears of our citizenry that these gun purchases are constitutional rights protected by the 2nd Amendment.

Congress is in the grasp of the National Rifle Association and the religious right.

If I were writing the Bill of Rights now, there wouldn't be any such thing as the Second Amendment ... This has been one of the greatest pieces of fraud—I repeat the word fraud—on the American people, by special interest groups, that I have seen in my lifetime.

Stop using the word’s “gun control”. All the 2nd Amendment enthusiasts hear is CONTROL. Let’s use “gun violence”, “gun safety” and other terms that are less confrontational.

Obama means to erase the Second Amendment by any means possible.

My impression is the Trump administration is in imminent danger of violating the gunfighter's credo, which is 'Do not pick seven fights if you are carrying a six shooter.'

A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.

No one I hang out with thinks that a random person on the street should be able to buy a machine gun.

I have been pleased to receive petitions from groups that seek a range of new gun control measures and groups and individuals who believe additional laws are unnecessary or unwise.

To every politician who is taking donations from the NRA, shame on you.

My favorite moment of the 2012 election was the debate question where they asked Romney and Obama what they would do to stem gun violence, and Romney's answer was you should marry someone.

I support the Second Amendment. But for God's sake - how can we knowingly pass bills and laws that are in direct opposition to saving kids' lives?

I'm supporting plans in Congress to fully ban bump stock devices and prohibit the sale of high-capacity magazines.

In Connecticut, we have passed some of the strongest anti-gun-violence laws in the nation. We don't restrict anybody's Second Amendment rights.

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

The ban on assault weapons was a good and necessary law that was allowed to lapse through the influence of special interests.