Wayne LaPierre Quotes

If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.

Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

Evil walks among us, and God help us if we don't harden our schools and protect our kids.

The whole idea from some of our opponents that armed security makes us less safe is completely ridiculous. If that's true, armed security makes us less safe, let's just go ahead and remove it from everywhere.

If - heaven forbid - a shooter did come into my class, I wouldn't want to have to worry about getting caught in a crossfire.

The Protect America's Schools Act is not the only answer, but it is a positive step forward in preventing tragedies.

With all the foreign aid the United State does... can't we afford to put a police officer in every single school?

We need to look for ways to secure our schools, single-point of entrance.

Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school - and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January.

We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.

It is a sad reality that active shooter drills are a standard way of life for kids as young as pre-school.

Safety has been my top legislative priority. I'm driven by the idea that safety is really a core function of government.

Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.

I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, 'Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?' And it's like, yeah, honey, they do.

My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, it became clear that the FBI's number one priority must be the prevention of another terrorist attack.

Well, what every place needs is a security plan that protects it.

Ensuring the safety and security of our monuments and infrastructure is critical to protecting our communities and the American people.

I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.

Public safety and emergency preparedness is essential.

Security and safety are very important for us.

In life, you don't really know what's coming at you. Like a firefighter, or police officer, or anyone else working in the emergency field, they don't know what's going to come at them. You gotta be ready for anything.

I knew I had a chance to teach the world something that would help more people be safe.

It is not possible to know how to behave in threatening situations before you even end up in such a situation.