Jeff Cooper Quotes

We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.

Stand your ground means stand your ground. It doesn't mean chase after somebody who's turned their back.

If anyone comes near you, just scream and run.

There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target.

If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

If I'm ever concerned about something, I'll have security deal with it.

I don't reject the concept of preemptive war. I'm a mother of five. I have five grandchildren. And I always say: Think of a lioness. Think of a mother bear. You come anywhere near our cubs, you're dead. And so, in terms of any threat to our country, people have to know we'll be there to preemptively strike. But what the president [Bush] did was, on the basis of no real intelligence for an imminent threat to our country, chose to go into a war for reasons that are still unknown to us.

Please don't kill me!

If any guy threatened her she'd probably suffocate him with her oversized tee.

I carry a weapon. I got a death threat a few years ago and was really scared. But I don't want bodyguards. I am my own security.

You go into this survival instinct mode, when you feel like your life is in jeopardy. I found myself in the bathroom with my taser, which I have 10 of, my panic button and my cell phone. It was the most terrifying experience I've ever had in my life

Sometimes people do get hurt

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

This one’s easy to use. The pointy end goes into their body. (Liza)

My friend taught me this one. You take the heel of your hand, you can shove someone's nose right through their brain. I can't even watch someone blow their nose. If I'm in a fight, I'm not gonna be shoving or poking, I'm gonna be running or begging - that's my two choices, right there.

We will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family from fear and harm.

Never," he spat out, "kick a man who is pointing a gun at you.

Don't get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.

If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you a proper course to pursue, and if that course is to counterattack, carry it out with everything you've got! Be indignant. Be angry. Be aggressive.

I flee what I can't fight. What can only do me harm.

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.

A president should take action to defend the United States against eminent threat. You have to. The president has to do that.

I've been followed home late at night. I've been shot at on the highway.

How to defend yourself against a banana