Ben Affleck Quotes

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

I still remember March 31, 1981, when a deeply disturbed John Hinckley Jr. took aim at President Ronald Reagan and fired shots that hospitalized the Commander-in-Chief and two others, and left his Press Secretary James Brady paralyzed for life.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

George Minot [a Concord neighbor] thinks that it is of no use balloting, for it will not stay, but what you do with the gun will stay so.

The Ballot or the Bullet

The National Rifle Association has an extensive enemies list, and I am, frankly, insulted that I am not on it.

The first time I began to really think about politics was in fifth grade, during President Reagan's first term.

Politics for me started in violence.

My father believed in armed struggle.

The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.

Why would twenty-six-year-old "teenagers" care about political ramifications if their backs are not up against the wall? But if their backs are against the wall they may be plucked to fight in Iraq, and all of sudden they become politicized real quick.

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.

President Obama and his family are spending the holidays in Hawaii, and while they're gone, they got a fence jumper to house sit. Tomorrow, he will be in Hawaii playing golf with Raul Castro and the Pope.

That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War.

I'm not an anarchist. I'm not saying, "Burn it to the ground."

Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century.

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

I don't want a job in the administration; I think I'm more effective carping from the sidelines.

If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

I do believe that if millions of people do stand up and fight back, we can stop Donald Trump from doing some really awful things.