Randi Weingarten Quotes

Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge.

I have an A rating from the NRA.

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.

I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.

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

I am all for controlling guns.

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.

My position on guns is the same position I've had for a long, long time. That position is that I don't line up a hundred percent with the NRA. I don't see eye to eye with the NRA on every issue.

I don't believe in gun bans; that's a fallacy that people have, that they think if you believe in gun control you want to ban guns. That's not true.

While New York City cannot prevent other jurisdictions from selling firearms, it has taken a powerful stance against guns by divesting pension funds from gun manufacturers.

You know, there's a great discussion - I think that groups like the NRA have been really, really good at trying to divide us by fears, that the ideas that, well, Democrats want to take everybody's guns away. And that's not true.

We need strong gun laws. How can people even ask a question about it? Gun control is so important.

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

My belief is that guns are too easy to get in America. My belief is that the NRA has bought much of our congress, to the point that guns are actually the only unregulated consumer product in America. Think about that. It's stunning.

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.

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

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

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 time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.

In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all.

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.