Barack Obama Quotes

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

We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts. I support them. I won't chip away at them. I believe they help protect us and provide for our safety. I'm sure my positions won't make me the hero of the NRA.

I think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control.

The National Rifle Association is always arguing that the Second Amendment determines the right to bear arms. But I think it really is the people's right to bear arms in a militia. The NRA thinks it protects their right to have Teflon-coated bullets. But that's not the original understanding.

As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.

If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.

The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an 'epidemic of gun violence.'

I think that it's very, very hard for the NRA to continue to defend the position that people who are on the terrorist watch list should be allowed to buy firearms in this country. That's their position. I don't know how they stand by it.

I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.

The NRA - they are a paper tiger.

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'm the original co-sponsor of an assault weapons ban.

We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts. I support them. I won't chip away at them. I believe they help protect us and provide for our safety.

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.

It's clear to me that the NRA isn't going to stop trying to meddle in making this a safer state.

It is the right to bear arms which is the problem. I think if the Founding Fathers knew what was happening they would be turning in their graves with embarrassment at how that law has been interpreted.

There's no way you are going to get rid of the Second Amendment, there's no way you're going to get rid of the First Amendment, and people have to understand how important this is. But I think when they see more and more killings, we have to figure out, of course what we are going to do about it. And I don't think the criminal justice system has an answer.

We have other legislation that all of you are aware that I have been so active on, with my colleagues here, and that is to shut down the gun shows.

I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background check, which I want to see strengthened and expanded. I voted to ban certain types of assault weapons which are designed only to kill people.

There's a reason why the NRA's not here. They're just down the street. And since this is the main reason they exist, you'd think that they'd be prepared to have a debate with a president.

I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.

I kind of think we have too many guns in this country.