Barack Obama Quotes

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.

The NRA - they are a paper tiger.

Oh, he was probably a member of the National Rifle Association. It was a group that helped criminals get guns so they could shoot citizens. It was a public service.

I tend to agree with my husband, that to continue the conversation about something that is an important topic, particularly now, which is that of gun control, through his narrative, which is actually what's happened, I don't think it was a conscious decision of, "That's what we're going to do," but that's what seems to have happened, and that's not a bad thing.

It is time to pick a side.Either we stand with the gun lobby or we join the president and stand up to them.

I support an assault weapons ban, and I'll tell you why. We already have one in California, so I don't support doing anything above what we do in California.

The NRA grades senators and representatives based on their votes on gun issues - and even on issues that have little-to-nothing to do with guns.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Gun regulation is historically as American as is gun possession.

I virtually never use the term "gun control" because that would make us anti-gun. Everything we touch is unpopular and controversial.

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.

President Obama, he's never going to debate me on guns. His knowledge on that issue wouldn't fill a thimble, and he knows it. I would clean his clock, and he knows it.

The last thing we need is efforts by some politicians and the NRA to arm educators and allow more guns in our schools.

I am for the Second Amendment, but I am for common-sense gun legislation.

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.

I think that there are certain guns that, of course, I don't know who needs a machine gun, personally. But I think rifles and things like that are fine. I think that in the wrong hand is when a gun becomes a problem.

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

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

To a lot of people, the Second Amendment is an extreme position.