If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.

If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

War is failure of diplomacy.

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman.

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful.

I was somewhere between angry and turned-on.

Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

Manifest plainness Embrace simplicity Reduce selfishness Have few desires.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

My hips don't lie and I don't lie either!

I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.

When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did-but it was Mrs. Koufax's.