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.

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].

I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

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.

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.

Nothing eases suffering like human touch.

What do you want from me? Revenge? Sorry—we're all out of revenge today!

I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.

When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story not thinking about who wrote it.

I'm just trying to be truthful and collaborate with people who have interesting things to say.

Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.

I loved doing Harry Potter. I had a great time on that. And I think it's good to have a mix. I think you're learning all the time.

I really love clothes, but I think I have a style of my own which is quite eclectic.

Look for companies that do not have a lot of debt.

In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.