To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?

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.

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.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

When I want a peerage I shall buy one like an honest man.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

One planet, one experiment.

Superstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will mean a particular thing is coming. Oh yes it does.

I don't crave Hollywood.

Remember, machines don't forgive.

There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

The bit I love is I really love acting, really, and the circus of being a celebrity is something I'm sort of not interested in. I find it strange.

I only included things that everybody likes, like violence, flowers, children, women, friendship and death.