You can't get around the image of people shooting at people toprotect their stores and it working. This is damaging to the [guncontrol] movement.

Americans are ready to hate somebody -- and it's going to be the gun industry.

The NRA is right...handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns.

Although the District of Columbiahas had a ban on handgun sale and possession since 1976, Washingtonresidents are held hostage by the lax gun laws of surroundingjurisdictions.

Handguns are a public-health problem.

First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.

The people of the future will say, 'meat-eaters!' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor, I have more education than most white people."

Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game.

In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals.

I'd like to be remembered as a good person, that gave as much as she could with what she had to give.

Presidents in the modern era who've had significant assets have usually put those into a blind trust with some kind of independent manager.

It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become.

Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.

I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me.