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

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.

Black as the night.Black as the depths.Black as your heart.Where your hatred's at rest.

I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.

All you can do is all you can do... If all you can do, is still not good enough, then go do something else.

The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.

Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

Sting! I mean, come on - whoe doesn't love Sting? Even if you love Megadeath, you have respect for Sting. If you love Pokemon, you'll find out who Sting is someday.

True success is what you have done compared to what you could have done.

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.