We would like to see, in the future, what we will probably call needs-based licensing of all weapons. ...Where it would make it much more difficult for anybody to be able to purchase handguns.

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.

I've thought Cheney was scary for a long time. Now I know I was right to be nervous.

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

There is no personal right to be armed for private purposes unrelated to the service in a well regulated militia.

We must get rid of all the guns.

To me, the only reason for guns in civilian hands is for sporting purposes.

Halfway measures are not enough.

It [the Brady Bill] is not a panacea. It's not going to stop crimes of passion or drug-related crime.

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.

It’s your life

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song!

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

Like a fly bouncing uselessly off a closed window, I'm caught at a moment when the effort of finding new ways to perceive the world feels just out of reach for me.

Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

World peace is one project that we have to do together.