Gun Control

🇺🇸Sylvester Stallone

Entertainment

b. 1946

"The films are realistic fantasies. Bullets are easy. You can buy them. Emotions are not. They're priceless."

🇺🇸Eric Swalwell

Politics

b. 1980

"And it would be a short war my friend. The government has nukes. Too many of them. But they’re legit. I’m sure if we talked we could find common ground to protect our families and communities."

"Somehow they managed to make the N.R.A. the victims of the Newtown shootings. I think the average American would be shocked by their language."

🇺🇸Tom Diaz

Literature

"If you wanted to create a system that is basically legal but designed to facilitate gun trafficking, you couldn't have a better system than you have here."

🇺🇸Barbara Boxer

Politics

b. 1940

"There's so much revenue that comes in from a cap-and-trade system that you can really go to a person in a congressional district and get enough votes there by saying, ‘What do you need? What do you want?’"

🇺🇸Ted Kennedy

Politics

1932–2009

"I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time."

🇺🇸Michael Bloomberg

Politics

b. 1942

"Nobody’s going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it."

🇺🇸Angus King

Politics

b. 1944

"If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me."

🇺🇸Jon Corzine

Politics

b. 1947

"the quintessential limousine liberal democrat, Jon Corzine."

🇺🇸Michael Moore

Literature

b. 1954

"Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English"

🇺🇸Peter T. King

Literature

b. 1944

"Ann Coulter has become a legend in her own mind."

🇺🇸Rosie O'Donnell

Entertainment

b. 1962

"You know, you can imagine in China it's like: "Ching chong, ching chong chong, Danny DeVito, ching chong chong chong, drunk, 'The View,' ching chong."

🇺🇸Rahm Emanuel

Politics

b. 1959

"is a tough holiday for Rahm Emanuel because he's not used to saying the word "day" after "mother."

🇺🇸Julianne Moore

Entertainment

b. 1960

"Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to."

🇺🇸Andrew Cuomo

Politics

b. 1957

"We’re the ones who are hit now. That’s today, but tomorrow it’s going to somewhere else, whether it’s Detroit, whether it’s New Orleans. It will work it’s way across the country"

🇺🇸Carl Rowan

Journalism

1925–2000

"We must reverse this psychology . We can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail- period!"

🇺🇸Carl Levin

Politics

1934–2021

"The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he is in power."

🇺🇸Dianne Feinstein

Politics

1933–2023

"As president of the Board of Supervisors, it's my duty to make this announcement. Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed. The suspect is Supervisor Dan White."