Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Ohio for yielding. Mr. Speaker, the previous assault weapons ban that was referenced by our Speaker, I just want to make sure our record is actually correct. The FBI that kept the data had to admit that, as sympathetic as they were to an assault weapons ban, actually, it doesn't appear to have really made any difference. If we want to talk about crime since then, we can talk about the big cities that have come under the control of Democratic authority, who have pushed for things like no bond. John Adams had it exactly right. This Constitution is intended for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the governing of any other. So, we are either going to have to get rid of all of our constitutional rights--we can't even allow freedom of an assembly or speech, much less the Second Amendment, if we are not going to teach moral right and wrong. What are we finding? We are finding in our schools, of course, that they are not teaching the Ten Commandments. Instead, they are teaching to envy. Look around, covet, see who has something more than you, and you should envy and covet. Just keep in mind, under the big city laws now, if you get violent, we will give you no bond. We will let you right back out. Do you want to know what would do more right now than banning AR-15s? It would be to ban Democrat thinking in the big cities that is allowing the crime rates to just explode. We have always had guns in America.…”