Some of my colleagues argue that by further curtailing our Second Amendment rights, they can enhance public safety. Fine, the burden of proof is on them.

Due process should matter.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states – no more, no less.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect – if you’re a moderate on abortion, if you’re a moderate on gun control, or if you’re a moderate in your religious faith – it doesn’t evolve into a crusade where you’re either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

A right delayed is a right denied.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Our rights are not absolute. Our rights can be curtailed in the interest of public safety.

We also cannot allow Wall Street banks to rewrite the Second Amendment just because they’re too big to fail.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

The NICS database has holes big enough to drive a Mack truck through.

What we all want is public safety. We don’t want rhetoric that’s framed through ideology.

Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

I’m opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.

Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don’t matter. They ask police to scoop up the bad guys only for the courts to immediately release them. They turn us into a bad joke.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

The Second Amendment is just as important as all the other Amendments.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Most Americans think there’s already universal background checks. They don’t understand why there wouldn’t be a background check to purchase a weapon.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

Beto’s copy of the Bill of Rights goes from one to three. Mine includes the Second Amendment. But there are a whole host of people here in Washington… they would be happy to confiscate America’s guns. And if you don’t believe that, then you probably also still believe in Bigfoot.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

I’m prepared to say that law enforcement should be allowed to seize the guns of those who are suspected to be involved in domestic terrorism.

Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.