A Quote by Wayne LaPierre

The National Rifle Association - all that we believe in and fight for - has become a metaphor for the core American liberty we all want preserved.

Wayne LaPierre

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Wayne LaPierre
American - Activist
Born: November 8, 1949

I've become a representative of the American Diabetes Association, and then I just became national spokesman for the American Heart Association for a campaign called The Heart of Diabetes, which brings the awareness of cardio-vascular disease to diabetics.

Stephen Furst

The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.

Campbell Brown

I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.

Howard Dean

It's just unbelievable to me that the National Rifle Association has so much power.

Rosalynn Carter

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

Harvey Weinstein

If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.

Gavin Newsom

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

Gail Collins

In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.

Tina Fey

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

George Clooney

Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies.

Timothy Noah

Oh, he was probably a member of the National Rifle Association. It was a group that helped criminals get guns so they could shoot citizens. It was a public service.

Woody Allen

The National Multifamily Housing Council, a trade association of apartment owners, managers, developers and lenders, has come to the defense of the interest deduction and other provisions favorable to the real estate industry, describing them as 'core principles' and promising a fight.

James B. Stewart

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.