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What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.

While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes.

This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.

The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.

I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.

You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.