Wayne LaPierre

“We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere, for anyone.”

“Nobody should be forced to face evil with empty hands.”

“Do you want to know where President Barack Obama is ultimately headed with his gun control edicts? Look no further than his second embrace of the tyranny of Australia's massive gun 'buyback' program.”

“It has always been sensible for good citizens to own and carry firearms for lawful protection against violent criminals who prey on decent people.”

“Knowing who you are and what guns you own was indeed the key to the massive gun theft by government in Australia that saw hundreds of thousands of honest, law-abiding citizens disarmed.”

“For any American who is worried about this country, who feels our core values slipping away, who believes something has to be done to change the direction of our nation before all is lost - the NRA is your refuge. It is your place to stand and fight with Americans just like you, for all that is good and right.”

“Facts tell us that criminalizing private transfers of firearms among family members and friends under a universal background check system would do nothing to prevent 'gun violence,' and importantly, would not have prevented the profound tragedies that gun banners use to promote such a system.”

“We are the millions and millions of Americans who take responsibility for our own safety and protection of our children as a God-given right. We are proud to exercise that right, are not ashamed of it and deserve nothing less than absolute respect and admiration as lawful gun owners.”

“Good and evil. Right and wrong.Those are two fundamental opposing concepts that define the nature of humankind.”

“In truth, the legacy that President Obama's agenda will leave on history is the poisoning of the tree of liberty.”

“After Hurricane Sandy, we saw the hellish world that the gun prohibitionists see as their utopia. Looters ran wild in south Brooklyn. There was no food, water or electricity. And if you wanted to walk several miles to get supplies, you better get back before dark, or you might not get home at all.”

“In truth, we are the only developed country on earth with a constitution that recognizes the God-given right to keep and bear arms, and the human right of individual armed defense of self, family, home and country.”

“The NRA is where you resist, and stand and fight to put America back on track to restore and preserve our individual freedom.”

“When you hear politicians who won't fix the broken system talk about expanding it, don't buy it.”

“The future of the Second Amendment depends on the free exercise of the First Amendment.”

“Through your individual leadership, millions of gun owners across the nation made their voices heard sending an unmistakable message: stop President Barack Obama's destruction of our liberty and restore our Constitution.”

“I think we need national carry reciprocity.”

“People that support more gun laws tend to have the least knowledge of the laws that are already on the books.”

“Holder's Justice Department is not the shield of justice, it has become the shield for Obama's political transgressions.”

“Obama and Holder would make it a felony not to submit to a rigorous grilling for anyone transferring any firearm anywhere in the nation including any now-legal private circumstances.”