A biography for Wayne LaPierrehasn’t been written yet.
“We need a full-court press on personal protection. We need to be able to protect ourselves.”
“History has proven again the truth that President Obama and anti-freedom activists everywhere deny and try to suppress - the truth that firearms in the hands of good people save lives.”
“People have become so weary of all the government and media dishonesty, the all-too-commonplace lying, that most Americans have stopped listening.”
“In all of history, there has always been a time and a place where patriots rise up against the decree of the elites and shout, 'No more... get your hands off my freedom!'”
“Our individual liberty is the very essence of America. It is what makes America unique.”
“If I were a betting man, the odds are that Obama's White House and Justice Department will double down on their gun-control agenda by edict.”
“Not enough people really think about the founding of our country, how it all began and what its really about. They don't even teach it in schools any more.”
“The NRA was run like an old-time club when I took over. We were in the red and getting cut off from our membership.”
“The media try to make rank-and-file Americans feel guilty about buying a gun. The enemies of freedom demonize gun buyers and portray us as social lepers. But we know the truth. We know that responsible gun ownership exemplifies what is good and right about America.”
“Victimize gun owners, then blame the victims. That's the Chicago Way, and it will never change as long as city bosses are pathological in their hatred of our civil rights.”
“You almost have to be of a certain age to understand how hard it was to disseminate the truth before the Internet. After the formation of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action in 1975, we did it, and we did it well.”
“When you're at war you do what it takes to win.”
“We at the NRA embrace and hold dear what makes us uniquely American. Family, responsibility, patriotism, mutual respect, honesty, civic duty.”
“Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, among the world's richest men, believes his personal fortune can erase the liberty of every American who would exercise the right to keep and bear arms. He plans liquidation of our rights a step-at-a-time - spending millions of dollars of his bottomless personal fortune at a time.”
“Our nation's founding fathers carefully crafted a Bill of Rights - an articulation of personal liberties woven into the entire fabric of our free society. When any of those freedoms are threatened anywhere, they must be defended and protected everywhere.”
“Simply put, violent criminals break the law - any law - every day with impunity.”
“I tell gun owners and hunters and sportsmen and Second Amendment supporters and Americans every day that all of these freedoms we have are just words on a piece of parchment paper unless we stand up and defend them every day.”
“From Obama to Michael Bloomberg, Dianne Feinstein, Michael Moore, Rosie O'Donnell and the rest of the media-political elite, the whole time they're attacking your right to own a gun, they're enjoying armed security for themselves.”
“Elites don't care not one whit about school children. If they truly cared, what they would do is protect them.”
“Gun owners are not buying firearms because they anticipate a confrontation with the government. Rather, we anticipate confrontations where the government isn't there - or simply doesn't show up in time.”