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Arming domestic police forces with paramilitary weaponry will ensure their systematic use even in the absence of a terrorist attack on US soil; they will simply find other, increasingly permissive uses for those weapons. -- Glenn Greenwald
I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza. -- Helen Thomas
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision. -- Barry Commoner
The nation is arming. What are they arming for if it isn't that they are so distrustful of their government? They're afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways. -- Sharron Angle
Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day. -- L. Neil Smith
I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk to the officers themselves or the neighbourhood they're in. I'm not in favour of a blanket arming of the police. -- David Blunkett
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals. -- David Mamet
And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives. -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
I don't believe in strong-arming people. -- Zachary Levi
Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer. -- Athanasius of Alexandria
I'm the leading voice in America for not arming the allies of ISIS. -- Rand Paul
North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens. -- George W. Bush
History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people. -- Bashar al-Assad
[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. -- George W. Bush
I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming. -- Arthur Wimperis
No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. -- James Burgh
We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS where they are. -- Ted Cruz
Look not thou on beauty's charming; Sit thou still when kings are arming; Taste not when the wine-cup glistens; Speak not when the people listens -- Walter Scott
One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class. -- Vladimir Lenin
I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and arming for such a conflict. -- Frank B. Kellogg
Besides re-arming myself with joy, I need to know the holes in my defenses, the places where I'm vulnerable and where the enemy has successfully attacked me before. -- Lynn Austin
We didn't create ISIS - ISIS created themselves, but we will stop them, and one of the ways we stop them is by not funding them, and not arming them. -- Rand Paul
I think that by arming the allies of ISIS, the Islamic rebels against [Bashar] Assad, that we created a safe space or made that space bigger for ISIS to grow. -- Rand Paul
In America, every time we take rebels, whether it's in Iraq or anywhere else, we're arming people. And you know what happens? They end up being worse than the people. -- Donald Trump
Reagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the things that were unpopular (arming the Iranians) were quite legal. -- David Frum
...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The U.S. alleges it wants to democratize [the Middle East] whilst it seeks to reverse election results not legally or through polls, but by force, fostering chaos and supporting, financing and arming the corrupt. -- Khaled Mashal

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