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Banning guns is an idea whose time has come. -- Joe Biden
Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional. -- Rush Limbaugh
Banning someone for wanting to ban others is an inappropriate response. -- Corri Wilson
Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness. -- Jerry Brown
Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe. -- Dianne Feinstein
Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat. -- Vince Vaughn
Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down, -- Sarah Hanson-Young
Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander. -- Ron Paul
I'll be bossy and damn proud! Banning words, please. Try banning the system that produces polices that promote inequity. -- Rosa Clemente
Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight. -- Stephen Chbosky
If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power. -- James Howe
[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being. -- Jay-Z
Banning all Muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do, which is to destroy ISIS. We need a strategy. We need to get the lawyers off the back of the warfighters. -- Jeb Bush
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them. -- Anna Quindlen
Banning the burkini doesn't produce terrorists. But it does make the people who are already alienated, who are already disenfranchised, I many cases, economically disenfranchised in a place like France in many of those neighborhoods, and make them say, ah, ISIS's message is true and real. -- Michael Leiter
Courage is not walking into battle with no fear - you should know this as a soldier. Courage is feeling great fear, but walking forward anyway.Lady Lavender by Lynna Banning -- Lynna Banning
We're not looking at banning all weapons. -- Gary Ackerman
It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media. -- Shah Rukh Khan
Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans. -- Robert Mugabe
I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. -- Mary Cheney
Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches. -- Nicholas Kristof
It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have. -- Richard Dawkins
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature. -- Adrian Cronauer
I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila. -- Hugh Laurie
There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want. -- James Q. Wilson
A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence. -- Marc Racicot
The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it. -- Caitlin Moran
They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed. -- Bill Maher
When Johnson decided to fight for passage of the law John F. Kennedy had put before Congress in June 1963 banning segregation in places of public accommodation, he believed he was taking considerable political risks. -- Robert Dallek
I don't support gay marriage, but I also don't support a constitutional amendment banning it. However, I do support same sex unions that would give gay couples all the rights, privileges and protections of marriage. -- Bob Casey, Jr.
Here's a thought: what if we ban the word 'healthy food' from our culinary vocabulary? I'm not talking about banning foods that are considered healthy. I'm talking about changing the way we think about food overall. -- Marcus Samuelsson
As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always favored counseling. I've always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion. -- Gary Johnson
If I was president, of course I'd want an amendment banning boy bands, but it just wouldn't be right, and I wouldn't do it. Then again... I don't want to paint myself into a corner on this one. Let me think about it. -- Jessi Klein
I find it extremely ironic that Bush says that personal opinion should not be a tool in the interpretation of the Constitution, when he's the one who's lobbying for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. If that doesn't stem from personal opinion, I don't know what does. -- Jessi Klein
For about 30 years, Halloween was taken over by pranksters. By the '30s, pranks were causing cities millions of dollars of damage. They considered banning Halloween in many cities, but instead, parents got together and came up with party ideas for kids, and a lot of them involved dressing up and costuming. -- Lisa Morton
They go on about banning size zero, but I think Hollywood stars are the worst perpetrators. Most models are naturally long and gangly, while a lot of these young girls in Hollywood have gone on extreme diets. Their concave chests and bony arms are terrifying. It's scary to think that normal teenagers are tempted to copy them. -- Twiggy
I have said that I am in favor of personhood as a concept. I am not taking a position on any of the state amendments, and I have said over and over again - and it has been reported over and over again - that I am not in favor of banning any common forms of birth control in Colorado or in the United States. -- Ken Buck
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading. -- Isaac Asimov
Sometimes it's a short step from banning to burning. -- Howard Zinn
I think that banning sanctuary cities should be upheld in court. -- Greg Abbott
Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
I support the President's plan to amend the Constitution, banning same-sex marriage. -- Dick Cheney
The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I didnt know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. -- Mary Cheney
Embarrassingly for Obama, it appeared that his administration had jumped the gun on banning the bullets. -- John R. Lott Jr.
No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns. -- Howard Metzenbaum
For a while, some schools across the country were banning spelling bees. For obvious reasons, of course - steroids -- Craig Ferguson
In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated -- Wallace Mercer
And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that. -- Al Gore
A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages. -- Coretta Scott King
There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want -- James Q. Wilson
If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it! -- J. K. Rowling
A new survey found that 12 percent of parents punish their kids by banning social networking sites. The other 88 percent punish their kids by joining social networking sites. -- Jimmy Fallon
The law needs to be applied to everyone equally and the Home Office has previous in banning hate preachers engaging in rhetoric similar to that of [Donald] Trump. -- Tulip Siddiq
Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government banning gay marriage and so forth. -- John Zerzan
When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters. -- Cal Thomas
I would make a difference by banning unsustainable palm oil in order to save the rainforest and orangutan habitats along with the rest of the three hundred thousand other species that live in the rainforest. -- Katie Cleary
The Supreme Court is expected to rule this week whether banning cross burning by groups like the Klu Klux Klan violates the first amendment. The outcome could affect the entertainment at Trent Lott's Christmas party. -- Tina Fey
I shortly will introduce legislation banning the sale, manufacture or possession of handguns (with exceptions for law enforcement and licensed target clubs)... . It is time to act. We cannot go on like this. Ban them! -- John Chafee

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