"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"

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Source : "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1995.

James Q. Wilson

#Gun Quotes #Want Quotes #Way Quotes

“correct English is the slang of prigs ...”
“I really liked the design aesthetic of the mid-century modern for furniture and the early '60s stuff for the clothes. But then, personally, I'm a huge fan of 1970s muscle cars. Cell phones is just a laziness thing because it's so much easier to have somebody have a cell phone than have to go to a phone booth. So we're sort of, I guess, cherry-picking the best and easiest from several decades.”

Source : Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.
“A closed mouth catches no flies.”
“Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.”
“What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.”
“The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.”
“To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.”

Source : "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.
“Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.”

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