35 Quotes by Michael D. Barnes

Spectators who witnessed that concert, ... still recount his fearless attitude, innate stage charisma and striking technique -- balancing on toes, slapping the floor with the sides of his shoes, releasing cascades of musical sounds while powering off the boards with both legs kicking.

This is a tragic capitulation to the special interest gun lobby.

This guy is a natural. He was born to be a great government executive. He makes things happen.

(According to those who drove the slave ship), if we lose 25 to 50 percent of 'cargo,' we could make money.

It is yet another example of how much power a small group could wield behind closed doors.

I had a new idea on the way to this meeting this morning, but that doesn't mean we should put it in the platform.

Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime. [On keeping guns]

If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.