Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.

I think every school needs a protection plan with a either police officer or certified armed security.

When it comes to the issue of background checks, let's be honest - background checks will never be 'universal' - because criminals will never submit to them.

We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The America being designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending... The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school - and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January.

We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.

I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence.