Mikhail Kalashnikov Quotes

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.

Whatever the final outcome in Iraq, our men and women in uniform should stand tall with pride for a job well done. It was our political leaders - of both parties and both presidencies - who failed us.

People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale.

Advances in weaponry go much faster than arms control.

We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

The simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.

The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country.

When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed.' So this has been my lifetime motto – I have been creating weapons to defend the borders of my fatherland, to be simple and reliable.

Countless Americans who have died in recent years would be alive today if not for the open border policies of this administration and the administration that causes this horrible, horrible thought process, called Hillary Clinton.

We have no country if we have no border.

Sovereign countries have the right, and I would argue the responsibility of securing their borders and controlling who comes and goes in their country. All sovereign countries have that right. We have not exercised that right.

We as a country have something to learn from Israel, especially in the areas of security and defense, and we will of course be doing that.

Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.

When I think about Trump and the GOP, the blood really is on their hands.

National security begins with border security. Foreign terrorists will not be able to strike America if they cannot get into our country.

Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.

If you don't have borders, we don't have a country.

The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.

America spends billions of dollars protecting the borders of other countries around the world. It's high time we start protecting our own.

We've undertaken the most substantial border security measures in a generation to keep our nation and our tax dollars safe and are now in the process of beginning to build a promised wall on the southern border.

These are matters of life and death for our country and its people, and we deserve answers from Hillary Clinton.

I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of our border.

Where people coming into our country who are going to cause you and our law enforcement tremendous problems and therefore our society in the future. Because we have politicians that should be ashamed of themselves.

No opposition politician has ever taken responsibility for his or her election failures.

I feel that the whole Western World will benefit by the resurrection of the neutron bomb project.