Wayne LaPierre Quotes

If I could solve these problems with passing laws in the Congress, I would do so.

None of my Governments seem to know what to do about them

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

If the political will is there, we can solve anything.

The best episodes of 'The West Wing' that dealt with policy and stuff, in my opinion, were the ones where they were in the middle of a crisis, and they were trying to figure out how to solve problems.

When you pass a law you don't solve the problem. You state the problem.

It is axiomatic in politics that the earlier one addresses a problem, the more the alternatives and the easier the solutions.

If you can't legislate, you can't deal with problems.

I'm not going to speculate about legislation that I haven't seen before.

I think that policy matters. I'm a policy guy.

A director must be patient and unflappable. I think I was always pretty relaxed. I don't find shooting as traumatic as some directors do. Some hate it. But you also have to be strong-willed and persistent enough to get what you want.

I realized that so much of our precious time is taken up by obligations that we don't even really need.

Whenever excessive regulation is on the horizon, you can guarantee our kids will be wheeled out as a battering ram against adult opposition.

Where I know my strengths lie, for me, is establishing systems and protocols, finding solutions, and trying to push for results. The Senate is a great institution, but for me, it's not the role that best suits those needs.

I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which.

Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Anything that isn't writing is easy

I pretty much know that directing means that you have to answer about a thousand questions every day and you have to answer them quick.

Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.

Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing a law and voting some money. I think of this as the vending machine concept of social change. Put a coin in the machine and out comes a piece of candy. If there is a social problem, pass a law and out comes a solution.

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

The question I ask myself like almost every day is: ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?' Unless I feel like I’m working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I’m not going to feel good about how I’m spending my time. And that’s what this company is.

But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'