Assault Quotes

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(On filming the Iraqi war film Stop-Loss (2008) in Morocco): You felt like a monster. We were there in full gear, with these assault rifles, on what`s akin to their Christmas. We were barging into peoples` actual homes to shoot those scenes. I felt incredibly uncomfortable and ashamed at the time.

- Ryan Phillippe

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

- Bianca Jagger

(about Assault on Dome 4 (1996) (TV) and Moontrap (1989)): The movies that are the easiest to make are the hardest to watch.

- Bruce Campbell

I collect guns and shoot them regularly. It`s all purely recreational shooting, I believe in the right to bear arms. I`m beside myself on the banning of the semi- automatic assault rifle. Guns don`t kill people, people do. I don`t carry a gun, but I respect them. I always take a gun on location because you never know. (1989)

- Charlie Sheen

The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day (2001) and Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that `I love your band Sugar Ray`.

- Ethan Hawke

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west`s stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art`s assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

- Camille Paglia

In Europe, kids learn at least four languages before they`re out of high school. But our education system is so underfunded, they go to school to buy heroin and an AK (-47 assault rifle).

- Eddie Griffin

I thought it was just a fight, but when (Nordstrom and Hill) kept jumping up and down on his leg after he was down, I had to charge them with assault.

- Chris Hanson

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

- David Horowitz

I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.

- Joe Eszterhas

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.

- Angela Davis

I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

- Jack Tatum

His arrest is karma. It`s really sad when people have to put everybody else down to make themselves look good. The guy`s digging himself a grave, and soon he`s not gonna have any friends. - Chris Kirkpatrick, on rapper Eminem, who slams N`Sync on his single "The Real Slim Shady" and was arrested for gun possession and assault.

- Chris Kirkpatrick

The allegations were that he would use some sort of either nitrous oxide or gas and the victim was made so that she '¦ was unaware or unconscious '¦ and then '¦ he would sexually assault her while she was in the chair there.

- Mark Clark

The gun lobby`s leaders said today in Springfield that banning assault weapons would injure Illinois economically to the tune of $150 million and cost the state 750 jobs. Are Illinois residents really buying $150 million a year worth of assault weapons? If so, I urge the Legislature to move as quickly as possible on this proposal, because we have a bigger problem than we realized.

- Jennifer Bishop

Zero tolerance is exactly what we practise and a three-match ban on top of an automatic one-game suspension is a clear sign that this kind of behaviour is not tolerated. That`s why we introduced a five-match guideline for physical assault of an official, but we did not consider this to be in that category.

- David Taylor

Mr. Matthew thankfully has been excluded as a suspect, ... He has been conclusively shown not to have any involvement whatsoever in the sexual assault.

- David Chapman

One is that if women`s sexuality in Africa wasn`t under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren`t subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn`t have a pandemic.

- Stephen Lewis

If someone said they were going to beat you up in a non-serious manner, it wouldn`t be assault, ... On the other hand, if they said it, and you were in fear of them actually doing it, then that would be.

- Arthur Mitchell

All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.

- Paul von Hindenburg

It is my position that the incident that occurred on July 23, 2003, was a matter of the utmost seriousness, that it was a vicious assault that was entirely consistent with homicidal intent, and that such intent could be and should be proven against both Wayne and Cynthia Jensen,

- Scott Roberts

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

- Adam Kesler

The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.

- Albert Alschuler

The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.

- Altaf Ladak

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by-pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.

- Amanda Glazebrook

I am uncertain if race was a factor in Mr. Dilks` assault on me in August and his subsequent threats, but I can assure you that I feel my safety has been severely threatened.

- Andy DiSabato

You don`t lead by hitting people over the head-that`s assault, not leadership.

- Andy Gates

Well, we found a bunch of abandoned buildings and we are actually going to go ahead and try to retrieve some of these Ak-47s assault rifles that they have been using to shoot at helicopters and some of the people trying to get back into the city to get it back up and running.

- Ant West

They`re obviously a concern because generally when they are used, they are used in the commission of some very serious charges, usually sexually assault.

- Anthony Burton

In every charge, in every count, she was an active participant in the sexual assault of these children. Even after her husband was arrested (on domestic violence charges), she never came forward and said anything about the sexual assaults by her husband.

- Anthony Register

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by-pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.

- Mary Kay Blakely