Background Check Quotes

#1. Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.

Trey Gowdy

#2. We should make it as easy as possible to be able to get a legal work visa - not citizenship, not a green card. Just a work visa, with a background check and a Social Security card so that applicable taxes would get paid.

Gary Johnson

#3. I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background check, which I want to see strengthened and expanded. I voted to ban certain types of assault weapons which are designed only to kill people.

Bernie Sanders

#4. Did you have me checked out?"
"Background check in three different countries." ...
"Find anything you didn't like?"
I shrug. "You married my first love, I already didn't like you.

Tarryn Fisher

#5. Then they show up at the door and the reality is that they are 5-foot-8, 240 pounds and have not run a mile in years. A background check is not going to help you with that.

Charlene Li

#6. Like it or not the American people support the term 'background check,' they support the concept of it even though they know it won't work to keep guns out of the hands of criminals they figure 'well if criminals aren't supposed to have guns what's the big deal about a background check,'

Alan Gottlieb

#7. You can't really escape the fact that more reasonable gun regulations and procedures need to be in place, a strengthening and tightening of the national background check system. I don't know why any civilian would ever be able to purchase an assault weapon or the parts that go with it.

Michael Nutter

#8. Every gun sold should require a background check, period.

Gary Ackerman

#9. Most Americans think there's already universal background checks. They don't understand why there wouldn't be a background check to purchase a weapon.

Joe Biden

#10. Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.

Martin Heinrich

#11. There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.

Michael D. Barnes

#12. Most Americans believe that with freedom comes responsibility - and that one measure of responsible gun ownership is a background check. There must be an app for that.

Christine Pelosi

#13. People are never who you think they are, that it was necessary to get a complete background check on a person before you made any promises.

Jodi Picoult

#14. Occasionally the three days will lapse without the FBI completing its background check. When that happens, a buyer, who has waited the three days, can purchase and pick up a gun without the completed background check. That's what

Antaeus

#15. Doing a background check is still a very manual process, because the government agencies that create the records are largely paper-based systems. I'm not going to deny that there are errors, because in any system that involves human beings or technology, there are going to be errors.

James Lee

#16. Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.

Joe Biden

#17. Ninety percent of people support background checks. Which means even people who can't pass a background check support background checks.

Bill Maher

#18. Hey, Dad, if I needed to check someone's background, would you be able to do that for me?"
"That's a little unethical, Liv." John smoothed his mustache. "Is this about a boy?"
Livia cringed. "Yeah, it is."
"Then absolutely. I'd be happy to.

Debra Anastasia

#19. Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.

William Ernest Hocking

#20. I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.

Jascha Heifetz

#21. Sure there is a sexy attitude, and when they say, 'Give me a sexy look with your eyes,' you give it to them. It doesn't have to relate to the product. People are just drawn to it.

Lisanne Falk

#22. I have the mind to do so many fields, careers, jobs, and hobbies; but I have the heart to do few fields of work, careers, jobs, and hobbies

Temitope Owosela

#23. A strange breeze rustled through the clearing, temporarily overpowering the stink of trash and murk. It brought the smell of berries and wildflowers and clean rainwater, things that might've once been in these woods. Suddenly I was nostalgic for something I'd never knew.

Rick Riordan

#24. There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.

Bill O'Reilly

#25. If we are going to be serious about enforcing the law, we have to have a background record check system to make sure that people don't get weapons who shouldn't.

Tim Kaine

#26. Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, Jesus didn't do it the world's way. He came in and offended the world. He came in and did everything the wrong way.

Eric Ludy

#27. I don't care what party you belong to or what your background is. If you believe we are headed in the wrong direction, and believe there needs to be a check and balance on the President and Congress, then join my campaign.

Timothy Griffin

#28. There were definitely Nazis who saw the error of their ways.

Taika Waititi

#29. More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

Edward Sapir

#30. If you have millions and millions of dollars, you're living in a totally different world. You don't feel it anymore and you've got to feel it.

Robert Greene