NRA in Louisville: Quotes of the forum

LOUISVILLE-- While some comments from speakers at Friday's National Rifle Association Leadership Forum have already been widely reported, a few other gems may have slipped through the cracks.

Here are just of few of the more significant or humorous lines of the day:

• "Does that make us clingers or does that make us Klingons? I don't know, I don't get it." - former Deputy Chief of Staff for George W. Bush, Karl Rove, referencing Senator Barack Obama's (D-Illinois) earlier statement that some rural Americans "cling to guns and religion."

• "I'm not sure I'd put a shell in that thing. It might blow up in my face - like my Presidential race did." - Former Presidential candidate and Governor Mike Huckabee (R-Arkansas), speaking about a favored, yet ancient, .20 gauge shotgun he received as a child.

• "John McCain signed the brief. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama did not. Enough said." - Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), speaking about the Amicus Curae brief filed with the Supreme Court in opposition to Washington, D.C.'s ban on handguns - a ban currently being tested for constitutionality via the case District of Columbia v. Heller.

• "To me, when you are out in the field and protecting your family, it doesn't matter what party you claim" - Congressman Dan Boren (D-Oklahoma), one of two Democrats to address the Friday forum.

• "I think our friend Charlton Heston would agree - You can have my guns when you pry them out of my cold, dead hands" - Boren again, reviving an infamous quote from the late NRA stalwart.

• "Is she running for Vice President? No chance. Based on her comments in Pennsylannia last week, I don't think she'll be satisfied if you gave her Wayne Lapierre's job." - Kentucky's senior Senator, Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville), on Hillary Clinton, referencing pro-gun comments she made while campaigning in Pennsylvannia last month. Lapierre is Executive Vice President of the NRA.

• "It is important that you sign this, because we want to protect every citizen's right to be shot by the Vice President." - Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), on what she told Vice President Dick Cheney to get him to sign the Amicus Curae brief opposing the Washington, D.C. handgun ban.

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