Quotes from Ted Nugent

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

My idea of fast food is a mallard.

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.

Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice.

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians--except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.

I didn't invent the middle finger, but I perfected the use of it.

To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

I don't like repeat offenders; I like dead offenders.

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

I think you should ride the line between fatigue and chaos. The chaos keeps the energy level and spontaneity maximized, while fatigue is just over the edge, and you should try to avoid it.

I don't objectify women. I'd like to think that I'm optimizing their hardware.