“An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight.”
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”
At a Philadelphia fundraiser, as quoted in "Obama: ‘If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun’" http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/06/14/obama-if-they-bring-a-knife-to-the-fight-we-bring-a-gun/, The Wall Street Journal (14 June 2008)
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