"And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities." -- Bill Clinton, 3/22/94, MTV's "Enough is Enough"
" The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people" --Bill Clinton, during an interview on MTV in 1993
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary citizens that we are unable to think clearly about reality." William J. Clinton, USA Today, March 11, 1993
We also have a law that bans the sale of 19 assault weapons-guns made expressly for killing people. What’s more, not a single hunter in America has lost a weapon or missed a season as a result of either the assault weapons ban or the Brady Bill. -- "Between Hope and History", by Bill Clinton, p. 81 Jan 1, 1996
"I'm not at all sure that even a callous, irresponsible drug dealer with a 6-year-old in the house wouldn't leave a child trigger lock on a gun. -- Bill Clinton, March 9, 2000, Washington Post.
"I don't believe that everybody in America needs to be able to buy a semi-automatic or fully-automatic weapon, built only for the purpose of killing people, in order to protect the right of Americans to hunt and practice marksmanship and to be secure." --Bill Clinton, March 2, 1992, Washington Post.
"I think it's (the Brady Bill) the beginning. It's not the end of the process by any means." --Bill Clinton 8/11/93
"If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees." --Bill Clinton 8/12/93
"[President Clinton]... ordered the Justice Department to begin studying gun licensing, gun registration and collection proposals." --The Washington Times 12/12/93.
(I've checked most of these - they seem legit. I had to delete a few that were incorrectly attributed to Bubba)