John Dingell Quotes

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John Dingell

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 8, 1926

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

John Dingell

If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.

John Dingell

The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are.

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Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax - and it's a great big one.

John Dingell

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

John Dingell

This is the worst administration since Caligula.

John Dingell

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

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I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

John Dingell

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.

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I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

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I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things.

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I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together.

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I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare.

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I'll look and pick the best, and the one who can do the best job for the party.

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I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

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I'm very close to suggesting that Mr. Pitt has now served as long as he can usefully do so. He seems to take his foot out of his mouth only for purposes of changing feet.

John Dingell

If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.

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If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

John Dingell

If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.

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Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman.

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