John Dingell famous quotes

04-15-2025

The harsh fact of the matter is when you're passing legislation that will cover 300 million American people in different ways, it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.
-- John Dingell

#Taken #Long #People
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

#Loss #Gun #Hymns
The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are.
-- John Dingell

#Party #Moving #People
The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there.
-- John Dingell

#Mistake #Leaving #Affair
To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?
-- John Dingell

#War #Winning #Thinking
I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.
-- John Dingell

#Grudge #Polish
War is failure of diplomacy.
-- John Dingell

#War #Diplomacy
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.
-- John Dingell

#Thinking #Let It Go #Would Be
The Democratic Party is a house of many mansions. It is a body which is extremely important in representing all kinds of people in all parts of the country who have very broad and very different views.
-- John Dingell

#Country #Party #Views
The DOE and DOD are among the most notorious offenders of our hazardous waste laws.
-- John Dingell

#Law #Doe #Nuclear
There is a tendency of the American people to give those who are elected an opportunity to carry out their policies and programs.
-- John Dingell

#Opportunity #People #Giving
My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".
-- John Dingell

#Snakes #Daddy #Firsts
I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah, or for or against Israel.
-- John Dingell

#Israel #Hezbollah #Sides
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.
-- John Dingell

#Book #Environmental #Library
The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.
-- John Dingell

#Aggravation #Congress #Entity
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.
-- John Dingell

#Country #Gun #Criminals
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.
-- John Dingell

#War #Thinking #House
If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].
-- John Dingell

#Gun #Alcohol #Today
Nobody in this country realizes that cap and trade is a tax, and it's a great big one.
-- John Dingell

#Country #Energy #Realizing
I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.
-- John Dingell

#Support #Hussein #Want
Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.
-- John Dingell

#Issues #People #Vote
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.
-- John Dingell

#Taken #Thinking #May
I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together.
-- John Dingell

#President #Together
I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare.
-- John Dingell

#Real #Thinking #Effort
I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.
-- John Dingell

#War #Mistake #Thinking
Compromise is an honorable word.
-- John Dingell

#Compromise #Honorable
If were going to change the laws, lets 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

#Rights #Law #Second Amendment

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