John Dingell Quotes

• 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

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• Compromise is an honorable word.

  John Dingell

  Compromise, Honorable

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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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• War is failure of diplomacy.

  John Dingell

  War, Diplomacy

  "CNN Novak, Hunt & Shields". Interview With John Dingell, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2002.

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• My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".

  John Dingell

  Snakes, Daddy, Firsts

  "Power Grid Politics". Fox News, www.cbsnews.com. August 17, 2003.

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• I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

  John Dingell

  Grudge, Polish

  "CNN Novak, Hunt & Shields". Interview With John Dingell, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2002.

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

  John Dingell

  Party, Moving, People

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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.

  John Dingell

  Thinking, Let It Go, Would Be

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• 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

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• 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

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

  John Dingell

  Support, Hussein, Want

  "CNN Novak, Hunt & Shields". Interview with John Dingell, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2002.

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• 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, Years

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

  John Dingell

  Issues, People, Vote

  "CNN Novak, Hunt & Shields". Interview With John Dingell, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2002.

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• I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah or for or against Israel.

  John Dingell

  Israel, Hezbollah, Sides

  "Following the lead of Power Line and The Washington Times, Limbaugh cropped Dingell's statement to suggest he "refuses to condemn" Hezbollah" by Joe Brown, www.mediamatters.org. August 2, 2006.

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• 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

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

  John Dingell

  President, Together

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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

  War, Mistake, Thinking

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• 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

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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

  Country, Energy, Realizing

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• 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

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• The DOE and DOD are among the most notorious offenders of our hazardous waste laws.

  John Dingell

  Law, Doe, Nuclear

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• The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam Hussein in charge of affairs.

  John Dingell

  Mistake, Leaving, Affair

  "CNN Novak, Hunt & Shields". Interview With John Dingell, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2002.

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• To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?

  John Dingell

  War, Winning, Thinking

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