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John Dingell
American
Politician
About the author
I'll look and pick the best, and the one who can do the best job for the party.
John Dingell,
American
Politician
#Job
#Party
The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are.
John Dingell,
American
Politician
#People
#American
#Needs
#Party
Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.
John Dingell,
American
Politician
#People
#Policy
#American
#Question
#Vote
I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.
John Dingell,
American
Politician
#Support
#War
#Friends
#Mistake
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,
American
Politician
#People
#Country
#Body
#Party
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,
American
Politician
#Books
#Living
#Destruction
I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together.
John Dingell,
American
Politician
I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.
John Dingell,
American
Politician
#Want
#Support
I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.
John Dingell,
American
Politician
#Grudges
I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare.
John Dingell,
American
Politician
#Security
#Will
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,
American
Politician
#Time
#Law
#Change
#Rights
#Laws
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,
American
Politician
#Work
#Will
#Country
#Money
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,
American
Politician
#Talk
#Control
#Loss
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,
American
Politician
#May
#Respect
Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax - and it's a great big one.
John Dingell,
American
Politician
#Country
#Tax
This is the worst administration since Caligula.
John Dingell,
American
Politician
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,
American
Politician
#Problems
#Control
#Leadership
The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there.
John Dingell,
American
Politician
#Mistake
Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate.
John Dingell,
American
Politician
#Will
#Senate
#Democrats
To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?
John Dingell,
American
Politician
#War
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,
American
Politician
#Committee
#Commerce
War is failure of diplomacy.
John Dingell,
American
Politician
#War
#Diplomacy
#Failure
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,
American
Politician
#Being
#War
#President
#Peace
#Question
#Congress
#Trust
#Senate
#Facts
#Legislation
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,
American
Politician
#Now
#Feet
The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.
John Dingell,
American
Politician
#Now
#Congress