Quotes by John Dingell - Page 1

War is failure of diplomacy.
John Dingell / United States Representative
Failure
War
Diplomacy
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I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.
John Dingell / United States Representative
Grudge
Polish
Grudges
Carry
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Compromise is an honorable word.
John Dingell / United States Representative
Compromise
Honorable
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This is the worst administration since Caligula.
John Dingell / United States Representative
Administration
Worst
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To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?
John Dingell / United States Representative
War
Thinking
Winning
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My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".
John Dingell / United States Representative
Daddy
Firsts
Snakes
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The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.
John Dingell / United States Representative
Aggravation
Congress
Divided
Entity
Fairly
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I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together.
John Dingell / United States Representative
President
Together
Eisenhower
Presidents
Serve
Worked
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I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah or for or against Israel.
John Dingell / United States Representative
Hezbollah
Israel
Sides
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I'll look and pick the best, and the one who can do the best job for the party.
John Dingell / United States Representative
Pick
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The DOE and DOD are among the most notorious offenders of our hazardous waste laws.
John Dingell / United States Representative
Doe
Law
Nuclear
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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 / United States Representative
Alone
Hussein
Saddam
Support
Want
Saddam Hussein
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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 / United States Representative
Country
Energy
Realizing
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The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam Hussein in charge of affairs.
John Dingell / United States Representative
Affair
Leaving
Mistake
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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 / United States Representative
Tax
Big One
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The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there.
John Dingell / United States Representative
Leaving
Mistake
Saddam
Affairs
Charge
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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 / United States Representative
War
Allies
Mistake
Thinking
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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 / United States Representative
Domestic Policy
Issues
People
Policy
Vote
American People
Domestic
Foreign
Issue
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The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are.
John Dingell / United States Representative
Democratic
Democratic Party
Middle
Moving
Needs
Party
People
Where Look People
Look People American
American People
Carefully
Look People Where
Towards
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Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate.
John Dingell / United States Representative
Senate
Close
Democrats
Prediction
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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 / United States Representative
Effort
Medicare
Real
Security
Social Security
Thinking
Begin
Efforts
Protecting
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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 / United States Representative
Opportunity
Giving
People
Program
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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 / United States Representative
Environmental
Book
Burning
Destruction
Library
Species
Books
Wild
Read
Unread
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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 / United States Representative
Colleagues
Democratic
Factors
Gun
Gun Control
Loss
Seats
Years
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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 / United States Representative
Feet
Seems
Suggesting
Mr
Close
Foot
Mouth
Pitt
Purposes
Served
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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.
John Dingell / United States Representative
Respect
Enormous
Formal
May
Nra
Position
Taken
Thinking
Ahead
Aware
Getting
Tom
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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 / United States Representative
Leadership
Aisle
Both Sides
Capitol
Groups
Gun
Gun Control
Nra
Sides
Control
Endorsed
Major
Problems
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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 / United States Representative
Law
Rights
Second Amendment
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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 / United States Representative
Chairman
Commerce
Let It Go
Thinking
Would Be
Mr
Committee
Gets
Head
However
Plain
Thinks
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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 / United States Representative
Citizens
Criminals
Easier
Protect
Second Amendment
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Catch
Law-Abiding
Law-Abiding Citizens
Same Time
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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 / United States Representative
Country
Criminals
Gun
Ought
Catch
Guns
Million
Owned
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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 / United States Representative
Alcohol
Gun
Today
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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 / United States Representative
Country
Democratic
Democratic Party
Mansions
Party
Representing
Views
Broad
Extremely
Parts
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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 / United States Representative
War
Administration
Congress
Failing
House
Legislation
Regard
Senate
Thinking
Disclose
Impair
Material
Presented
This Administration
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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 / United States Representative
Long
People
Taken
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