Quotes by John Dingell

About John Dingell:

John David Dingell, Jr. is an American politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives from December 13, 1955, until January 3, 2015. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He represented Michigan throughout his congressional tenure and most recently served as the representative for Michigan's 12th congressional district.
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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

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

John Dingell

War is failure of diplomacy.

John Dingell

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

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

John Dingell

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

John Dingell

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

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

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

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

John Dingell

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

John Dingell

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

John Dingell

I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

John Dingell

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 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

Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate.

John Dingell

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

John Dingell

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

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

John Dingell

The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there.

John Dingell

Author Bio

  • NameJohn Dingell
  • DescriptionAmerican politician
  • AliasesJohn Dingell; John David Dingell, Jr.; John D. Dingell, Jr.
  • BornJuly 8, 1926
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Lawyer