John Dingell Quotes

I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Compromise is an honorable word.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

This is the worst administration since Caligula.