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John Dingell
July 8, 1926 -
Nationality: American
Category: Politician
Subcategory: American Politician

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

This is the worst administration since Caligula.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

War is failure of diplomacy.

   

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

   

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.

   

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