John Dingell Jr. Quotes

• War is failure of diplomacy.

  John Dingell Jr.

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

  John Dingell Jr.

• This is the worst administration since Caligula.

  John Dingell Jr.

• 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 Jr.

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

  John Dingell Jr.

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

  John Dingell Jr.

• 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 Jr.

• The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

  John Dingell Jr.

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

  John Dingell Jr.

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

  John Dingell Jr.

• 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 Jr.

• 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 Jr.

• 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 Jr.

• 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 Jr.

• 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 Jr.

• 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 Jr.

• 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 Jr.

• I’m Polish, I carry no grudges.

  John Dingell Jr.

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

  John Dingell Jr.

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

  John Dingell Jr.

John Dingell Jr. (25)

Birth:	8th July, 1926
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

John David Dingell Jr. was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. He is an American Democratic politician and lawyer. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan (1955-2015). Having served for over 59 years, he has the longest Congressional tenure in U.S. history. He was also the longest-serving Dean of the U.S. House of Representatives and Dean of the Michigan congressional delegation. He earned a BS degree in chemistry in 1949, and JD degree in 1952 both from Georgetown University. He was a lawyer in private practice, a research assistant to U.S. District Court judge Theodore Levin, a Congressional employee, a forest ranger, and assistant prosecuting attorney for Wayne County until 1955.

Related Authors

• Alan Autry
• Robert Treat Paine
• Robert Lansing
• John S. Pistole
• Michael Crapo
• Dennis Hastert
• Gore Vidal
• John Grisham
• Lisa Murkowski
• Barber B. Conable Jr.

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 5th November

Births

• 1855 - Eugene V. Debs
• 1971 - Jonny Greenwood
• 1976 - Sam Page
• 1945 - Peter Pace
• 1960 - Tilda Swinton

Deaths

• 1979 - Al Capp
• 1944 - Alexis Carrel
• 1991 - Robert Maxwell
• 1975 - Lionel Trilling
• 1990 - Meir Kahane