John Dingell Quotes (61 Quotes)

Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

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.

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.

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

The president would prefer that all lawsuits involving negligent HMOs be handled in federal court, where injured patients would have to travel far from home and wait in a long line behind criminals and other miscreants to have their cases heard, ... This is wrong and we reject it.

...the hardest hammer can only strike the nail squarely when guided by the softer hand in other words, the pursuit of truth was most effective when tempered with fairness...

Mr. Pitt got in trouble. If he is not doing the job, sees to it that security laws are properly enforced, it's time for him to depart.

In a statement, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, the committee's chairman, said New services shouldn't be hamstrung by old thinking and outdated regulations. ... Updating the 1996 Telecommunications Act is one of my top priorities for the fall, and this bipartis

FEMA has lost its way. FEMA has been submerged in a sea of bureaucracy,

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

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

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.

Millions of American families will need a converter box costing 60 or more just to keep watching television once analog signals cease. House Republicans, to protect their tax cuts, would force millions of Americans to reach into their wallets and pay a television tax of 20 to 60 per TV set. Why should ordinary people pay for a government decision that makes their television sets obsolete

This staff draft is a very useful starting point in the process,

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.

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.

This is the worst administration since Caligula.

I will examine the details of this proposal to make sure it advances our goals of conserving fuel while preserving U.S. jobs and maintaining the safety of our cars and trucks.

War is failure of diplomacy.

That's the equivalent of one Big Mac or one Happy Meal a month. That's a small price to pay to ensure that you have fundamental rights regarding your health care,

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

I have great reservations about the whole idea. It is my view that cuts in Medicaid can be achieved by intelligent and sensible mechanisms.

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

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

These meetings should be brought to light so that we can tell how the public interest was served,

To go beyond this is to harass innocent law-abiding citizens and to hurt people who love to go to gun shows,

I don't think it makes sense for the United States to take on the whole world on the question of whether or not we're going after Saddam Hussein.

We want to retard the process enough so members have enough time to learn about what was done.

It's a piece of legislation that can best and most kindly be described as a fraud upon a group of people who had high hopes that their Congress will take care of them.

The plan is long on directions and short on resources for non-federal partners in pandemic preparedness.

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

We will need to determine how to stop this kind of misbehavior in the future. We hope today's action is the first step by the board to operate in a more professional, nonpartisan manner.

that the majority staff analysis was released prematurely and with minimal regard for the very real fears of consumers.

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

a poorly thought out and poorly vetted effort to pass Republican and industry wish lists.

Mr. Brown was regrettably an administrator, or an officer, or the head of an Arabian horse association. Hardly qualifying him to address the kind of problems he is looking at now.

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.

This bill does nothing except to help the insurance companies and the well-to-do and the healthy.

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

There can be only one explanation for this rush to markup and then to the floor, and it is the desire of the Republican leadership of the House to use the hardships and devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to push various parts of their agenda, ... But poorly thought out and poorly vetted efforts to pass industrial and ideological wish lists are not the way to respond to the actual energy issues raised by Katrina.

This startling new data shows that in seven of the ten industries studied, the wage gap between male and female managers widened between 1995 and 2000, ... It's compelling evidence that the glass ceiling remains a powerful obstacle to women in the workforce, and it suggests things may be getting worse, not better.

We can offer (Bush) support for an intelligent policy, ... We can't offer him support for a policy ... that is unduly complicated.

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.

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

There is a tendency of the American people to give those who are elected an opportunity to carry out their policies and programs.

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

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.