One of the advantages to knowing that your demise is imminent, and that reports of it will not be greatly exaggerated, is that you have a few moments to compose some parting thoughts, in our modern political age, the presidential bully pulpit seems dedicated to sowing division and denigrating, often in the most irrelevant and infantile personal terms, the political opposition.

John Dingell

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The harsh fact of the matter is when you're passing legislation that will cover 300 million American people in different ways, it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.

John Dingell

taken long people

War is failure of diplomacy.

John Dingell

diplomacy war

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

John Dingell

alcohol gun today

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

library environmental book

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

John Dingell

mistake war thinking

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

let-it-go would-be thinking

If were going to change the laws, lets 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

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I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

John Dingell

grudge polish

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

John Dingell

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Compromise is an honorable word.

John Dingell

honorable compromise

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

gun loss years

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

John Dingell

hezbollah israel sides

My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".

John Dingell

daddy snakes firsts

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

John Dingell

opportunity giving people

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

John Dingell

nuclear law doe

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

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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

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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

house war thinking

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

John Dingell

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

John Dingell

winning war thinking