83 Quotes by John Dingell

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

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

I’m Polish, I carry no grudges.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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