Top 35 Quotes & Sayings by John Dingell

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Last updated on April 15, 2025.

John David Dingell Jr. was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1955 until 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he holds the record for longest-serving member of Congress in American history, representing Michigan for more than 59 years. He most recently served as the representative for Michigan's 12th congressional district. A longtime member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Dingell was the chairman of the committee from 1981 to 1995 and 2007 to 2009.

American - Politician | Born: July 8, 1926

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

John Dingell

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

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

John Dingell

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

John Dingell

This is the worst administration since Caligula.

John Dingell

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

John Dingell

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

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

John Dingell

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

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

John Dingell

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

John Dingell

I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

John Dingell

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

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

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

John Dingell

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

John Dingell

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

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

John Dingell

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

War is failure of diplomacy.

John Dingell

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

John Dingell

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

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

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.

John Dingell

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

John Dingell

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

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

John Dingell

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

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

John Dingell

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.

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