John Dingell Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“War is failure of diplomacy.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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'm Polish, I carry no grudges.”

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

“This is the worst administration since Caligula.”

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