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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."

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"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."

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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."

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"A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly."

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"I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years."

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