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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

This is the worst administration since Caligula.

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

I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

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.

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.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

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.

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

I will stay very focused on my responsibilities as Secretary of Commerce and the economy's doing well. I mean, you asked about some of the challenges that we have or what is going on in the world and you know I, I'm pleased to report that the economy is doing extremely well.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.

It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.