John Dingell Quotes
This is the worst administration since Caligula.
Dingell, John. Interview by Rachel Maddow. The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, 20 Nov. 2008.
He was referring to governments that imposed some form of morality in their citizens. Free governments do no dictate a morality and require their citizens to follow it. He was very much opposed to Prohibition which he saw as a poor government—Herbert Hoover’s Administration—which was imposing its narrow morality on all. He was very suspicious of government actions where the government claimed that the action was for moral objectives. This is a classic Libertarian view. In general, it is Fundamentalists and ideologues who want to impose their particular morality on all. See {620693} for a related idea.
Mark Twain referring to and reflecting on his encounter with the Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Aziz.
The Colonial Governor of Massachusetts, like most of his class in England was not a fan of democracy.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
Perhaps the most famous quotation in all of Political Science is this one. What is fascinating is that 74 years earlier, Shelly, the most famous of the English Poets expressed the same idea in one of his great poems. See {627920}. The last sentence of this quote is often excluded.
Iturbide, known also as Agustin I, was the first Emperor of Mexico who was executed by a firing squad.
The George W. Bush administration had a reelection coming up and this administration had raised opacity to a new high in American History.
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.
