Everett Dirksen Quotes

• A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

  Everett Dirksen

  Funny, Money, Real

  "Farrell: Channeling Everett Dirksen" by Vince Farrell, www.cnbc.com. August 6, 2009.

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• Stronger than all the armies is an idea thats time has come. ... The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!

  Everett Dirksen

  Army, Opportunity, Government

  Speech to Senate on the Civil Rights Bill, delivered 10 June 1964, Washington, D.C.

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• I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

  Everett Dirksen

  Leadership, Business, Men

  Recalled on his death, 7 Sep 1969.

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• Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

  Everett Dirksen

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.

  Everett Dirksen

  Opportunity, Men, Color

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• But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

  Everett Dirksen

  Wish, Alarms, Expansion

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• When I feel the heat, I see the light.

  Everett Dirksen

  Light, Heat, Feels

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• When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.

  Everett Dirksen

  Moving, House, Body

  "Farrell: Channeling Everett Dirksen" by Vince Farrell, www.cnbc.com. August 6, 2009.

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• We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

  Everett Dirksen

  Dollars, Becoming, Billions

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• When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

  Everett Dirksen

  Real, Heart, House

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• Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.

  Everett Dirksen

  Law, Mad, Three

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• The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

  Everett Dirksen

  Heart, Compassion, Mind

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• I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.

  Everett Dirksen

  Men, Principles, Basic Principles

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• During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.

  Everett Dirksen

  Political, Campaigns, Politics

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• I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

  Everett Dirksen

  Suicide, Country, Want

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• The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks.

  Everett Dirksen

  Moving, Senate

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• We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

  Everett Dirksen

  Past, Years, Agony

  Congressional Record, vol. 113, January 11, 1967.

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