Trump Quotes by Everett Dirksen

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

— Everett Dirksen

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

— Everett Dirksen

Stronger than all the armies is an idea thats time has come. ... The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in…

— Everett Dirksen

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the…

— Everett Dirksen

“We have two parties here, and only two. One is the evil party, and the other is the stupid party. Occasionally, the two parties…

— Everett Dirksen

When I feel the heat, I see the light.

— Everett Dirksen

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

— Everett Dirksen

The oil can is mightier than the sword.

— Everett Dirksen

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

— Everett Dirksen

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

— Everett Dirksen

We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that…

— Everett Dirksen

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

— Everett Dirksen

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

— Everett Dirksen

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

— Everett Dirksen

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

— Everett Dirksen