Everett Dirksen Quotes

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• The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
• Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.
• When I feel the heat, I see the light.
• We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that…
• 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…
• 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…
• When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.
• Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.
• A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
• I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
• 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…
• 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…
• We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.
• 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;…
• The oil can is mightier than the sword.
• There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
• We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that housands has almost passed out of the dictionary.

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