Moving Quote by Everett Dirksen Download Open image “The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks.” — Everett Dirksen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Moving Senate
The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium. — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
The Senate is extremely slow: They have enormous difficulty passing the bills that even get through the House. That's the reality that I've recognized… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its… — George Sand Copy Share Image
The Senate is indeed a deliberative body, and that quality serves the nation well. A slow-moving government helps us maintain a stable government. But… — John C. Danforth Copy Share Image
What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator. — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that an unencumbered U.S. senator is a profound threat to the whole system. It's somebody that they can't put in… — Angus King Copy Share Image
The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
Every once in a while, the Senate seems to remember that it belongs to a coequal branch. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies. — Everett Dirksen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. — Everett Dirksen Copy Share Image
Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even. — Everett Dirksen Copy Share Image
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that housands has almost passed out of the dictionary. — Everett Dirksen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money. — Everett Dirksen Copy Share Image
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Two things revolutionised life: moving to the countryside and falling in love. — Nick Love Copy Share Image
I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability! — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
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It is natural that our minds replay old stories, because that is our own mechanism for trying to work out unresolved problems. Yet rerunning… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In China, people are moving from bigger cars to small hatches, and interestingly, the Indian market is graduating to bigger cars and sedans. I… — Winfried Vahland Copy Share Image
I have heard that if you pull a bent breath through the second hole of a harmonica tuned to the key of Georgia while… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
