"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty……" — Everett Dirksen
"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money."
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Everett Dirksen
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17 Quotes by Everett Dirksen
Everett Dirksen has 17 quotes on this site.
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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
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Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and…
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When I feel the heat, I see the light.
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We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years,…
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When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds…
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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…
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When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.
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Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.
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I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
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I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit…
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But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my…
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We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.
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After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you…
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Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks,…
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A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars.…
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If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.
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Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims…
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With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world…
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Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before…
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In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million.…
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