Quotes by Everett Dirksen - Page 1

When I feel the heat, I see the light.
Everett Dirksen / Former U.s. Senator
Feels
Heat
Light
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The oil can is mightier than the sword.
Everett Dirksen / Former U.s. Senator
Oil
Sword Than Mightier
Mightier
Sword
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There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Everett Dirksen / Former U.s. Senator
Power
Force
Powerful
Idea
Whose
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I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.
Everett Dirksen / Former U.s. Senator
Men
Basic Principles
Principles
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The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks.
Everett Dirksen / Former U.s. Senator
Moving
Senate
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A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Everett Dirksen / Former U.s. Senator
Funny
Money
Real
Talking
About
Pretty
Billion
You
Here
Real Money
Soon
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When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.
Everett Dirksen / Former U.s. Senator
Body
House
Moving
Raises
Senate
Bodies
Both
Iq
Member
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Leadership
Business
Men
Fixed
Political
Principles
Am
Man
First
Times
Which
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
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 / Former U.s. Senator
Compassion
Heart
Mind
Persuasion
Match
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Accustomed
Becoming
Billions
Dictionary
Dollars
Millions
Billions Of Dollars
Passed
Thousands
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Change
Inspirational
Life
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Community
Done
Heart
House
Real
Said
Citadel
Desires
Hearts
Minds
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Respect
Bills
Commit
Congress
Country
Suicide
Want
Authorization
Fiscal
Installment
Plan
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Alarms
Difficulty
Embrace
Expansion
Remains
Wish
Alarm
Basic
Easily
Express
Federal
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Opportunity
Men
Color
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Agony
Past
Years
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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 we are going through this quiet agony all over again.
Everett Dirksen / Former U.s. Senator
Agony
Different Times
Five
Quiet
Appears
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Politics
Busy
Campaigns
Concerned
Political
Political Campaign
Campaign
Candidate
Elected
Except
Question
Wondering
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Opportunity
Government
Army
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