Everett Dirksen
Everett Dirksen
Everett McKinley Dirksenwas an American politician of the Republican Party. He represented Illinois in the House of Representativesand the Senate...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 January 1896
CityPekin, IL
mightier oil
The oil can is mightier than the sword.
force power powerful time whose
There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
becoming dollars billions
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.
moving senate
The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks.
country suicide want
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.
law mad politics
Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.
moving house body
When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.
political politics campaigns
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.
inspirational change funny-life
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.
past years agony
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.
wish alarms expansion
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.
men principles basic-principles
I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.