Everett Dirksen Quotes

“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.”

“There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”

“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.”

“The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast but never sinks.”

“I am a man of principles, and my first principle is flexibility.”

“When I feel the heat, I see the light.”

“Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums and those in cemeteries.”

“[George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.”

“In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.”