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Everett Dirksen [1896-1969] American

Rank: 102
Politician, Former American senator

Everett McKinley Dirksen was an American politician of the Republican Party. He represented Illinois in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Quote	Tags	Rank
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.	Money	101
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.		102
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.		103
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.	Strength	104
There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.	Power	105
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.	Respect	106
The oil can is mightier than the sword.		107
The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.		108
When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.		109
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.		110
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.		111
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.		112

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