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

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Everett Dirksen

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Everett Dirksen

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
Everett Dirksen

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that "thousands" has almost passed out of the dictionary.
Everett Dirksen

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

The oil can is mightier than the sword.
Everett Dirksen

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