Quotes by Everett McKinley Dirksen

A billion here and a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.
– Everett McKinley Dirksen
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
– Everett McKinley Dirksen
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incomptetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.
– Everett McKinley Dirksen
The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
– Everett McKinley Dirksen
The oil can is mightier than the sword.
– Everett McKinley Dirksen
There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
– Everett McKinley Dirksen