Everett Dirksen Quotes

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

When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies. - Everett Dirksen

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

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

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

The oil can is mightier than the sword. - Everett Dirksen

Mr. President, there is no royal road to a balanced budget. If there is, I have never discovered it in all the time I have been dealing with the millions of little figures that come to us in what looks like an unexpurgated mail-order catalog but what we call the budget of the United States, which contains some 1,100 pages. - Everett Dirksen

Mr. President, that whimsical English professor, Dr. Parkinson, should formulate another Parkinson's law relating to the public debt since it so closely parallels his law on bureaucratic growth. Just as spending will always reach and overtake revenues so the public debt will constantly pierce the ceiling and finally go into orbit. - Everett Dirksen

Mr. President, economy is an old-fashioned thing. It savors of horse and buggy days. I am only too glad, however, to say a few words in behalf of economy, for in economy, in frugality, and in the thrift of our Government I think we shall ultimately find ourselves and our salvation. - Everett Dirksen

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