37 Quotes by Everett Dirksen

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

When I feel the heat, I see the light.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The oil can is mightier than the sword.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.