More From Everett Dirksen
- "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."
- "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money."
- "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."
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- "I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty."― Barbara Kruger
- "The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?"― W. E. B. Du Bois
- "I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that."― Lawrence Kasdan