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 Quotes
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
 

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

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

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

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

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We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that

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

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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 Quotes

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.

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

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

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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion - Everett Dirksen Quotes

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

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

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

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I've decided to be a dull, morose bore at these press meetings. It's the only safe course. You give me no choice. I tell a joke and you convert it into an international incident. I coin a whimsical term and you make it appear I am at odds with the President. I indulge in some polite banter and you interpret it as a split in the Party. - Everett Dirksen Quotes

I've decided to be a dull, morose bore at these press meetings. It's the only safe course. You give me no choice. I tell a joke and you convert it into an international incident. I coin a whimsical term and you make it appear I am at odds with the President. I indulge in some polite banter and you interpret it as a split in the Party.

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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. - Everett Dirksen Quotes

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.

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 American Politician Congress
I think the Congress finally has succumbed to the very infectious virus of bigness that began at the beginning of the century, when we first heard about big business. After a while we heard about big government. Then we began to hear about big labor. This whole bigness idea has intruded itself on the thinking of the country. - Everett Dirksen Quotes

I think the Congress finally has succumbed to the very infectious virus of bigness that began at the beginning of the century, when we first heard about big business. After a while we heard about big government. Then we began to hear about big labor. This whole bigness idea has intruded itself on the thinking of the country.

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