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There are 22 quotes for the author Everett Dirksen

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Subject: Money

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

A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.

I inject a bit of fladoodle into our pleasant fellowship and I get on the front page. I venture of a bit of flummery and you make me a target. But no more. Henceforth my communication shall be yea, yea, nay, nay. More than that is dangerous. You have but yourselves to blame.

Here we are considering an amendment increasing an already huge appropriation by $1,000,000,000. It is like using a teaspoon in order to get a few taxes into the Treasury and at the same time at the back door using a scoop shovel to shovel them out.

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

The oil can is mightier than the sword.

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.

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.

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

An old man once taught me what a million is. He said, look at your watch, and watch the second hand. You can see it every second, every minute, every day, every night, every week, every month, every year - and in 3 years it would go around 1,000,000 times.

Mr. President, I must say that I have never had "spender-itis"; I have never had "squander-itis." But I freely admit to having "budget-itis"; and there is a reason for it - because I have watched this Government in its every function grow.

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.

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

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

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.

I know how easy it is to say, oh, it is only $20,000,000, or, it is only $80,000,000, or it is only $240,000,000 a year that will be taken out of the pockets of the taxpayer. But where will it finally stop? I do not know.

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

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.

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.

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