Everett Dirksen

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

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

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.

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

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