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

- Everett Dirksen

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

- Everett Dirksen

Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.

- Everett Dirksen

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.

- Everett Dirksen

Stronger than all the armies is an idea thats time has come. ... The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education…

- Everett Dirksen

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks.

- Everett Dirksen

Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, dimin…

- Everett Dirksen

When I feel the heat, I see the light.

- Everett Dirksen

We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through…

- Everett Dirksen