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A billion here, a billion there - pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Senator Everett Dirksen
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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
— Senator Everett Dirksen
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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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
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When I feel the heat, I see the light.
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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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