Frases de Everett Dirksen

Everett McKinley Dirksen foi um político republicano dos Estados Unidos, pelo estado de Illinois. Ele foi um dos líderes do seu partido na Câmara dos Representantes e no Senado e ganhou destaque nos anos 60, quando ajudou a passar a Lei dos Direitos Civis de 1964. Ele também, como um fervoroso anticomunista, apoiou a Guerra do Vietnã. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. Janeiro 1896 – 7. Setembro 1969
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Everett Dirksen frases e citações

“Um bilhão aqui, outro ali, e daqui a pouco você vai estar falando sobre dinheiro de fato.”

A billion here, a billion there; the first thing you know you're talking about real money!
citado em American Opinion‎ - v.24, Página 97, de Robert Welch - Publicado por Robert Welch, Inc., 1981
A billion here, a billion there—pretty soon you're talking about real money
conforme citado por Ronald Reagan em pronunciamento de 21 de janeiro de 1984

“Sou um homem de princípios rígidos e estáveis. O primeiro deles é ser sempre flexível.”

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times
citado em Chambers dictionary of quotations‎ - Página 331, de Alison Jones, Stephanie Pickering, Megan Thomson - Publicado por Chambers, 1997, ISBN 0550210199, 9780550210197 - 1515 páginas

Everett Dirksen: Frases em inglês

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

As quoted in Caught Between the Dog and the Fireplug, or, How to Survive Public Service (2001) by Kenneth H. Ashworth, p. 11

“A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money.”

Although often quoted, it seems Dirksen never actually said this. The Dirksen Congressional Research Center made an extensive search https://web.archive.org/web/20140127115225/http://www.dirksencenter.org:80/print_emd_billionhere.htm when fully 25% of enquiries to them were about the quotation. They could find Dirksen did say "a billion here, a billion there", and things close to that, but not the "pretty soon you're talking real money" part. They had one gentleman report to them he had asked Dirksen about it on an airplane trip and received the reply: "Oh, I never said that. A newspaper fella misquoted me once, and I thought it sounded so good that I never bothered to deny it."
The Yale Book of Quotations cites a similar statement in The New York Times on Jan. 10, 1938: "Well, now, about this new budget. It’s a billion here and a billion there, and by and by it begins to mount up into money." https://books.google.com/books?id=ck6bXqt5shkC&lpg=PP1&dq=%22fred%20r.%20shapiro%22%20yale%20book%20of%20quotations&pg=PA206#v=onepage&q=%22everett%20m.%20dirksen%22&f=false
Misattributed

“Stronger than all the armies is an idea that's time has come. … The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!”

Paraphrasing Victor Hugo when speaking about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Civil_Rights_Filibuster_Ended.htm (10 June 1964)
1960s

“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 this quiet agony all over again.”

Remarks in the Senate on a resolution to amend Senate Rule 22 (cloture), Congressional Record (January 11, 1967), vol. 113, p. 182
1960s

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