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Everett Dirksen

"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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"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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"A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle."

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"No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?"

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"Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way."

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"It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through."

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A.E. Samaan

"I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?"

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"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."

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"Never ask a bore a question."

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"I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions."

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"I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me."

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"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."
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"When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies."
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"I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times."
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"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."
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"The oil can is mightier than the sword."
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"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."
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"The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion."
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"There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
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"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."
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