Comments on: Can’t Buy Me Love

By: Ron Snyder

Ron Snyder — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:51:39 +0000

The late Senator Dirksen is also quoted as having said “The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.”

Pretty cynical lad he was, and as we all know, our Congress Critters are most compassionate.

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:31:47 +0000

Prairie Stater tho I am, and someone who grew up with Dirksen quoted on local tv news outlets practically every night, I’d forgotten that second quote, Scott, thanks…

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:17:19 +0000

Actually, it was Republican Senator Everitt Dierksen, from Illinois. Senate Minority Leader from ’59 to ’69. Also, order of magnitude change on the $$ — he said “billion here, billion there…”

Another good one from him, to think about as we consider a new program that will cost $1,000,000,000,000 per annum, is this one:

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.

By: Quartermaster

Quartermaster — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:15:42 +0000

The first politician I knew of that said that was Sen. Everett Dirkson (R-IL), Howard Baker’s father-in-law. I remember him saying in the early 60s.

There may have been a few conservative Dems who said it, but they are an endangered species and probably in hiding these days, if they still exist.

By: PeterGunn

PeterGunn — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:30:07 +0000

Hi Marianne,

Guess who said that! None other than B.H. Obama himself:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/04/20/100-million-there-100-million-here/

The context is actually a good one, as it was in response to a question about whether or not a million dollars really amounted to that much. BHO responded with the quote you cited. The occasion was his first meeting of his cabinet and the bloom was still intact, upon the rose.

By: OldT6Flyer

OldT6Flyer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:46:38 +0000

Sam Rayburn???