"When I face an issue of great import that cleaves both constituents and colleagues, I always take the same approach. I engage in deep deliberation and quiet contemplation. I wait to the last available minute and then I always vote with the losers. Because, my friend, the winners never remember and the losers never forget."
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Civil rights activistsMembers of the United States SenateUnited States presidential candidates, 1944Republican Party (United States) politiciansPoliticians from Illinois
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As quoted in Business Wit & Wisdom (2005) by Richard S. Zera, p. 164
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Everett Dirksen
Everett McKinley Dirksen (4 January 1896 – 7 September 1969) was an American politician. A Republican, he represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. As Senate Minority Leader from 1959 until his death in 1969, he played a highly visible and key role in the politics of the 1960s. He helped write and pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968, both landmark pieces of legislation during the civil rights movement. He was a
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