politician
Político estadounidense (1896–1969)
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Join the roomEverett McKinley Dirksen fue un político estadounidense. Republicano, representó a Illinois en la Cámara de Representantes de los Estados Unidos y en el Senado de los Estados Unidos. Como líder de la minoría en el Senado desde 1959 hasta su muerte en 1969, desempeñó un papel muy visible y clave en la política de los años 1960. Ayudó a redactar y aprobar la Ley de Derechos Civiles de 1964 y la Ley de Derechos Civiles de 1968, ambas piezas legislativas emblemáticas durante el movimiento por los derechos civiles. También fue uno de los más firmes partidarios de la guerra de Vietnam en el Senado. Orador talentoso con un estilo florido y una voz de bajo notablemente rica, pronunció discursos flamboyantes que hicieron que sus detractores lo llamaran «The Wizard of Ooze».
“I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.”
“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.”
“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!”
“There are gentle men in whom gentility finally destroys whatever of iron there was in their souls. There are iron men in whom the iron corroded whatever gentility they possessed. There are men—not many to be sure—in whom the gentility and the iron were preserved in proper balance, each of these attributes to be summoned up as the occasion requires. Such a man was Harry Byrd.”
“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.”
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