29th July 2010

Dirksen’s Three Laws of Politics

Everett McKinley Dirksen

1. Get elected.
2. Get re-elected.
3. Don’t get mad get even.

Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, Republican from Illinois, served in the United States Senate for thirteen years (1957-69), ten of them as minority leader. The last of Senator Dirksen’s rules often is attributed to Joseph Patrick Kennedy father of John F.


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