Dirksen’s Three Laws of Politics
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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