William Proxmire Quotes
The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.
The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.
The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big.
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.
I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.
I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.
The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.
