Quotes from William Proxmire

The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.

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.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.

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.

It's hard enougth to find intelligent life right here in Washington!

The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big.

He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.