Proxmire Quotes

#1. Bill Proxmire represents almost the last of one of America's most remarkable generations.

Walter F. Mondale

#2. You feel you've seen a hundred of me. You know how my tiny mind works. But maybe it goes both ways.

Helen Oyeyemi

#3. Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

Iris Chang

#4. The cook in the kitchen preparing a meal from plants and animals at the end of this shortest of food chains has a great many things to worry about, but "health" is simply not one of them, because it is given.

Michael Pollan

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

William Proxmire

#6. Him who is dead and gone honor with remembrance, not with tears.

Saint John Chrysostom

#7. The FDA and much, but not all, of the orthodox medical profession are actively hostile against vitamins and minerals ... They are out to get the health food industry ... And they are trying to do this out of active hostility and prejudice.

William Proxmire

#8. Help us, oh God, to remember that we are Americans. United not by race or religion or by blood, but to our commitment to freedom and justice for all. When we focus on ourselves, when we fight each other, when we forget you, forgive us.

Rick Warren

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

William Proxmire

#10. 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.

William Proxmire

#11. The trip back from Pointe du Lac was thrilling. And the constant chatter of Lestat was positively the most boring and disheartening thing I experienced. Of course as I said, I was far from being his equal.

Anne Rice

#12. It was decided. I was going to let Ryan Foster do me. I had no idea when it would happen, but it was inevitable. If he kept being this cute, it was inevitable.

S. Walden

#13. Erasing is exercise for the hands

Elizabeth Rawls

#14. Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence.

Paul Robeson

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

William Proxmire

#16. 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.

William Proxmire

#17. As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.

William Proxmire

#18. The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.

William Proxmire

#19. I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.

William Proxmire

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

William Proxmire

#21. This little boy playing next to me is an intellectual mass of cells - better yet, he's a clockwork of subatomic movements, a strange electrical conglomeration of millions of solar systems in minature. [58, Zenith trans.]

Fernando Pessoa

#22. Now there were a few skirt-wearing, firm-breasted Algerian women who shuttled between our world and the world of the roumis, down in the French neighborhoods. We brats used to call them whores and stone them with our eyes. They were fascinating targets, because they could promise the pleasures of

Kamel Daoud

#23. The more you practive overcoming your obstacles, the more you will welcome them & be unafraid.

Hrithik Roshan

#24. There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

Leon Bloy

#25. 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.

William Proxmire

#26. 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.

William Proxmire