The last few years have been my happiest. Im happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I dont feel that a bit. Smiling…

- William Proxmire

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

- William Proxmire

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 healt…

- William Proxmire

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

- William Proxmire

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 woul…

- William Proxmire

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

- William Proxmire

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

- William Proxmire

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

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

- William Proxmire