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

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.

I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.

The idea behind Reaganomics is this: a rising tide lifts all yachts.

There will be no veterans of World War III.

You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.