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

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.

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.

[Running for President is] physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

I've traveled more this year than any other living human being, and if I'd traveled any more I wouldn't be living.

By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye.