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

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

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

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

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.

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