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

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.

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

Tomorrow, I'm going to a soup kitchen in Mobile. I think that will symbolize the insensitivity of this administration to human needs.

I've seen the film. And I'll tell you this, I'm glad Chuck Yeager isn't running for President.

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

Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.