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William Proxmire has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is…
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The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr…
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The last few years have been my happiest. Im happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting…
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As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.
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The FDA and much, but not all, of the orthodox medical profession are actively hostile against vitamins and minerals... They are out…
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The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn…
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Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
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I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I…
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He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.
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A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is…
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Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
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Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration ...
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May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an…
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature…
— C.S. Lewis
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...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual,…
— Michel Foucault
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Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
— William Proxmire
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