William Proxmire Famous Quotes
"Power always has to be kept in check power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous."
William Proxmire Quotations
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
Lewis Carroll
"Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality."
Joseph Conrad
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
Ray Bradbury
"Peter Good luck with your layoffs, alright, I hope your firings go really, really well."
Office Space
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
Horace
"So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him"
William Shakespeare
"Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat."
Dwight D Eisenhower
"We are certainly getting ahead if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar."
Sigmund Freud
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
George Herbert
"You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job."
Richard Milhous Nixon