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William Proxmire Quotes: The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.
         

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.


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I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.



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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 have failed.



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