"the American taxpayers had wasted $550,000 teaching five chimpanzees to talk sign language. What could a chimpanzee have to say that might be of interest? Proxmire asked. Well, he said, here it is in black and white, here are the earth-shattering comments from these chimps, after a half million dollars of English lessons: "Gimme banana!" and "I gotta go potty!" He was reading from one of my papers on the Senate floor! The big fat pompous asshole. I should've sued the bastard."