Bob Packwood

Robert William Packwood (born September 11, 1932) is an American retired lawyer and politician from Oregon who served as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives representing the 6th district from 1963 to 1969 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1969 to 1995. He resigned from the U.S. Senate under threat of expulsion, in 1995 after allegations of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and assault of women emerged. He is a member of the Republican Party.

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Quotes

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.
- In The New York Times (30 May 1986), reported in Adam Clymer (ed.) The New York Times Year in Review: 1986 (1987) p. 416. A similar quotation is attributed to William Pitkin in the American Nurseryman, vol. 34, no. 1, Rochester, NY (July 1921) p. 3, col. 1: "Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment." Compare: Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued, rev. ed. (1831) vol. 3, ch. 8, p. 159: "Judgment comes from experience, and experience is only gotten by practice."