Eugene McCarthy quotes

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Liberty #Bureaucracy #Threat

Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Three #Facts #Said

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Party #Two #People

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Military #War #Moral

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Political #Honor #World

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#People #Democracy #Might

The polls show that 10 percent of the public are ready to vote for me even though they don't know I'm running. We hope that figure won't drop when they learn I'm in the race.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Running #Race #Vote

If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Thinking

A newspaper may somewhat arrogantly assert that it prints "all the news that's fit to print." But no newspaper yet has been moved to declare at the end of each edition, "That's the way it is," as Walter Cronkite does.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Media #Doe #News

You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country and insult Lyndon Johnson and nobody would punch you in the nose.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Country #Bars #Noses

The difference between Carter and [Ted] Kennedy: Carter has this vague religion which he believes in strongly, while Kennedy has this strong religion which he believes in vaguely.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Strong #Believe #Differences

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Made

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Freedom #Differences #Long

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Football #Smart #Thinking

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Liberty #Politics #Bureaucracy

I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Sarcastic #Snakes #Want

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Men #Political #Sin

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#War #Defense

Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Powerful #Broken #Stronger

I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Kind #Judgment #Instruments

We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Country #Support #President

There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance.... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Two #California #Texas

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Country #Party #Men

One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Thinking #Pigs #Together

If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency,
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Running #Secret #Way

There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press...and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Book #Radio #Television

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Smell #Tears #Hospitality