Quotes from Eugene McCarthy

Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.

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

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

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

In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.

There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

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

He's like a football coach who's smart enough to win the game and dumb enough to think it's important.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honour the territorial imperative.

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.

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

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.

Have you ever tried to split sawdust?

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

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

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

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.