Quotes About McCarthy

I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.

Eisenhower understood that Oppenheimer might well be the victim of scurrilous charges. But having ordered an investigation, he was not about to stop the process. Such a move would leave him vulnerable to a charge from McCarthy that the White House was shielding a potential security risk. So, the president sent a formal note to the attorney general, ordering him "to place a blank wall" between Oppenheimer and classified material

I have a lot of respect with Mike McCarthy and for what he's done.

We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image.

The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy... he's got a lot of medical round him

When Patton now showed up on the Mary to welcome them, Sergeant Bill Pajewski punched Corporal Sam McCarthy in the ribs. "Man," he whispered in obvious consternation, "do you see what I see? It's Old Blood and Guts!" McCarthy responded by crossing himself.

The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy's day; I'd estimate it as hovering around 30 percent. A minority, but one never all that enamored of the niceties of democracy - they see themselves as fighting for the survival of civilization, after all.

Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard.

His subtle obsession with uniqueness troubled all his dreams.

All of this like some ancient anointing. So be it. Evoke the forms. Where you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.

Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned.

Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone. She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.

He looked into those blue eyes like a man seeking some vision of the increate future of the universe.

Do you think God knows what's happenin? I expect he does. You think he can stop it? No. I dont.

where'd you get that pistol? At the gettin place

All the trouble I ever was in, said Ballard, was caused by whiskey or women or both.

But the kid only spat into the darkness of the space between them. I know your kind, he said. What's wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.

War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is God.

Commend him gently, whom the wrath he suckled at his heart has wasted more than years.

Diabolical on the other hand is all but synonymous with ingenious. What Satan had for sale in the garden was knowledge.

You wont man that son of a bitch, said Brown. I can man anything that eats. Get me a piece of jerky.

In an ideal world the gossip of the idle would be of no consequence. But I have seen the consequences in the real world and they can be very grave indeed.

Still, I've got to hand it to you. As the trick said to the blind hooker.