Eugene McCarthy Quotes
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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.
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If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.
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We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.
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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.
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I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.
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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.
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I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.
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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.
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The mortician interviewing the corpses
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If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency.
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The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact.
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Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.
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I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.
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Have you ever tried to split sawdust?
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An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember.
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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.
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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.
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Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.
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Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.
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Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.
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We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.
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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.
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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.
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As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.
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In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.
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Eugene McCarthy
- Born: March 29, 1916
- Died: December 10, 2005
- Occupation: Former United States Senator
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