Eugene Mccarthy Quotes

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

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

Amy! Sit correctly, you are wearing a dress ... feet on the floor and your knees together girl ... You are trying to catch a husband, not flies ! — Amy Mah

Microresolutions focus on doing, not being. Being different follows, rather than precedes, deliberate action. — Caroline L. Arnold

Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope. — Eugene McCarthy

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

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

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

No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality. — William Feather

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

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

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

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

The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle. — Eugene McCarthy

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

Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember. — Eugene McCarthy

I'm getting married because it's time and I want to have a family." "No, that's why men get married. Women get married because they're in love. — Kristin Billerbeck

The mortician interviewing the corpses — Eugene McCarthy

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

There is no disappointment so numbing ... as someone no better than you achieving more. — Joseph Heller

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

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

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

We are the children of the Rastaman we are the children of the higher man — Bob Marley

Have you ever tried to split sawdust? — Eugene McCarthy

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

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

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

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

Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road. — Eugene McCarthy

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

Eugene McCarthy is definitely an inspiration to me as a Democrat and as someone going to the university. It is definitely important to me. — Vanessa L. Williams

God created for Himself a people that would ultimately share His involvement with them to others through evangelism. — Will McRaney

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

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. — William Henry Harrison