Eugene McCarthy Quotes

• Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to know the game and stupid enough to think it is important.

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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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• The message from the administration today is a message of fear—even a message of fear of fear.

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• The war in Vietnam…[is] of questionable loyalty and constitutionality…diplomatically indefensible… morally wrong.

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

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

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

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  Tags in National, Candidate

• 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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• 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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  Tags in Football Coach, Comparison

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

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  Tags in Government, Liberty

Eugene McCarthy (13)

Birth:	29th March, 1916
Death:	10th December, 2005
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Poet, Politician, Professor

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