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Quotations by author » Eugene J. McCarthy
American democratic Senator from Minnesota, b.1916 |
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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. |
| Football; Politics |
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| I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel. |
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| It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. |
| Politics |
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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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| No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins. |
| Presidency; Sin |
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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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| 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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| The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency. |
| Bureaucracy |
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| The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is the inefficiency |
| Bureaucracy |
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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. |
| America and Americans; Government |
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| The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. 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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| 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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