I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy]. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Earlier that year, at the hundredth anniversary of his Harvard club, a member was talking about the spirit of Harvard College and… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
“And as for people shunning us because of our known association with homosexuals”—here she wiggled her eyebrows, because she sounded ridiculously like… — Julia Spencer-Fleming Copy Share Image
As a lifelong student of the world’s wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that “ridding the world of evil”… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“And empathy? Even Trump’s former mentor, the notorious Roy Cohn, lawyer for gangsters and Joseph McCarthy, said that when it came to… — Bandy X Lee Copy Share Image
I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph]… — Peter Biskind Copy Share Image
For all the talk about the bitterness and the partisanship in American politics, is it really that bitter and partisan? Think of… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
Is a lifelong student of the world's wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that ridding the world of evil… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.” — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
“Patriotism July 4 ALL “ISMS” RUN OUT IN the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. If patriots… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy. — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Senator Joseph McCarthy was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. — John Wayne Copy Share Image
“This hostility against intellectual and cultural elites had antecedents in Senator Joseph McCarthy’s attacks in the 1950s, and arguably more generally forms… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
Joseph McCarthy and the John Birch Society launched an anti-Communist crusade that won the support of millions of Americans in the 1950s. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
American populist politics has a long tradition, from Andrew Jackson to Huey Long to Joseph McCarthy. But the politician Trump is most… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image