Eugene McCarthy Quotes

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• The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
• I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.
• It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
• The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
• 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…
• No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.
• If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency,
• An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
• I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.
• 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…
• Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.
• 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…
• The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
• Have you ever tried to split sawdust?

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