Eugene McCarthy Quotes
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The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
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I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.
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It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
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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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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…
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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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If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency,
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An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.
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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…
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Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
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Have you ever tried to split sawdust?
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