Quote by David Halberstam

In doing the screenplay for 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' the most important thing for me was to constantly go back to wherever the…

— George Clooney

“This hostility against intellectual and cultural elites had antecedents in Senator Joseph McCarthy’s attacks in the 1950s, and arguably more generally forms a persistent…

— Ian Haney López

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its…

— Max Lerner

“He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and the open…

— Barack Obama

“Of the trials that Eisenhower encountered in politics, McCarthy’s behavior was the most difficult to abide. In his private correspondence, Eisenhower repeatedly conveyed his…

— John A. Farrell

The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion was against…

— Ann Coulter

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

— Lester B. Pearson

One thing I love about Cormac McCarthy is the types of pressure he puts onto people. You see the best and the worst in…

— John Hillcoat

“Teddy McCarthy to John McCarthy, no relation, John McCarthy back to Teddy McCarthy, still no relation.”

— Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh

If you're a horse in a race, if you don't have blinkers on, and you turn your head and look at the audience, you're…

— John Hillcoat

“Most sources agree that Dean’s best work came under rarefied, idealized conditions, not under a barrage of criticism such as Strasberg’s.”

— Val Holley

“But [Stanley Wade] instead removed his glasses and wiped his eyes. They were moist not from fear but from the harsh reality of being…

— John Grisham