American politics Quote by Ian Haney López

“During the early 1950s the hangman operating with the cold war troops was McCarthyism. For years it decimated social organizations, throttled free expression, and…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Of the things I had not known when I started out, I think the most important was the degree to which the legacy of…

— David Halberstam

“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

The portrayal of Senator Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't cowering in fear during the…

— Ann Coulter

Richard Hofstadter, in his famous book which was written in the time of the McCarthy period in the 1950 and 1960s, Anti-intellectualism in American…

— Joan Wallach Scott

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

McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled,

— Anonymous

One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.

— Pete Seeger

“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

McCarthy generally, as an individual, was a liberal. He was, in economic philosophy and a lot of other things, extremely liberal.

— Roy Cohn

In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine…

— Edmund White

“The 1930s, Kennedy said, 'taught us a clear lesson; aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.”

— John F. Kennedy