America Quote by Martha Gellhorn

“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

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

Senator Joseph McCarthy was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived.

— John Wayne

[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Roy Cohn

But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a…

— Jack Newfield

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists…

— Ken Follett

If there had been a charismatic figure in the United States who could mobilize fears, anger, racism, a sense of loss of the future…

— Noam Chomsky

My grandfather was an American Communist, and he married my grandmother, who was a Russian Communist. During the 1950s, the McCarthy era, my family…

— Bill Browder

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

— Desi Arnaz

McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

— Pat Buchanan

It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that…

— Whittaker Chambers