America Quote by Max Lerner

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

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

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

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

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

We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned…

— Lionel Shriver

“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

If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change,"…

— Edward R. Murrow

“There are a dozen books about McCarthy. Yet there is no biography of the senator who had the backbone to stand up to him…

— David McCullough

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

— Emanuel Celler

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

— Roy Cohn

“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