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 important.
– Eugene J. McCarthy
Have you ever tried to split sawdust?
– Eugene J. McCarthy
I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.
– Eugene J. McCarthy
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
– Eugene J. McCarthy
No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.
– Eugene J. McCarthy
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 survived on life rafts.
– Eugene J. McCarthy
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
– Eugene J. McCarthy
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 of their country.
– Eugene J. McCarthy
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.