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Eugene McCarthy
18 quotes
“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 McCarthy (1916–2005) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Washington Post" (12 November 1967)
“Have you ever tried to split sawdust?”
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Response to accusations that he had split the US Democratic Party by campaigning for president. NBC TV (23 October 1969)
“[T]here should be absolute freedom of expression without any kind of restraint or limitation. This position is generally defended by the uncritical assertion that every person has the right to express his views or judgment on any subject, and the rather obvious limitations are usually demonstrated by irrelevant examples, such as denying a person the right to shout ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre when there is no fire.”
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Censorship: For And Against, edit. Harold H. Hart, Hart Publishing Company, Inc., New York (1971), chapter 6, p. 113
“The real basis of freedom of speech and of expression is not, however, the right of a person to say what he thinks or what he wishes to say but the right and need of all persons to learn the truth. The only practical approach to this end is freedom of expression.”
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Censorship: For And Against, edit. Harold H. Hart, Hart Publishing Company, Inc., New York (1971), chapter 6, p. 113
“There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press… and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.”
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Censorship: For And Against, edit. Harold H. Hart, Hart Publishing Company, Inc., New York (1971), chapter 6, p. 119
“The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. 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 McCarthy (1916–2005) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chicago Tribune (10 September 1978)
“The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.”
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Time magazine (12 February 1979), p. 67
“It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.”
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From “Ten Commandments for New Hill Members,” in The Washington Post (4 January 1981), as cited in The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles and Axioms to Help You Cope With Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, …
“Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.”
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From “Ten Commandments for New Hill Members,” in The Washington Post (4 January 1981), as cited in The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles and Axioms to Help You Cope With Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, …
“There is only one thing to do — take it to the country!”
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On opposing the war in Vietnam, as quoted in The New York Times (11 December 2005)
“We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.”
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New York Times (11 December 2005)
“I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.”
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New York Times (11 December 2005)
“Isn’t it curious that they always played touch football and never football.”
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: McCarthy about Kennedy Brothers Gore Vidal, New Yorker" (24 November 1997)
“The maple tree that night Without a wind or rain Let go its leaves Because its time had come.”
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now it is certain. There is no magic stone. No secret to be found. One must go With the mind's winnowed learning.”
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The glove has been thrown to the ground, The last choice of weapons made. A book for one thought. A poem for one line. A line for one word.”
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Broken things are powerful." Things about to break are stronger still. The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.”
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have left Act I, for involution And Act II. There, mired in complexity I cannot write Act III.”
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source