Eugene McCarthy
Eugene McCarthy
Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthywas an American politician, poet, and a long-time Congressman from Minnesota. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the U.S. Senate from 1959 to 1971...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 March 1916
CityWatkins, MN
CountryUnited States of America
say-anything might campaigns
Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember.
morticians corpses
The mortician interviewing the corpses
running race vote
The polls show that 10 percent of the public are ready to vote for me even though they don't know I'm running. We hope that figure won't drop when they learn I'm in the race.
media doe news
A newspaper may somewhat arrogantly assert that it prints "all the news that's fit to print." But no newspaper yet has been moved to declare at the end of each edition, "That's the way it is," as Walter Cronkite does.
smell tears hospitality
I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.
political honor world
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
people democracy might
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
country noses might
You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country and insult Lyndon Johnson and nobody would punch you in the nose.
running art book
I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by a few others, and also because my own professional background was academic, principally in the liberal arts. Good lawyers, I asserted in campaigns, can be found in the yellow pages of the telephone books. Good historians, or political and social philosophers, are not so easily found or classified.
kind judgment instruments
I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.
may get-involved irrelevant
In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.
sawdust splits
Have you ever tried to split sawdust?
military war moral
War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.
feet guy rope
Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.