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
book television radio
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.
men political sin
No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.
texas two california
There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance.... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate.
mean reform reorganization
Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.
liberty politics libertarian
The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
remember middle worst
Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.
country support president
We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.
freedom democracies-have differences
As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.
america fabric sound
Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.
war defense national-defense
We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.
party two people
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.
liberty bureaucracy threat
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
made
Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.