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
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.
america long tradition
There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.
country party men
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.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
thinking american-politics ifs
If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.
morticians corpses
The mortician interviewing the corpses
thinking pigs together
One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.
powerful broken stronger
Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.
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.