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
saves
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is the inefficiency
liberty bureaucracy threat
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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.
remember middle worst
Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.
liberty politics libertarian
The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
made
Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.
sawdust splits
Have you ever tried to split sawdust?
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.
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.
military war moral
War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.
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.
football smart thinking
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.
running secret way
If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency,
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.