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
facts three said
Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact.
saves
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is the inefficiency
efficient greatest saves threat
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
running secret way
If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency,
strong believe differences
The difference between Carter and [Ted] Kennedy: Carter has this vague religion which he believes in strongly, while Kennedy has this strong religion which he believes in vaguely.
battle republican function
The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.
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.
sarcastic snakes want
I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.
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.