If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency. Eugene McCarthy More Quotes by Eugene McCarthy More Quotes From Eugene McCarthy 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. Eugene McCarthy partytwopeople An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. Eugene McCarthy bureaucracythreatliberty 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. Eugene McCarthy partymencountry We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it. Eugene McCarthy supportpresidentcountry 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. Eugene McCarthy radiobooktelevision We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense. Eugene McCarthy national-defensedefensewar 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. Eugene McCarthy reorganizationreformmean Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible. Eugene McCarthy made As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences. Eugene McCarthy democracies-havedifferencesfreedom The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency. Eugene McCarthy libertarianlibertypolitics War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral. Eugene McCarthy moralmilitarywar Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact. Eugene McCarthy three-timesthreefacts 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. Eugene McCarthy californiatexastwo 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. Eugene McCarthy differencesstrongbelieve 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. Eugene McCarthy togetherpigsthinking It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. Eugene McCarthy democracypoliticalpeople 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. Eugene McCarthy voteracerunning 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. Eugene McCarthy smartstupidfootball Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope. Eugene McCarthy guytwentiesfeet Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road. Eugene McCarthy middleworstremember
