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 More Quotes by Eugene McCarthy More Quotes From Eugene McCarthy 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. Eugene McCarthy fabric sound america 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. Eugene McCarthy bars noses country Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest. Eugene McCarthy stronger powerful broken 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. Eugene McCarthy running book art The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. Eugene McCarthy political honor world I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed. Eugene McCarthy judgment instruments kind If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small. Eugene McCarthy american-politics ifs thinking There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics. Eugene McCarthy tradition long america Have you ever tried to split sawdust? Eugene McCarthy sawdust splits I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland. Eugene McCarthy snakes sarcastic want Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember. Eugene McCarthy campaigns say-anything might In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted. Eugene McCarthy get-involved aloof may 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. Eugene McCarthy news media doe The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle. Eugene McCarthy function republican battle I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel. Eugene McCarthy hospitality smell tears If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency. Eugene McCarthy secret running way The mortician interviewing the corpses Eugene McCarthy morticians corpses Saying we should keep the two-party political 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 The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. Eugene McCarthy The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency. Eugene McCarthy
