50 Quotes by Eugene McCarthy

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.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is the inefficiency

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact.