9 Quotes by Joseph McCarthy

Our job as Americans and as Republicans is to dislodge the traitors from every place where they’ve been sent to do their traitorous work.

While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205.

I’m always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.

Any man who has been given the honor of being promoted to general and who says, “I will protect another general who protects Communists,” is not fit to wear that uniform, general.

Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down – they are truly down.

The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205 – a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.

American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.

An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.

Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.