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.
More Quotes from Eugene McCarthy:
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
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
I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.
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
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
Eugene McCarthy
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