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 Quote

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.
- Eugene McCarthy Quote

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
- Eugene McCarthy Quote

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

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

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 Quote