Eugene McCarthy Art Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.