Eugene McCarthy Quotes - Page 2

In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.

You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country and insult Lyndon Johnson and nobody would punch you in the nose.

Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.

I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.

If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency.

I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.

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

Have you ever tried to split sawdust?

If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.

There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember.

A newspaper may somewhat arrogantly assert that it prints "all the news that's fit to print." But no newspaper yet has been moved to declare at the end of each edition, "That's the way it is," as Walter Cronkite does.

The mortician interviewing the corpses