Eugene McCarthy

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Have you ever tried to split sawdust?

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.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

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

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist democracy must allow for compromise for accommodation and for the recognition of differences.

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