Quote #16

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

More from Eugene McCarthy

  1. In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelavent or get involved and get corrupted.
  2. It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
  3. 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 importa…
  4. Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.
  5. As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognitio…
  6. No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.
  7. One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each …
  8. I have left Act I, for involution And Act II. There, mired in complexity I cannot write Act III.

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