Quote #23

The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after the battle.

More from Eugene McCarthy

  1. 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.
  2. The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
  3. 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 …
  4. No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.
  5. Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.
  6. It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
  7. I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.
  8. In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelavent or get involved and get corrupted.

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