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Quotes of the Day for 29 March 2005 - Eugene McCarthy

Eugene Joseph McCarthy was born at Watkins, Minnesota on this day in 1916. After graduating from St. John's University he taught high school until the start of World War II, then served as an intelligence officer. After the war he ran for Congress and served five terms before running for the Senate in 1958. He developed a fierce opposition to the Viet Nam War and though he eventually lost to Hubert Humphrey it was "Clean Gene" that focused public opinion on the war and led to Johnson's withdrawal from the race in 1968. After that race, McCarthy retired from the Senate and went back to teaching and writing, but he did run (not always as a Democrat) in 1972, 1976, 1988, and 1992. Always a maverick, his campaigns were fun to watch.

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 only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

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

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.

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.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
     - All from Eugene McCarthy

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