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Eugene McCarthy

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


— Eugene McCarthy


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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.


— Eugene McCarthy


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Have you ever tried to split sawdust?


— Eugene McCarthy


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


— Eugene McCarthy


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


— Eugene McCarthy


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


— Eugene McCarthy


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


— Eugene McCarthy


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The evident intention to escalate and to intensify the war in Vietnam and on the other hand the absence of any positive indication or suggestion for a compromise or for a negotiated political settlement. S. Despite strong showings in several primaries — indeed he won more votes than any other Democratic candidate — McCarthy garnered only 23 percent of the delegates at the 1968 Democratic National Convention largely due to the control of state party organizations over the delegate selection process.

In the 1968 presidential election McCarthy was the first candidate to challenge incumbent Lyndon B. He served in the U.

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