Clergyman's

Broken things are powerful.""
Things about to break are stronger still.
The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.
- Eugene McCarthy

There is only one thing to do — take it to the country!
- Eugene McCarthy

a light rinse"" would be sufficient. Said in response to George Romney's claim that he had been ""brainwashed"" by the US military leaders in Vietnam. It is not clear where or when exactly the quote was supposedly said. See this entry from MediaMythAlert.
- Eugene McCarthy

a light rinse"" would be sufficient. Said in response to George Romney's claim that he had been ""brainwashed"" by the US military leaders in Vietnam. It is not clear where or when exactly the quote was supposedly said. See this entry from MediaMythAlert.
- Eugene McCarthy

We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.
- Eugene McCarthy

We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.
- Eugene McCarthy

The maple tree that night
Without a wind or rain
Let go its leaves
Because its time had come.
- Eugene McCarthy

The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. 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.
- Eugene McCarthy

The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. 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.
- Eugene McCarthy

I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.
- Eugene McCarthy