Eugene McCarthy Quotes

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.

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

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