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"Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road."
"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty."

Eugene Joseph McCarthy was an American politician, writer, and academic who represented Minnesota in both houses of the United States Congress for over 22 years, first in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959, then in the U.S. Senate from 1959 until his resignation in 1971. A member of the Democratic Party, McCarthy sought the party's presidential nomination in the 1968 presidential
"Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road."
"It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember."
"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think its important."
"Have you ever tried to split sawdust?"
"There is only one thing to do — take it to the country!"
"Im kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed."