Joseph Mccarthy Quotes

• John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.

  Howard Dean

  Patriot, Descendants

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• I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Cold, Contests

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• Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Kings, Mirrors, Years

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.158, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph] McCarthy to now, I would have either been destroyed or reduced.

  Peter Biskind

  Years, Lucky, Politician

  Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.178, Macmillan

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• As a lifelong student of the world’s wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that “ridding the world of evil” is a goal very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha, or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by the Josephs Stalin and McCarthy and by Mao Tse Tung.

  David James Duncan

  Jesus, Evil, Goal

  "When Compassion Becomes Dissent". orionmagazine.org.

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• Senator Joseph McCarthy was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived.

  John Wayne

  Government, Senators

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• For all the talk about the bitterness and the partisanship in American politics, is it really that bitter and partisan? Think of American history. Think of Joseph McCarthy. Think of the New Left. Think of [George] McGovern. Think of [Ronald] Reagan. Think of George Wallace. We've had an awful lot of real extremism on both wings.

  William Kristol

  Real, Thinking, Wings

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

  David Horowitz

  Ideas, Viewpoints, Politics

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