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.

Quote by Eugene J McCarthy

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The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders...

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders...

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough...

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough...

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

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

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

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

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by...

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by...

I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.

I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.

Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the...

Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the...

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than...

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than...

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood,...

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood,...

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering,...

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering,...

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but...

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but...

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Partys candidate for...

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Partys candidate for...

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it...

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it...

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really...

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really...

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during...

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during...

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and...

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and...

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between...

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between...

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a...

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a...

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices

Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its...

Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its...