Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY Compassion is contempt with a human face.
JOHN MCCARTHY Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
JOHN MCCARTHY My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.
JOHN MCCARTHY He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
JOHN MCCARTHY The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautifu...
JOHN MCCARTHY Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. I...
JOHN MCCARTHY The SCLC draft has a whole mile of good intentions.
JOHN MCCARTHY We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and...
JOHN MCCARTHY Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
JOHN MCCARTHY Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boardi...
JOHN MCCARTHY Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.
JOHN MCCARTHY Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolenc...
JOHN MCCARTHY It is not as if they named a plumber as chairman of the Fed.
JOHN MCCARTHY My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.
JOHN MCCARTHY An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
JOHN MCCARTHY The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautifu...
JOHN MCCARTHY The euro/dollar hasn't technically broken out, but it seems to have broken the recent pattern,
JOHN MCCARTHY Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise,...
JOHN MCCARTHY Captain Yates was awesome. This was the best charter I ever went out on.
JOHN MCCARTHY Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.
JOHN MCCARTHY Do you wish to imprison the Native Americans in a re-invented primitive culture?
JOHN MCCARTHY With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.
JOHN MCCARTHY It's just a pissing contest, but unfortunately the contestants never seem to run out of piss.
JOHN MCCARTHY To have a report on something and then to have it denied is obviously shaking up the market.
JOHN MCCARTHY Young tyrants are more genocidal than old tyrants - with the exception of Khomeini.
JOHN MCCARTHY The numbers were obviously better than expected. It's possible we could see a little further dollar ...
JOHN MCCARTHY If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his argumen...
JOHN MCCARTHY The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust a...
JOHN MCCARTHY Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It ca...
JOHN MCCARTHY When I hear the word Heidegger I reach for my axe. He may have swiped it.
JOHN MCCARTHY There were a lot of rumors going around about comments that Mr. Greenspan made. One was regarding th...
JOHN MCCARTHY Most of the dollar's gains are based on the sell-off in the Australia and New Zealand dollars.
JOHN MCCARTHY When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.
JOHN MCCARTHY Instead of swiping or dipping a card, you'll be able to just leave it in your wallet. It's going to ...
JOHN MCCARTHY Whenever I hear a dog continually barking, my reaction is one of relief-that it's not my dog making ...
JOHN MCCARTHY Dollar buyers ran out of gas once we couldn't break through $1.2750 and 106 in dollar/yen and as a c...
JOHN MCCARTHY Dollar buyers ran out of gas once we couldn't break through $1.2750 and 106 in dollar/yen and as a c...
JOHN MCCARTHY Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.
JOHN MCCARTHY The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act o...
JOHN MCCARTHY The data wasn't necessarily bad. It just assisted the bit of dollar selling that's been going on tha...
JOHN MCCARTHY Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you abso...
JOHN MCCARTHY In this book masculine pronouns embrace not only the feminine but also the robotic.
JOHN MCCARTHY When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
JOHN MCCARTHY Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
JOHN MCCARTHY Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.
KEVIN MCCARTHY Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.
MELISSA MCCARTHY To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's wh...
MELISSA MCCARTHY As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.
KEVIN MCCARTHY I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo...
KEVIN MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t...
EUGENE MCCARTHY One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ...
EUGENE MCCARTHY In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol...
MARY MCCARTHY ...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag...
MARY MCCARTHY Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
CHARLIE MCCARTHY We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
MARY MCCARTHY My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and a...
CORMAC MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ...
ALICE MCCARTHY The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go...
ALICE MCCARTHY They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ...
ALICE MCCARTHY I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin...
ALICE MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith â€Ã...
ALICE MCCARTHY Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith ...
ERIN MCCARTHY It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?”

“Because I love you. Because ...
ERIN MCCARTHY Then don't. I can't help you. They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
CORMAC MCCARTHY Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the ambe...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
CORMAC MCCARTHY The happy ending is our national belief.
MARY MCCARTHY Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy.
JOE MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
CHARLIE MCCARTHY Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
MARY MCCARTHY A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito...
MARY MCCARTHY This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the ai...
EUGENE MCCARTHY In violence we forget who we are.
MARY MCCARTHY Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascinati...
MARY MCCARTHY The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the g...
EUGENE MCCARTHY Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
MARY MCCARTHY In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality.
MARY MCCARTHY Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
COLMAN MCCARTHY In violence, we forget who we are
MARY MCCARTHY Love, no matter how it’s expressed, is still love. We all have flaws, and so our love will be flaw...
ERIN MCCARTHY Congress
MARY MCCARTHY There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game...
EUGENE MCCARTHY The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a r...
CORMAC MCCARTHY I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the ...
JENNA MCCARTHY My belief is you have one chance to make a first impression.
KEVIN MCCARTHY The man you married is yours to have and to hold for the rest of ever, even if he starts chewing tob...
JENNA MCCARTHY What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that...
JENNA MCCARTHY Now, as husbands go, I have to admit I did all right. Joe is unquestionably handsome, doesn't le...
JENNA MCCARTHY I have my once-a-month nachos, but it's soy cheese and turkey chili on it, so it's somewhat ...
JENNY MCCARTHY All other trades are contained in that of war.

Is that why war endures?

No. It...
CORMAC MCCARTHY There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage.
MELISSA MCCARTHY He's a pig and I don't allow livestock in the house.
ERIN MCCARTHY He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the wo...
CORMAC MCCARTHY And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm ...
ANDREW MCCARTHY He knows the energy you expend from trying to get from point A to point B to point C. And when someb...
ANDREW MCCARTHY If you are serious about stopping people before things take off, then necessarily your evidence is g...
ANDREW MCCARTHY If you think about it, it's obvious why that's so. They have at their disposal the information which...
ANDREW MCCARTHY The charging ammunition we had was awful.
ANDREW MCCARTHY Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital.
ANDREW MCCARTHY I was so hung over for that whole movie ... I'm thinking, 'God, I got a headache. I am just dying he...
ANDREW MCCARTHY Like in 'Pretty in Pink' for example, people said, 'Oh, he's so sensitive and lovely in that movie,
ANDREW MCCARTHY He knows the energy you expend from trying to get from point A to point B to point C. And when someb...
ANDREW MCCARTHY He knows the energy you expend from trying to get from point A to point B to point C. And when someb...
ANDREW MCCARTHY There's a staircase on the first floor of the Capitol that I walk every day. It's made of ma...
KEVIN MCCARTHY He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it...
CORMAC MCCARTHY No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardina...
EUGENE MCCARTHY At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
CORMAC MCCARTHY He didn't say a lot so I tend to
remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in o...
MARY MCCARTHY The edge of a black hole, the event horizon, is a boundary that marks the point of no return. Once a...
KEVIN MCCARTHY At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and...
JENNY MCCARTHY It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to g...
JENNY MCCARTHY If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.
JENNY MCCARTHY Keystone will deliver 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada, North Dakota, and Montana to Gulf ...
KEVIN MCCARTHY I'm a conservative. I believe in the idea of freedom and liberty, but more importantly, look at ...
KEVIN MCCARTHY I will embarrass my kids to their core. I will threaten to show up in hot pants and a tube top. Thei...
MELISSA MCCARTHY Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away...
MARY MCCARTHY Ben and I have absolutely nothing to do with the Hollywood that's all actors and the Sunset Stri...
MELISSA MCCARTHY If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when yo...
MARY MCCARTHY The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint patter...
CORMAC MCCARTHY And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers']...
CORMAC MCCARTHY No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are...
JENNY MCCARTHY Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of pa...
JENNY MCCARTHY The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative...
MARY MCCARTHY The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America...
KEVIN MCCARTHY It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside locke...
JENNY MCCARTHY Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package tha...
KEVIN MCCARTHY I am not a princess, I don't want to be referred to as a princess - I find that super creepy.
MELISSA MCCARTHY This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY The Rolling Stones were aware of our plan which was to simply lower the volume on his microphone at ...
BRIAN MCCARTHY CBS, which will carry both in 2007, requested the change for programming purposes.
BRIAN MCCARTHY We make every best effort to police the activity and try to stop it before we have to take legal act...
BRIAN MCCARTHY A league meeting at this juncture would have been premature.
BRIAN MCCARTHY Licensees are gearing up to flood the market with Super Bowl merchandise featuring the two teams.
BRIAN MCCARTHY This provides us an opportunity to extend our reach and bring added value to the fans. After we nail...
BRIAN MCCARTHY As we get better from a technology standpoint, many organizations seem to believe that technology so...
BRIAN MCCARTHY We want to be associated with partners that portray the NFL in the best light.
BRIAN MCCARTHY We want to be associated with partners that portray the NFL in the best light and (with games) based...
BRIAN MCCARTHY We agreed upon it earlier this week. They were fine with it. If we had missed it, then ABC had five ...
BRIAN MCCARTHY The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Sup...
CORMAC MCCARTHY If I'm still here in this locker room, it's fine with me. I'll wash the towels, I don't care. I'm at...
BRANDON MCCARTHY I knew coming up here my role was that they put me where they need to. If that's in the bullpen or s...
BRANDON MCCARTHY It's kind of chaos and, for me, confusion because I've never been a part of one of these in the big ...
BRANDON MCCARTHY It's probably the most nervous I've ever been on a baseball field in God knows how long.
BRANDON MCCARTHY It was a little tougher getting there because I didn't feel as sharp command wise. But I felt that I...
BRANDON MCCARTHY I go with his gut feeling. In most situations, it works out.
BRANDON MCCARTHY Again, a lot depends on what happens this year, who does what. But that's a good situation for me. I...
BRANDON MCCARTHY I know him a little bit, and he seemed like a calm, level-headed kid. I was kind of surprised when I...
BRANDON MCCARTHY We swept a few teams this year ? it just kind of sucks that it was our turn to get swept at the end ...
BRANDON MCCARTHY Basically I have to throw wherever they put me, and if I'm successful, then hopefully it makes a goo...
BRANDON MCCARTHY I wanted something I could use in the civilian world, that would benefit me in the Air Force, and th...
BOB MCCARTHY You'd have to. If he did come back in two weeks we know he'd be fit. The way football is now we're g...
BOB MCCARTHY It's good for the state to take it on. This is going to firm up what we are doing.
BOB MCCARTHY What happened tonight, that couldn't happen any other way, is that face-to-face communication occurr...
BOB MCCARTHY Trent is playing great football. The big plus is that he's match hardened and can play halfback, whi...
BOB MCCARTHY Lockyer is the incumbent five-eighth and captain and he hasn't done anything wrong in my eyes to los...
BOB MCCARTHY I didn't think it was necessary,
BOB MCCARTHY I don't know about that.
BOB MCCARTHY We need to ratchet up our assistance. The next six weeks are going to be decisive. Last year, half a...
BOB MCCARTHY It is a borderline situation, and more and more children are slipping into this category. Aid worker...
BOB MCCARTHY I wore white kabuki makeup, had blue-black hair. At one point, I shaved an inch and a half around my...
MELISSA MCCARTHY Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throw...
MELISSA MCCARTHY For restaurants that have a minimum gratuity charge on large groups, the IRS will now count those ti...
KEVIN MCCARTHY There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. ...
KEVIN MCCARTHY Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the w...
EUGENE MCCARTHY Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the gam...
EUGENE MCCARTHY Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
CHARLIE MCCARTHY I think there's so many points of view that you want to make sure your stories are being told fr...
MELISSA MCCARTHY When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only lan...
KEVIN MCCARTHY I started a deli when I was 19 years old. Kevin O's. The sandwiches at Kevin O's were a litt...
KEVIN MCCARTHY When gross public debt exceeds 90 percent of GDP, economic growth tends to decline considerably.
KEVIN MCCARTHY I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I ...
GINA MCCARTHY What we're trying to do is get people ... to become more active in working with their legislators ba...
CAROLYN MCCARTHY Hey Den! My God, Dennis. Look at me now. Who would've ever thought?
CAROLYN MCCARTHY This failed as far as I'm concerned,
CAROLYN MCCARTHY I believe that the people of the United States as a whole care about this issue very much, and it's ...
CAROLYN MCCARTHY With the high demand for long term care and in the wake of the worst natural disaster in history, cu...
CAROLYN MCCARTHY Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportuniti...
CAROLYN MCCARTHY It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't...
CAROLYN MCCARTHY The rebuilding of the Gulf Coast should create economic opportunities for its residents, not an oppo...
CAROLYN MCCARTHY make it easier for criminals to buy guns at gun shows.
CAROLYN MCCARTHY Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own...
CAROLYN MCCARTHY Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, ...
JENNY MCCARTHY America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and...
KEVIN MCCARTHY You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
CORMAC MCCARTHY Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution...
ERIN MCCARTHY It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has bec...
MARY MCCARTHY The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
EUGENE MCCARTHY And you know what the worst thing was?
The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard w...
JACK MCCARTHY It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
EUGENE MCCARTHY How we fund transportation in this country is broken. You all pay a gasoline tax, right? Well, cars ...
KEVIN MCCARTHY