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I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.

— Eugene McCarthy

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Isn’t it curious that they always played touch football and never football.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

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

We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.

Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.

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