Quotes by Mccarthy, Mary

In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality >>

In violence we forget who we are. >>

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad >>

Quotations about Congress

I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would prop >>

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as >>

This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal ch >>

The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress -- these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear.

Mccarthy, Mary