Top 180 McCarthy Quotes & Sayings

The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.

McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation.

Melissa McCarthy makes everything better.

When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.

I'm not Cormac McCarthy, but I can get my point across in a thousand words.

Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.

Kevin McCarthy is one of my best friends.

Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.

Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

Kevin McCarthy is a good man.

I have a big mouth, and I never met a petition I didn't like, so of course in the McCarthy days I got in trouble.

Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it.

[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.

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

The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.

Joseph McCarthy and the John Birch Society launched an anti-Communist crusade that won the support of millions of Americans in the 1950s.

Melissa McCarthy - she's so funny, and she keeps bringing it.

I love everything that Cormac McCarthy has written.

I read "The Group" by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.

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.

I think it's better to be too early and disturb a few people - but have other people say it was necessary - than to do it way after the fact. We shouldn't forget that Charlie Chaplin did a movie about Hitler while Hitler was alive, and Peter Sellers in Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece Dr. Strangelove was during the McCarthy time, where everybody was a communist and McCarthy was flipping completely out. I think it's important to have a movie like Postal now, where we are on the peak of the Iraq War, on the peak of terrorist attacks, where everything is actually happening.

Jenny McCarthy has used her celebrity and sex appeal to attract attention to autism. And while no one questions McCarthy's determination and passion, many scientists have debunked her anti-vaccine message and her claims that a gluten-free diet can provide a cure.

We've seen senators like Ted Cruz before. The historical comparison most commonly invoked involves Joe McCarthy, whose scurrilous red-baiting crusade in the early 1950s shattered the careers of innocent public servants and alienated McCarthy from his fellow senators, but also made him a folk hero on the right. Jesse Helms comes to mind too.

The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion was against McCarthy.

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

I didn't like Jenny McCarthy when I first met her.

McCarthy shakes his head in agreement with the referee.

We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image.

This Republican Kevin McCarthy makes Hillary [Clinton] the victim.

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

The Clinton camp has been able to project that kind of neo-McCarthy hysteria: that Russia is responsible for everything.

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.

At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.

McCarthy generally, as an individual, was a liberal. He was, in economic philosophy and a lot of other things, extremely liberal.

Mick McCarthy will have to replace Cascarino because he's quickly running out of legs.

I don't know if you can ever steal a scene from Louis C.K. or Melissa McCarthy. I think that's kind of impossible.

The one that I've always wanted - and I have Scott Rudin in my way blocking it - is 'Blood Meridian,' which Cormac McCarthy has offered to adapt into a screenplay.

The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy... he's got a lot of medical round him

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.

It was through the Hammerheads that I got a route into the professional game, via a trial at Sunderland from Mick McCarthy and then an invitation to come back to Carlisle in 2004.

When Melissa McCarthy came out with 'Bridesmaids,' all of a sudden you saw a plus-sized woman who had three dimensions, was not an appendage, was pivotal to the plot.

But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled, unintelligent demagogue.

When I made Spartacus during the McCarthy Era, we were losing our freedom. It was an awful, awful way. McCarthy saw Communists everywhere, in every level of government and they concentrated on Hollywood and especially on Hollywood writers.

Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far too aggressive in attacking our way of life. Administrator McCarthy should be apologizing to Missourians. EPA aggression has reached an all-time high, and now it must be stopped.

I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan and have read every book of his.

I think Donald Trump has done everything he can to take us back to policies like we had during the McCarthy years.

I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard.

I have nothing but the greatest respect and affection for Kevin McCarthy.

Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.

In the '97 pilot season [of Will & Grace ], I got the male lead on The Jenny McCarthy Show.

I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.

Deftly engineered. McCarthy challenges us all - not just engineers - to take responsibility for the ways in which we all increasingly engineer the world.

The portrayal of Senator Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't cowering in fear during the McCarthy era. They were systematically undermining the nation's ability to defend itself while waging a bellicose campaign of lies to blacken McCarthy's name. Everything you think you know about McCarthy is a hegemonic lie. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis.

I have a lot of respect with Mike McCarthy and for what he's done.

I've written a lot of books in my time, and to write a book about Joe McCarthy and have some of the major media paying attention, I'm not used to that.

McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.