Mccarthy Quotes

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

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

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

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.

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

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

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.

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

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

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

John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.

I look forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor, Whip McCarthy and the entire republican conference as we repeal Obamacare, fight rampant job killing regulations, cut spending and help put folks back to work.

John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.