Joseph McCarthy Quotes

Our job as Americans and as Republicans is to dislodge the traitors from every place where they've been sent to do their traitorous work.

Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.

While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205.

McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.

Any man who has been given the honor of being promoted to general and who says, "I will protect another general who protects Communists," is not fit to wear that uniform, general.

I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.

American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.

An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.