1.
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.
Joseph McCarthy
Our mission as Americans and Republicans is to remove the betrayers from any location they have been dispatched to perform their treacherous acts.
2.
The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.
Joseph McCarthy
3.
Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.
Joseph McCarthy
Today we are locked in a decisive, climactic confrontation between atheistic communism and Christianity.
4.
The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because the enemy has sent men to invade our shores, but rather because of the traitorous actions of those who have had all the benefits that the wealthiest nation on earth has had to offer - the finest homes, the finest college educations, and the finest jobs in Government we can give.
Joseph McCarthy
5.
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.
Joseph McCarthy
While I cannot take the time to mention all the individuals from the State Department who have been recognized as members of an espionage organization and partakers in a Communist conspiracy, I presently possess a document indicating 205 such names.
6.
McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.
Joseph McCarthy
'McCarthyism is American patriotism in action.'
7.
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.
Joseph McCarthy
'Any officer who has been granted the privilege of being elevated to general and who states, "I will safeguard another general who safeguards Communists," is not worthy of donning that uniform, general.'
8.
Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down - they are truly down.
Joseph McCarthy
9.
I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.
Joseph McCarthy
I'm perpetually pursuing fantasies, Hoping to discover a small avian in vain.
10.
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.
Joseph McCarthy
American existence in bustling cities, is an unending onslaught of stimulation and stress; we tolerate it out of self-denial, away from materialism, precisely.
11.
An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.
Joseph McCarthy
An interrogator probed me concerning which book I considered most emblematic of the contemporary American female. My only reply was: Gustave Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary'.
