Burnett R. Maybank Quotes

Le Fouille-Merde The Shit Stirrer

I am a whole lot of trouble.

I'm not the kind of guy a girl would take home to her mother. She'd kick the girl out and probably call the cops on me.

I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.

He dons his warpaint. He goes into his war dance. He emits his warwhoops. He goes forth to battle and proudly returns with the scalp of a pink Army dentist. We may assume that this represents the depth and seriousness of the Communist penetration in this country at this time.

I just will not—I refuse—to get into the gutter with that guy.

I got kicked out of school... I caused a lot of turbulence throughout those years.

The most unlovely political character in our history since Aaron Burr.

McCarthyism

… moral 5 o’clock shadow

In the immortal words of Dean Acheson, I will not turn my back on Joe McCarthy.

[Joseph R.] McCarthy was a fascist of the worst type. The only thing American about him was that he was born in Wisconsin.

If Senator McCarthy believed those things when he said them about the Senate Committee then there is pretty solid ground to say that he ought to be expelled from the Senate for moral incapacity. If he put those things in there honestly believing them to be true, then he has evidently suffered gigantic mental delusions, and it may be argued with much force, that he should be expelled from the Senate for mental difficulty.

His has a rigidity, an arrogance, and an obstinacy that will cause him to foment a thousand unfortunate incidents.

Resolved, that the conduct of the Senator from Wisconsin, Mr. McCarthy, is unbecoming a Member of the United States Senate, is contrary to senatorial traditions, and tends to bring the Senate into disrepute, and such conduct is hereby condemned.

Yes, but I am afraid he well get us into some quarrel.

… all of us … have slowly come to question his judgment and to fear acutely that his flair for the sensational, his inaccuracies and distortions … will lead him and us into trouble … it is no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder which will discredit the whole anti-Communist effort.

I think McCarthy was a menace... because he corrupted the ethics of American conservatives, and that corruption leads to the situation we have now. It gave the conservatives the habit of appeasing the forces of the hysterical right... and appeasing them knowingly, expediently. I think that was the original sin of the conservative movement, and we [conservatives] are all suffering from it.

You said something I didn't say. Now shove it.

She's got about as much respect as an iguana swimming around in your bathtub

… empires cannot be shattered and new states raised upon their ruins without disturbance. To create new boundaries is always to create new troubles. The one follows the other.

The junior Senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatred of uninformed and credulous people that he has started a prairie fire, which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

I just don't want their support. McCarthy said he apologized to the American people for supporting me; that is just the way I want it and I wish he would say it again.

... the Kremlin ought to put McCarthy on its payroll.

At Libertyville High, I was a bad student, chronic truant, and all-round incorrigible. I was forever being sent to the principal's office to be disciplined.