Malachy McCourt Quotes
There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.
McCourt, Malachy. Interview. Big Think, Freethink Media, 2010.
During the McCarthy era, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, was viciously attacked for being "soft on Communism:"
She was the first Black woman to be elected to Congress and was the first Black woman to actively campaign for the Presidency
The first Jew to run for the Vice Presidency on a major party ticket.
In 1877 Wasburn was dropped from the List of Ministers by the Unitarian Church. He had become very critical of organized and orthodox religion of all kinds.
Originally it was published in Boston under the name “A Columbian Patriot.”
The George W. Bush administration had a strong penchant for loyalty and would not fire Republican officials who had proved incompetent or unethical. In the midst of a disastrous Iraq War, there was a sex scandal in the House of Representatives whereby a Republican member was making homosexual advances to young pages. The House Republican leadership had tried to cover it up rather than protect the pages. Yet no one was fired even after the Congressman resigned and admitted it.
There were many national politicians who would publicly castigate homosexuals and yet were themselves gay and in effect were living two lives. For them “coming out of the closet” had a temporary meaning restricted to time and place and then they would go back “in the closet” for their public personae.
Malachy Gerard McCourt is an Irish-American actor, writer, one-time pub owner, and politician. He was the 2006 Green Party of New York candidate for governor in New York State, losing to the Democratic candidate Eliot Spitzer. He is the younger brother of author Frank McCourt.
