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

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

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.
Marvin Minsky

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.
Warren Farrell

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Ken Follett