Andrew McCarthy > Quotes

“There's something in the act of setting out that renews me, that fills me with a feeling of possibility. On the road, I'm forced to rely on instinct and intuition, on the kindness of strangers, in ways that illuminate who I am, ways that shed light on my motivations, my fears.”
― Andrew McCarthy, The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down

“As is often the case when I travel, my vulnerability -- like not knowing what the hell I'm going to do upon arrival -- makes me more open to outside interactions than I might be when I'm at home and think I know best what needs to be done. On the road, serendipity is given space to enter my life.”
― Andrew McCarthy, The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down

“Travel does this: it creates space that allows thoughts and memories to intrude and assert themselves with impunity. Smells and sights, the quality of light, the honk of a horn -- can all act as touchstones when least expected.”
― Andrew McCarthy, The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down

“...among a certain generation of people, the work I did as a young man will forever burn brightest... more importantly, it is the memory of the work that is so valuable to people. Because in the memory of those movies exists a touchstone of youth, of when life was all ahead, when the future was a blank slate, when anything was possible.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“Willful and repeated violation of the Constitution is the textbook example of high crimes and misdemeanors.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The intrepid traveler Freya Stark once said, “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” The uncomplicated joy of meeting a new day with no past, with no plan, and with no one in the world knowing where I am can be compared only to waking up on Christmas morning when I was a child. It’s the closest I have ever come to understanding the word “freedom.”
― Andrew McCarthy, The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down

“Republicans, as well as Democrats committed to our constitutional framework, should fearlessly marshal the administration’s frauds, obstructions, and violations of law. They should demand transparency and accountability for the lies, the broken oaths, the betrayal of the rule of law, and the damage wrought—including lives not only devastated but lost due to the administration’s recklessness.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“My dear poor boy, the truth today is not the truth tomorrow.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“No one here knows who you were before. You are free to reinvent yourself. You”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“The Framers reasoned that Congress, faced with a president who usurps legislative prerogatives, would fight back by cutting off money the president would need to carry out the usurpation.5”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“Far from faithfully executing the laws, he and his subordinates are undermining the laws in granting administratively the amnesty Congress has declined to grant by statute.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The president and his subordinates have also taken the position that the federal government has a veto over a church’s choice of its ministers and employees. The Supreme Court rejected this offensive claim in a 9–0 ruling that even included the two justices appointed to the high court by the president.26”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“In addition, he and his subordinates have repeatedly, systematically and willfully provided Congress and the American people with false information about matters of grave public concern.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The president has willfully defrauded the American people in the enactment and implementation of Obamacare. In addition, he has unilaterally and unlawfully amended and “waived” the statute’s terms—guided by his knowledge that timely, lawful application of the deeply unpopular law would be devastating to his party’s electoral prospects and would have made him a one-term president.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“Berlin is to electronic music what Florence was to Renaissance art: crucible, arbiter, patron. Credit for this could go as far back as Bismarck; the city owes its peculiar fertility as much to the follies of statesmen and generals as to any generation of ardent youth. Citizens have spoken and sung for many years of the “Berliner Luft”—“the nervous, endlessly quivering Berlin air,” as Conrad Alberti wrote in 1889, “which works upon people like alcohol, morphine, cocaine, exciting, inspiring, relaxing, deadly.”
― Andrew McCarthy, The Best American Travel Writing 2015

“Sometimes things happen, we live with their result, and then occasionally, a long time distant, we try to make sense of them.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Brat: An '80s Story

“Having turned a deaf ear to the Iranian people in 2009 when they were being crushed while attempting to rise up against their totalitarian regime—the leading state sponsor of jihadist terror52—President Obama reached out in 2013 to the Iranian regime’s new front man, President Hassan Rouhani.53”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The president and his subordinates have willfully undermined and prejudiced the rights of the American people to equal protection under the law and to engage in free political speech and association. He and his subordinates have employed the awesome powers of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the interest of partisan politics, selectively harassing conservative groups opposed to the president’s policies and denying them the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“Congressional Democrats want the current president to use the enormous raw power vested in his office by Article II to achieve statist transformation. If he does so, they will support him. They do not insist that he comply with congressional statutes—which must be consistent with the Constitution in order to be valid, and thus may reflect the very constitutional values the left is trying to supplant.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The president and his subordinates willfully defrauded the American people, including investors in the public securities exchanges, in connection with Solyndra, a solar energy enterprise that he and his subordinates subsidized with over half a billion taxpayer dollars despite obvious indication that the venture was not viable and would collapse.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“Being happy is surpassed only by the ability to recognize and appreciate that happiness in the moment.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain

“Techno emerged in the early to mideighties in and around Detroit, at the hands of black middle-class DJs who for some reason idealized the glamour and suavity of European electronic pop and Italo disco, as it reached them via GQ and the radio DJ who called himself the Electrifying Mojo. They brought some rigor and a hint of Motown to it and created an industrial-sounding music that was funky, futuristic, and kind of arch—evoking the auto plants that were putting these kids’ parents out of work.”
― Andrew McCarthy, The Best American Travel Writing 2015

“The Obama dream is the nightmare about which Alexis de Tocqueville warned: a comparatively soft tyranny, in which the individual serves an “immense and tutelary” state and its centrally planned, punctiliously regulated society, enjoying only as much liberty as the government deigns to grant him.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The president has willfully defrauded the American people in the enactment and implementation of Obamacare.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The power to enforce the law, which carries with it the equally salient power not to enforce the law, is a president’s most imposing domestic weapon, rivaled in importance only by the awesome authority inherent in a president’s status as commander in chief of the U.S. Armed Forces.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The Iranian government aptly regards this agreement as a “surrender” by the United States. Rouhani publicly boasted in a tweet that “world powers surrendered to Iranian nation’s will.”57 Moreover, Iran’s foreign minister insists that, contrary to Obama administration claims, the regime “did not agree to dismantle anything” in its nuclear or ballistic program.58”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The president and his subordinates at the Department of Justice have used the executive’s awesome law enforcement power, including its access to vast sums of public money for conducting investigations and filing lawsuits, to intimidate the states into complying with Obama administration policies, including when those policies conflict with the states’ lawful powers, prerogatives and obligations under the Constitution and state law.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“Mason fixed on betrayal of the president’s fiduciary duty and oath of allegiance to our system of government, saying that “attempts to subvert the Constitution” would be chief among the “many great and dangerous offences” beyond treason and bribery for which removal of the president would be warranted.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“After the massacre, the worst domestic terrorist attack since 9/11, General George Casey, army chief of staff, bleated that a “greater tragedy” than the mass murder and maiming would be “if our diversity becomes a casualty.” The administration fraudulently labeled the killings of U.S. troops who were about to deploy to a war zone as “workplace violence,” not international terrorism—a finding that denied Purple Hearts to the soldiers killed and wounded in the attack.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“At home, the administration consulted with “experts” it has refused to identify in purging information about Islamic supremacism—the ideology that drives our enemies—from materials used to train law enforcement, intelligence, and military personnel responsible for our security. The obsession with bleaching the Islam out of Islamic terrorism reached mind-boggling lengths with the administration’s refusal to brand the Fort Hood massacre—in which thirteen Americans, mostly military personnel, were killed and dozens more wounded—as an act of terrorism.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment