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

“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

“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

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

“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

“On Obama’s watch, the Justice Department has enforced the laws in a politicized and racially discriminatory manner. It has, furthermore, filed and threatened vexatious lawsuits against sovereign states to obstruct their lawful execution of public policy—particularly, the enforcement of laws against illegal immigration and election fraud.”
― 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

“The mandate oozes hostility to religion (the sort of thing that, as detailed above, the president and his subordinates propose to ban when the religion in question is Islam).”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“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

“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 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

“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

“Lawlessness in the use of raw power, or “direct action,” is central to the training and practices of community organizers The dictatorial potential inherent in the power to enforce or not enforce the law makes impeachment a crucial check on presidential power Unmoored from the president’s constitutional duty to execute the laws faithfully, law is a weapon in an ideological crusade; the president becomes a ruler, not a public servant”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The HHS rule blatantly denies the breadth of First Amendment protection, and violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, under which Congress promotes First Amendment liberty by prohibiting government from unduly burdening religious freedom.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“Furthermore, after the Justice Department targeted a Fox News reporter for a criminal investigation under the Espionage Act, in a matter involving unauthorized disclosure of classified information, the attorney general provided Congress with misleading information about his knowledge and approval of the investigation. Specifically, he testified: With regard to the potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of [classified] material, that is not something I’ve ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be wise policy.14 It subsequently emerged, however, that the attorney general had actually approved a search warrant for the reporter’s private emails.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“Moreover, upon revelations that the Internal Revenue Service, under the president and his subordinates, had invidiously targeted conservative organizations for harassment and disparate treatment in the awarding of tax-exempt status (as further described in Article VII, below), the president’s subordinates at the Justice Department handpicked to run the investigation a prosecutor from the Civil Rights Division who is a partisan Democrat and a donor to both the president’s political campaigns and the Democratic National Committee.7”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“Most Berlin nightclubs aren’t like the American kind. Security is light, rules are lax. Generally there is no bottle service, no VIP section, and, Berghain aside, no velvet rope. In this respect, they bear little resemblance to, say, Studio 54, which, glorious as it may have been, begat a stratified style that metastasized into the models-and-bankers Maybach-and-Cristal rat race that deflected a generation away from the clubbing life in the U.S.”
― Andrew McCarthy, The Best American Travel Writing 2015

“Using the powers of the office of President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in disregard of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has willfully and repeatedly engaged in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The president’s maladministration, which erodes public confidence in the government’s commitment to enforce immigration law and to provide Congress and the public with complete and accurate information, has undermined the capability of Congress to negotiate and enact immigration legislation.10”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The rise of the administrative state over the last century has profoundly challenged the Constitution’s framework, but President Obama has quite intentionally undertaken to dismantle that framework.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The president and his subordinates have compelled citizens of the states of Florida and Arizona, and other citizens of the United States, to expend public funds on extensive litigation over Justice Department lawsuits seeking to prohibit those states from preventing illegal aliens from voting in elections.12”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“He and his subordinates have issued a visa to a self-proclaimed member of a formally designated Egyptian terrorist organization in order to enable that member of the terrorist organization to consult with administration officials at the White House, in violation of the federal laws that prohibit material support to terrorism.8”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment