Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.
Meaning of the quote
Being in politics is a lot like being a football coach. You need to be smart enough to understand how the whole system works, but also a little bit silly or "dumb" to think that it's really all that important in the grand scheme of things. It's a game, just like football, and you have to know the rules and strategies to play it well, but at the end of the day, it's not as serious as people might think. This quote is saying that politicians need to have a balance of intelligence and a sense of perspective, just like good football coaches do.
About Eugene McCarthy
Eugene McCarthy was an American politician, writer, and academic from Minnesota who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. He ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968, challenging Lyndon B. Johnson on an anti-Vietnam War platform, and ran for president several more times after that, though he was never elected to the White House.
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