George McGovern Quotes
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There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
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I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.
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I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.
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I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.
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When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
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Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.
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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
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It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
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From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.
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I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.
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When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.
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I have to have a passion in my life.
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You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.
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I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
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I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
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The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
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My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.
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I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
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The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
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I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
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The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
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I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.
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I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.
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I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.