George McGovern Quotes
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
-
I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
-
We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
-
I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
-
I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
-
Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
-
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
-
Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
-
Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
-
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
-
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
-
I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
-
As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
-
Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
-
President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
-
There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
-
It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
-
I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
-
The one thing that has helped sustain my career as an actress and a comedian is that people generally view me as fundamentally stupid.
-
Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
-
There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.
-
Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
-
The failure to prosecute trivializes the acts constituting the crime, suggesting, in the case of President Bush, that torture, disappearance, cruel and inhuman treatment, abrogation of our treaties, violation of our laws on privacy, deception of the Congress, and subversion of the constitutional checks on war making are minor matters, easily overlooked. It means rejecting what used to be regarded as core American values, and even worse, sends a clear signal to future presidents that they may act with similar disregard for the law.
-
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
