George McGovern Quotes
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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
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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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I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
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I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
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I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.
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People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.
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Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.
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One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
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I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
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As an American, I want our forces to prevail.
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Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
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You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
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Now, I simply do what I want.
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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.
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At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.
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Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.
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When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
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My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
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I'm a movie buff.
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I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.
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I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.
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No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
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Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
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It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.