George McGovern Quotes
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I met my wife in South Dakota.
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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 am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
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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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For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
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I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.
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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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My dad was a Methodist minister.
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Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
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No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
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I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
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I never even had the time to read novels.
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The longer the title, the less important the job.
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I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
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I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.
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If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.
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It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
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I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
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Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'