George McGovern Quotes
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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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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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At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.
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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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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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My dad was a Methodist minister.
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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 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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Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
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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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I never even had the time to read novels.
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
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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 did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
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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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I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.
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It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
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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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Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
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The longer the title, the less important the job.