George McGovern Quotes:
I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
George McGovern
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
George McGovern
My father was a clergyman and always said: ‘Hate the sin but love the sinner.’
George McGovern
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.
George McGovern
I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.
George McGovern
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction ‘Love the neighbor as thyself.’
George McGovern
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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.
George McGovern
Source: BBC
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.
George McGovern
I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
George McGovern
One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America’s national security.
George McGovern
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
George McGovern
There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
George McGovern
I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
George McGovern
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.
George McGovern
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.
George McGovern
Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it’s our partner.
George McGovern
I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there’s a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don’t think that’s necessarily true.
George McGovern
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
George McGovern
When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
George McGovern
You don’t run for the presidency out of nostalgia.
George McGovern