George McGovern
George McGovern

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

George McGovern
George McGovern

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

George McGovern
George McGovern

The longer the title, the less important the job.

George McGovern
George McGovern

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

George McGovern
George McGovern

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

George McGovern
George McGovern

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

George McGovern
George McGovern

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.

George McGovern
George McGovern

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.

George McGovern
George McGovern

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.

George McGovern
George McGovern

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

George McGovern
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
George McGovern

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.

George McGovern
George McGovern

When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.

George McGovern
George McGovern

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

George McGovern
George McGovern

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

George McGovern
George McGovern

I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.

George McGovern
George McGovern

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

George McGovern
George McGovern

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

George McGovern
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
George McGovern

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.