George McGovern Quotes

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.

As an American, I want our forces to prevail.

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

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

I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

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.

You never fully get over [losing a presidential campaign]. But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

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.

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

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

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

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.

I never even had the time to read novels.

I met my wife in South Dakota.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.