George McGovern Quotes

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

Patriotism, Love, Deep

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

Faith, Politics, Confidence

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
George McGovern

Public, Private, Admit

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
George McGovern

Love, Old, Born

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

Free, Big, System

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

Time, Bad, Saying

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.
George McGovern

Tired, Sleep, Two

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

War, History, Political

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
George McGovern

America, Security, Nor

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

Good, True, Simply

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

Government, Enemy, Partner

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.
George McGovern

Peace, Justice, Thought

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

Truth, Mind, Others

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

Government, Country, Getting

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

War, Plan, Opposition

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
George McGovern

Truth, War, Two

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
George McGovern

Whole, Identity, Tragic

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
George McGovern

War, Debt, Growing

As an American, I want our forces to prevail.
George McGovern

American, Forces, Prevail

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

Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.
George McGovern

Husband, Wife, Tell

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.
George McGovern

Everyone, Economic, Risks

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

Security, National, Soft

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

Home, America, Nation

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: July 19, 1922

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