Famous Quotes

Quotes by George Mcgovern

• 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.
• I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
• I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.
• 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.
• I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
• I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.
• I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
• I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
• I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
• I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
• 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.
• I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
• I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
• I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
• It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
• 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.