George McGovern Quotes (26 Quotes)

I still love to go back to Mitchell his home town and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.

This is an area where we ought to begin using the funds that Congress has authorized and appropriated for this purpose instead of leaving those funds lying on the table.

The longer the title, the less important the job.

There'll be no criticism of anybody that wants to jump out. I'll take you close to the field. All you have to do is jump out and pull the rip cord.

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.

We remember his sturdy idealism and his devotion to public good.

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

Eli had courage in seeking to halt ill-conceived and unnecessary wars that degrade our moral standing in the world.

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.

It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate.

It is appropriate to meet in a church because today we're talking about what is one of the clearly most deeply moral challenges of our time.

The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else.

Don't throw away your conscience.

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

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

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

I fully endorse the millennial goals to make (hunger) history, ... Those are big goals, but it's do-able.

My role tonight is to sit there and enjoy it and applaud at the appropriate places in case he says something wise,

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

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

I hope Howard Dean is like George McGovern. I thought I was a pretty good candidate in 1972. It's true that I lost to Richard Nixon in the general election by a big margin. But that wasn't my mistake. That was the mistake of the voters

that you only have a realistic hope of ending poverty if you can somehow curb the destruction and waste and the devastation of war.

I'd like to see a working partnership between people your age and people my age,

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.