Quotes by George McGovern

About George McGovern:

George Stanley McGovern was an American historian, author, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election.
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I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

George McGovern

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.

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

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

George McGovern

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

George McGovern

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

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

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My dad was a Methodist minister.

George McGovern

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

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

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

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

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

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 Ho...

George McGovern

I have to have a passion in my life.

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

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

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

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

George McGovern

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

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Author Bio

  • NameGeorge McGovern
  • DescriptionAmerican politician, Congressman, senator, Democratic presidential candidate
  • AliasesGeorge Stanley McGovern; George S. McGovern
  • BornJuly 19, 1922
  • DiedOctober 21, 2012
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Diplomat; Historian; Autobiographer
  • AwardsDistinguished Flying Cross; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Air Medal; Gandhi Peace Award; Four Freedoms Award - Freedom From Want; World Food Prize