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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

My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad. — George McGovern

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

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds. — George McGovern

Don't throw away your conscience. — George McGovern

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

George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around. — Karen DeCrow

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

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

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents. — George McGovern

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise. — George McGovern

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics. — George McGovern

I met my wife in South Dakota. — George McGovern

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

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

Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work. — George McGovern

My dad was a Methodist minister. — George McGovern

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

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

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up. — George McGovern

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

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. — George McGovern

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

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

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

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way. — George McGovern

Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down ... — George McGovern

If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq. — George McGovern

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it. — 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

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

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come. — 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

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

This total failure to address the diet/cancer relationship is most disturbing to ... those ... informed ... — 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 standard. — George S. 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. — George McGovern

I have to have a passion in my life. — George McGovern

The longer the title, the less important the job. — George McGovern

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

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

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

I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me. — George McGovern

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood. — George McGovern

I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time. — George McGovern

I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be. — George McGovern

We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost — George McGovern

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

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

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

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

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

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that. — George McGovern

Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern. — William F. Buckley Jr.

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections. — George McGovern

But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors. — George S. 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

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

I never even had the time to read novels. — George McGovern

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat. — George McGovern

I'm a movie buff. — George McGovern

Now, I simply do what I want. — George McGovern

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

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

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society. — George McGovern

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is. — George McGovern