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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
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
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
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
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
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
