George McGovern Quotes

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

    "Recruit George McGovern to Speak -at the REPUBLICAN Convention!" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 16, 2012.
  • The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

  • 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?

  • Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.

  • It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.

    "George McGovern Elects Innkeeper" by Andi Rierden, www.nytimes.com. September 3, 1989.
  • There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

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  • The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is a greater moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time humanity has the instruments at hand to defeat this cruel enemy at a very reasonable cost. We have the ability to provide food for all within the next three decades.

    George McGovern (2001). “The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time”, p.11, Rowman & Littlefield
  • Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, "Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!"

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

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

    George Stanley McGovern (1977). “Grassroots: the autobiography of George McGovern”, Random House (NY)
  • 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.

  • I never even had the time to read novels.

    "George McGovern Elects Innkeeper" by Andi Rierden, www.nytimes.com. September 3, 1989.
  • A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

    George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.142, Simon and Schuster
  • It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.

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  • Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

    George Stanley McGovern (1974). “An American Journey: The Presidential Campaign Speeches of George McGovern”, New York : Random House
  • If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.

  • 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

  • At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.

    "George McGovern Dies: The Democrat from South Dakota Was Hollywood's First Candidate" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 21, 2012.
  • I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

  • Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

    George McGovern (2011). “What It Means to Be a Democrat”, p.13, Penguin
  • For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

  • Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

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

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  • I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.

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

    "George McGovern Dies at 90, a Liberal Trounced but Never Silenced" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.nytimes.com. October 21, 2012.
  • From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle lands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick - come home, America.

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    George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.166, Simon and Schuster
  • I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

    "That Time George McGovern Hosted “SNL”…" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. October 22, 2012.
  • Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.

  • I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

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    George McGovern

    • Born: July 19, 1922
    • Died: October 21, 2012
    • Occupation: Historian