George McGovern Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

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

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

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

I’m what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

It’s nice not to have to worry about constituents.

We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it….I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come.

You don’t run for the presidency out of nostalgia.