Top 68 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.

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

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

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

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.

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