Top 68 Quotes by George McGovern

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

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

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.

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

The longer the title, the less important the job.

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 seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

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

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

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