Top 68 Quotes by George McGovern

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

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.

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.

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.

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

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

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

I met my wife in South Dakota.