Top 68 Quotes by George McGovern

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.

I met my wife in South Dakota.

I have to have a passion in my life.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

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

My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.

My dad was a Methodist minister.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

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