Top 68 Quotes by George McGovern

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

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

At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

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

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.

Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.