Top 68 Quotes by George McGovern

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.

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

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.

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.

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

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

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.

I never even had the time to read novels.

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

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