Top 68 Quotes by George McGovern

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.

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.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

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.

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

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 have to have a passion in my life.