Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that. "
George McGovern
No Regrets
Regrets
Vietnam War
Related Quotes:
" One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security. "
George McGovern
Security
National Security
America
" When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up. "
George McGovern
Lucky
Plane
Saw
" Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills. "
George McGovern
Well
Ought
Ills
" I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions. "
George McGovern
Eye
Admire
People
" When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. "
George McGovern
Small
Painful
Serious
" I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true. "
George McGovern
You
Feeling
Kind
" I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots. "
George McGovern
Tired
You Can Do It
Day
" I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket. "
George McGovern
Percent
Intention
I Am
" I never even had the time to read novels. "
George McGovern
Read
Novels
Never
" As an American, I want our forces to prevail. "
George McGovern
Prevail
American
Our
" 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. "
George McGovern
Growing
War
Growing Up
" People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war. "
George McGovern
American
Political
Stand
" I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. "
George McGovern
Normal
American
Like
" 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. "
George McGovern
War
Political
Moral
" I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets. "
George McGovern
Some
Over
Oil
" Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public. "
George McGovern
Confidence
Faith
Moral
" I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way. "
George McGovern
World War II
Refer
War
" My dad was a Methodist minister. "
George McGovern
Methodist
Dad
Minister
" Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.' "
George McGovern
Out
Old
Neighbor
" 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. "
George McGovern
Nutrition
Hope
Health
" I'm a movie buff. "
George McGovern
Movie
Buff
" The longer the title, the less important the job. "
George McGovern
Job
Less
Title
" Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner. "
George McGovern
Enemy
Government
Our
" It's nice not to have to worry about constituents. "
George McGovern
Worry
Nice
Constituents
" I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth. "
George McGovern
Birth
America
Home
" From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America. "
George McGovern
America
Places
Deception
" 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. "
George McGovern
You
Me
Wife
" The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity. "
George McGovern
Identity
Whole
Tragic
" I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf. "
George McGovern
Campaign
Persian
Plan
" No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public. "
George McGovern
Ashamed
Admit
Man