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" I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House. "

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" 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

" I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth. "

" My dad was a Methodist minister. "

" 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 hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. "

George McGovern

Good

Say

" I move ahead, I live. "

" I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government. "

" One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security. "

" Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior. "

" Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner. "

" 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. "

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

" I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American. "

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

George McGovern

Free

Dope

" 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 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. "

" The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity. "

" I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time. "

" It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well. "

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

" When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. "

" When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day. "

" I met my wife in South Dakota. "

" 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

Wife

" The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. "

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

George McGovern

Normal

American

" 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. "