George Mcgovern

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.

Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood.

The nature of freedom of choice is that some people will misuse their responsibility and hurt themselves in the process. We should do our best to educate them, but without diminishing choice for everyone else.

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

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

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

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

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.