Explore Quotes by George Mcgovern

I'm a movie buff.

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.

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

I met my wife in South Dakota.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

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.

I have to have a passion in my life.

I never even had the time to read novels.

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

I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.

I didn't used to care about living a long time. Not that I wasn't enjoying life, but I never sat around asking how I'd get to be 100, you know. But now I want to live long enough to see every school child in the world getting a good, nutritious lunch every day.

We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward. Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world. And let us be joyful in the homecoming.

I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a 'new world order' based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court.