George McGovern
George McGovern
George Stanley McGovernwas an American historian, author, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 July 1922
CityAvon, SD
CountryUnited States of America
views enemy neighbor
It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.
war fighting peers
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.
regret war guy
I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
choices healthy everyday
I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
thinking iran iraq
If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.
justice fighter peace-and-justice
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.
war drug would-be
It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.
faith confidence political
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
integrity truth-is strategy
Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.
mental-illness illness knows
I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.
pay negative election
Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.
war saws lucky
When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
cancer war political
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.
biblical empathy neighbor
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'