George McGovern Quotes

"I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket."
- George McGovern
(Related: Intention)

"The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity."
- George McGovern
(Related: Identity)

"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."
- George McGovern
(Related: Love, Patriotism, Policy, Acceptance, Blind, Country, Deep)

"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
(Related: Politics, Faith, Act, Confidence, Public)

"No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public."
- George McGovern
(Related: Man, Public)

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
- George McGovern
(Related: Men, Old)

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

"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
(Related: War, History, Soul, Cancer, Disaster, Eating, Nation)

"You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing."
- George McGovern
(Related: Time, Saying, Sense)