I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
George McGovern

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

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

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
George McGovern

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

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

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

The longer the title, the less important the job.
George McGovern

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
George McGovern

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