George McGovern Quotes

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.
George McGovern

Good, Thought, Old

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

Him, Percent, Intention

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

Character, Made, Liberal

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
George McGovern

War, Flamboyant, Frequently

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.
George McGovern

Winning, Him, Defeat

I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.
George McGovern

Full, Europe, Oil

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.
George McGovern

Deep, Another, President

I have to have a passion in my life.
George McGovern

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

Hope, School, Live

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.
George McGovern

Health, Hope, Whole

I met my wife in South Dakota.
George McGovern

Wife, South, Dakota

I move ahead, I live.
George McGovern

Live, Move, Ahead

I never even had the time to read novels.
George McGovern

Time, Read, Novels

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.
George McGovern

American, Accept, Promise

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.
George McGovern

Home, America, Call

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.
George McGovern

True, Feeling, Win

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
George McGovern

History, Study, American

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
George McGovern

Good, War, Hard

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

War, Against, Regrets

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.
George McGovern

Knowledge, Made, Wish

I'm a movie buff.
George McGovern

I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.
George McGovern

Said, Vote, Eye

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

American, Healthy, Normal

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
George McGovern

Freedom, Society, Choice

I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.
George McGovern

Time, Percent, Enjoyed

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: July 19, 1922

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