George McGovern Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

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

“When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'”

“Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.”

“When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.”

“I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.”