122 Quotes by George McGovern

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

But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.

You never fully get over [losing a presidential campaign]. But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

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

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

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.

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

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.