George McGovern Quotes

American - Politician | July 19, 1922 - October 21, 2012

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

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

George McGovern

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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

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My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.

George McGovern

HeartCountrySometimesMy OwnOwn

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

George McGovern

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

George McGovern

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If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.

George McGovern

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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

WinningThinkDefeatNowDefeated

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

George McGovern

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There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

George McGovern

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It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

George McGovern

FightWarToughDeepFeelYou

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

George McGovern

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