I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
Quote by George Mcgovern
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I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
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George Mcgovern Quotes
- I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.
- 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.
- 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.
- There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
- 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.
- 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.
- I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.
- 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.
- The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
- I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.
Best Quotes
- Some people just don't under stand you, Because that's their stand under you.
- I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
- Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
- I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
- Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
- The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity.
- I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
- When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.
- Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.
- There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.