I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
George McGovernIt is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the most ill-informed and dangerous man ever to occupy the White House.
George McGovernWe have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost
George McGovernTo those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.
George McGovern