If we are willing to concede the President dictatorial authority where we happen to agree with him, as liberals have tended to do over the years, we will have little chance of tying his hands when we do not....You will see why many of us in the Congress understand how Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his creation ran amok.
George McGovernI 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.
George McGovernI hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.
George McGovernIt can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.
George McGovernI am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
George McGovernI 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.
George McGovernWe seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come.
George McGovern