We 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 McGovernThe 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.
George McGovernI was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
George McGovernIm sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern