George McGovern Quotes

If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

I didn't used to care about living a long time. Not that I wasn't enjoying life, but I never sat around asking how I'd get to be 100, you know. But now I want to live long enough to see every school child in the world getting a good, nutritious lunch every day.

And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world for what is noble and just in human affairs. It is the time to live more with faith and less with fear- with an abiding confidence that can sweep away the strongest barriers between us and teach us that we truly are brothers and sisters.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.

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