George McGovern
George McGovern
George Stanley McGovernwas an American historian, author, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 July 1922
CityAvon, SD
CountryUnited States of America
white house presidential
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.
goal able millennials
I fully endorse the millennial goals to make (hunger) history, ... Those are big goals, but it's do-able.
truth lying thinking
So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.
united-states world able
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.
hands years humanity
The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is a greater moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time humanity has the instruments at hand to defeat this cruel enemy at a very reasonable cost. We have the ability to provide food for all within the next three decades.
dad ministers methodists
My dad was a Methodist minister.
wife south-dakota mets
I met my wife in South Dakota.
healthy normal should
I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
serious painful stranger
When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
novel
I never even had the time to read novels.
dad war boys
I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
winning thinking president
I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.
christian odds heritage
Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.
promise president troops
I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.