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
party thinking average
I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
choices healthy everyday
I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
tears wells ought
Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
becoming behavior aggressive
Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.
jobs work political
The longer the title, the less important the job.
country hurt heart
My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.
nice worry constituents
It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
good-life presidential campaigns
You never fully get over [losing a presidential campaign]. But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.
crowds dazzle masters
It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.
winning thinking discredit-you
I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.
military war failure
To 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.
home roots definitions
I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.
adversity men america
When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?
conscience
Don't throw away your conscience.