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
curb ending hope poverty realistic somehow waste
that you only have a realistic hope of ending poverty if you can somehow curb the destruction and waste and the devastation of war.
candidate dean election elections general george good hope lost mistake nixon richard true voters
I hope Howard Dean is like George McGovern. I thought I was a pretty good candidate in 1972. It's true that I lost to Richard Nixon in the general election by a big margin. But that wasn't my mistake. That was the mistake of the voters
biblical empathy neighbor
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
mental-illness illness knows
I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.
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.
healthy normal should
I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
tears wells ought
Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
nice worry constituents
It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
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.
possibility peaking
At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.
taken government order
For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.
devotion idealism public remember
We remember his sturdy idealism and his devotion to public good.
life
I have to have a passion in my life.
time
I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.