#ect

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

— George McGovern

#capacity #confidence #faith #intellectual #kind

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. ↗

— George McGovern

#discredit #easier #feeling #get #i

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society. ↗

— George McGovern

#civil #civil society #come #essential #everyday

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections. ↗

— George McGovern

#campaigning #convinced #elections #negative #off

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior. ↗

— George McGovern

#becoming #behavior #ever #guise #left

I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die. ↗

— Rose McGowan

#because #die #dying #exactly #expect

Of course, we wrote the songs accordingly and performed and recorded them that way. At that time, we really thought it was right, but you know, seen in retrospect, it made the album sound forced, and not really great. ↗

— Mark McGrath

#album #course #forced #great #know

I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#front #got #i #keep #keep moving

I'm coming up on 40 next year, and after making so many records and doing music for so long, I'm looking for a change and a different perspective. And every now and then, I think I have something I want to say. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#change #coming #different #different perspective #doing

More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern. ↗

— James McGreevey

#anything #being #child #concern #deliberately