#so

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing. ↗

— George McGovern

#bad #just #know #our time #polite

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation. ↗

— George McGovern

#away #cancer #center #cruelest #disaster

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command. ↗

— George McGovern

#command #i #make #mind #others

Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too. ↗

— George McGovern

#caused #divorces #every #few #her

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security. ↗

— George McGovern

#been #being #democrats #national #national security

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

— George McGovern

#boy #dakota #good #grew #here

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. ↗

— George McGovern

#believed #could #defeat #defeated #democrat

I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets. ↗

— George McGovern

#combat #defended #europe #factories #flew

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program. ↗

— George McGovern

#child #enough #every #fed #hope

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. ↗

— George McGovern

#banished #been #bring #health #hope