George McGovern

“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.”

“It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.”

“When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.”

“I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.”

“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”

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

“Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.”

“I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.”

“Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.”

“I'm a movie buff.”

“It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.”

“I met my wife in South Dakota.”

“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.”

“I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.”

“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.”

“My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.”

“Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.”

“I never even had the time to read novels.”

“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.”

“The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.”