George McGovern

“I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.”

“The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.”

“I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.”

“I move ahead, I live.”

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

“Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'”

“When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.”

“There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.”

“I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.”

“One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.”

“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.”

“It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.”

“The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.”

“You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.”

“I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.”

“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.”

“As an American, I want our forces to prevail.”

“When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.”

“When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.”

“I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.”