George McGovern

“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.”

“Now, I simply do what I want.”

“I have to have a passion in my life.”

“I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.”

“I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.”

“It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.”

“People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.”

“My dad was a Methodist minister.”

“I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.”

“I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.”

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

“I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.”

“I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.”

“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.”

“The longer the title, the less important the job.”

“I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.”

“My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'”

“I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.”

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

“If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.”