A biography for George McGovernhasn’t been written yet.
“Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.”
“I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.”
“I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.”
“At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.”
“Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.”
“I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.”
“No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.”
“From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.”