George McGovern Thinking Quotations

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.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

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.

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.

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

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.

The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front; and they came away thinking that was me.