George McGovern
George McGovern
George Stanley McGovernwas an American historian, author, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 July 1922
CityAvon, SD
CountryUnited States of America
men blood would-be
A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
tears wells ought
Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
becoming behavior aggressive
Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.
jobs work political
The longer the title, the less important the job.
country hurt heart
My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.
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My dad was a Methodist minister.
nice worry constituents
It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
war say-anything vietnam
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
party thinking average
I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
running nostalgia presidency
You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.
war two iraq
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.
europe oil yards
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.
hands years humanity
The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is a greater moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time humanity has the instruments at hand to defeat this cruel enemy at a very reasonable cost. We have the ability to provide food for all within the next three decades.
truth lying thinking
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.