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
running men politics
Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.
girl country school
When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.
eye cutting people
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.
white house presidential
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.
united-states world able
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.
believe promise accepting
I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.
children school long
I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.
mind spirit speak
I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
tickets intention dropping
I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
men good-man speak
It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
sleep tired years
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.
country thinking government
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
believe government enemy
Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
iraq america vietnam
One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.