Top 100 Mcgovern Quotes
#1. Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques.
Calvin Trillin
#2. Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#3. John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.
Colm Toibin
#5. George McGovern, for all his mistakes ... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon,
Hunter S. Thompson
#6. George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly.
Elliott Abrams
#7. Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.
Steven Pinker
#8. 'Legs are for men's pleasure, breasts are for babies'.' - Lib McGovern
Pat Frank
#9. Jimmy McGovern - I love his writing, and I'm a big fan of him and Alan Clarke.
Sean Bean
#10. The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.
Hunter S. Thompson
#11. What depressed me, I think, was that McGovern was the only alternative available this time around, and I was sorry I couldn't get up for it. I agreed with everything he said, but I wished he would say a lot more - or maybe something different. Ideas? Specifics? Programs? Etc.? Well
Hunter S. Thompson
#12. McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.
John G. Schmitz
#13. 'I think you ought to go to New York or Chicago or San Francisco or any city with character and vitality. You should go to work. This place is no good for you, Randy. The air is like soup and the people are like noodles. You're vegetating. I don't want a vegetable. I want a man.' - Lib McGovern
Pat Frank
#14. McGovern's Dietary Goals had turned the dietary-fat controversy into a political issue rather than a scientific one,
Gary Taubes
#15. George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.
Karen DeCrow
#16. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are beholden to industry. They always will be. And, the American people are fooled when they think that if you can just get McGovern instead of Humphrey, or if you can get a Democrat instead of a Republican, this will be the end of our problems.
Benjamin Spock
#17. McGovern couldn't carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate.
Spiro T. Agnew
#18. I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.
George McGovern
#19. I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.
Rob Lowe
#20. Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.
Hunter S. Thompson
#21. I would love to be in a Jimmy McGovern drama on TV, but there is no way he would ever ask me unless it would be to play a lawyer or something.
Toby Stephens
#22. I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George S. McGovern
#23. It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
George McGovern
#24. Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, "Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!"
George McGovern
#25. North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley ... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.
Elizabeth McGovern
#26. I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
George McGovern
#27. I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
George McGovern
#28. Do you ever wish you knew the answers on jeopardy ahead of time so you could win a million dollars too? A coach gives you that kind of edge. And instead of a TV game show you'll be winning at life.
Michael McGovern
#30. I have the manual, and the sad thing is that many of the techniques are exactly the same ones with a few enhancements by the US since World War II. So the role of our European allies and others has just really disappointed me greatly.
Ray McGovern
#31. I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.
Elizabeth McGovern
#33. This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing ...
George McGovern
#34. In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.
Jim McGovern
#35. 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.
George McGovern
#36. What's a strapless bra?" he finally asked.
"LIKE A TOURNIQUET FOR YOUR CHEST."
"Can you breathe if you're wearing it?"
"BARELY
Cammie McGovern
#37. Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.
George McGovern
#38. This was the ethos of the intelligence analysis directorate during most of the 27 years I spent there.
Ray McGovern
#39. You don't have to date me, just don't date her. Please, as your friend, I'm begging you not to date someone who doesn't appreciate you.
Cammie McGovern
#40. I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
Elizabeth McGovern
#41. Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'
Elizabeth McGovern
#42. JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO SCARED TO TAKE ANY RISKS DOESN'T MEAN THE REST OF US SHOULD BE.
Cammie McGovern
#43. It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.
George McGovern
#44. Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.
Elizabeth McGovern
#45. Beauty is highly desirable but simplicity and usefulness are the overwhelming fashion of our age. Just because it's beautiful does not mean it's useful.
Gerry McGovern
#46. I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.
Jim McGovern
#47. When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
George McGovern
#49. Stains were a patchwork of mistakes you couldn't get rid of. They showed the world your real self, even the parts you didn't want it to see.
Cammie McGovern
#50. Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
George McGovern
#51. It surprised me because she put it as well (or better) than I could have and made a simple point she didn't even intend: being disabled wasn't the main thing about her.
Cammie McGovern
#52. A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives and our political process.
Jim McGovern
#53. If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.
George McGovern
#55. Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down ...
George McGovern
#56. I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.
George McGovern
#57. My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who ... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war.
Ray McGovern
#58. Designing a website can be a bit like being a kid and inheriting a sweetshop. It's easy to get carried away. There are so many choices. A website can be like an attic that never fills up. Space is not the problem. Attention is.
Gerry McGovern
#59. As far as I can see women who have facelifts don't look younger, just weirder. You see them on screen with these tight, little porcelain faces - then the hand goes up to the face and it looks like it belongs to an alien. I find it really freaky.
Elizabeth McGovern
#61. I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
George McGovern
#62. And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay?
Ray McGovern
#63. Opinion is death. Opinion is plague. When it comes to web site management, trusting your gut is the last thing you should do.
Gerry McGovern
#64. You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
George McGovern
#65. Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.
George McGovern
#67. The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.
Elizabeth McGovern
#68. England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.
Elizabeth McGovern
#69. My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.
George McGovern
#70. In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.
Elizabeth McGovern
#71. When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".
Ray McGovern
#74. It was about acceptance, he thought. About realizing no one is perfect and no one can expect to change someone else. Which
Cammie McGovern
#75. In the marketplace, design is your greatest differentiator once everything becomes comparable in terms of technology and quality.
Gerry McGovern
#76. Honestly, I am always shocked when I see myself in the mirror because I feel exactly the same as I did when I was 18 getting off the plane to go to Juilliard in New York.
Elizabeth McGovern
#78. Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood.
George McGovern
#80. I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
George McGovern
#81. I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.
Elizabeth McGovern
#82. For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
George McGovern
#84. I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.
Elizabeth McGovern
#87. There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.
Elizabeth McGovern
#88. I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.
Elizabeth McGovern
#89. I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration to stop its failed policy and bring our troops home.
Jim McGovern
#90. Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.
Cammie McGovern
#91. You do what you know is good, because it's good, and then you have a certain peace of mind, saying, you've been an activist in a constructive way.
Ray McGovern
#93. The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher standard.
George S. McGovern
#94. We are at a crossroads over how the federal government in Washington and state legislatures and city councils across the land allocate their financial resources. Which fork we take will say a lot about Americans and our values.
George McGovern
#95. Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be ... Chiswick!
Elizabeth McGovern
#96. How do we professionally manage content? We don't. We shouldn't manage content in the same way that we shouldn't manage technology. Content and technology are merely a means to an end. What is the end? The end is the task the customer wishes to complete. That is what we should manage.
Gerry McGovern
#97. That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.
Elizabeth McGovern
#99. Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.
George McGovern
#100. Now the big danger is to avoid doing anything, unless you have a surety, unless you have an assurance that you'll be successful. It's not about being successful. It's about being faithful. The good is worth doing, because it's good. And who knows what the results will be?
Ray McGovern
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