Top 100 Mcgovern's Quotes
#1. McGovern's Dietary Goals had turned the dietary-fat controversy into a political issue rather than a scientific one,
Gary Taubes
#2. What's the number-one thing people do on the Web? They read. Words and numbers are the raw material from which the vast majority of webpages are built. If reading is the primary activity on the Web, then readability is a primary function of Web design.
Gerry McGovern
#3. 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.
George McGovern
#4. 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.
George McGovern
#5. 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.
George McGovern
#6. There isn't any one big test or way to validate ourselves in the world. There's just a long, quiet process of finding our place in it
Cammie McGovern
#7. I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape.
Elizabeth McGovern
#8. Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper ...
George McGovern
#9. It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.
Elizabeth McGovern
#11. I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back. It's sad, perhaps, but not tragic, unless you dwell forever in the pursuit of their elusive affections.
Cammie McGovern
#12. Don't worry. Here's the thing I've learned about pregnancy. Everything feels like a crisis and everything turns out to be heartburn.
Cammie McGovern
#13. One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
George McGovern
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.
Elizabeth McGovern
#18. 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
#20. The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.
Hunter S. Thompson
#21. I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
George McGovern
#23. 'Legs are for men's pleasure, breasts are for babies'.' - Lib McGovern
Pat Frank
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
George McGovern
#28. We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost
George McGovern
#29. 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.
George McGovern
#30. It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.
George McGovern
#31. Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
George McGovern
#32. I fully endorse the millennial goals to make (hunger) history, ... Those are big goals, but it's do-able.
George McGovern
#33. It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil, ... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
George McGovern
#34. Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.
Cammie McGovern
#35. 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
#36. So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job.
Elizabeth McGovern
#37. 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.
George McGovern
#38. He stood in front of her and told her he'd come, not to climb her tower but to shelter it. In his clumsy way, he was like a prince who arrived with sweaty armpits and bad hair. At least I'm here, he might have said. That's better than nothing. And it was.
Cammie McGovern
#39. By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.
Elizabeth McGovern
#40. 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
#41. It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the most ill-informed and dangerous man ever to occupy the White House.
George McGovern
#42. This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.
Cammie McGovern
#43. Oh God, this is my fantasy! Where those just-friend boys suddenly realize they love me.'
'I don't know if this was like that.'
'What happened?'
He thought for a moment. 'Well. I realized I loved her.'
Hannah gasped. 'Oh God, that's so sweet.
Cammie McGovern
#44. But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.
George S. McGovern
#45. Now, how do you explain Obama's claim, that he can kill American citizens without due process? Well, he has his attorney general get up and say, "Well, it doesn't say in the constitution judicial process. It just says due process." Now that's a lawyerly diversion from the truth.
Ray McGovern
#46. You know, it's hard to say this, but I suspect that Obama is afraid either of blackmail potential or even worse. And he has referred to the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in this main saying, "don't you remember what happened to Dr. King?"
Ray McGovern
#47. 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.
George McGovern
#48. Form a small group. Five or six people, of people who think the way you do, and are willing to meet regularly, every week, and you will be surprised at what imaginative, gutsy thought and action comes out of that synergy. Takes a while, but there's something that every little group like that can do.
Ray McGovern
#49. You know, we may just be planting seeds for future generations, but that's okay. We can't be deterred from doing things, because we might be laughed at, because somebody might say, "What did you think you'd accomplish by turning your back on the secretary of state," or something like that.
Ray McGovern
#50. I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.
Elizabeth McGovern
#51. I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.
Elizabeth McGovern
#52. John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.
Colm Toibin
#53. Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'
Elizabeth McGovern
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. This was the ethos of the intelligence analysis directorate during most of the 27 years I spent there.
Ray McGovern
#57. Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.
George McGovern
#58. 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
#59. 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
#61. In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.
Jim McGovern
#62. This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing ...
George McGovern
#64. I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.
Elizabeth McGovern
#65. JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO SCARED TO TAKE ANY RISKS DOESN'T MEAN THE REST OF US SHOULD BE.
Cammie McGovern
#66. 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
#67. 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.
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
George McGovern
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
George McGovern
#75. 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
#76. I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George S. McGovern
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
George McGovern
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.
George McGovern
#88. Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down ...
George McGovern
#89. 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
#90. If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.
George McGovern
#91. A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives and our political process.
Jim McGovern
#92. 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
#93. Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
George McGovern
#94. 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
#96. 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
#97. I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.
Jim McGovern
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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