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George McGovern

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

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George McGovern

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

George McGovern

My father was a clergyman and always said: ‘Hate the sin but love the sinner.’

– George McGovern

George McGovern

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

– George McGovern

George McGovern

People didn’t have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

– George McGovern

George McGovern

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

George McGovern

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it’s our partner.

– George McGovern

George McGovern

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

George McGovern

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

– George McGovern

George McGovern

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

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George McGovern

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

– George McGovern

George McGovern

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.

– George McGovern

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