George McGovern

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills. ”

I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ”

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. ”

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American. ”

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well. ”

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. ”

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public. ”

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. ”

I never even had the time to read novels. ”

I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time. ”