Quotes By George McGovern

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

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.