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Bureaucracy
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The longer the title, the less important the job.
-George McGovern
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Death
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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
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Greatness & Great Things
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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
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Integrity
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No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
-George McGovern
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Vietnam
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It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate.
-George McGovern
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The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster -- a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
-George McGovern
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War
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I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
-George McGovern
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Books by and about George McGovern