George McGovern Quotes - Page 2

• I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

  George McGovern

  Character, Republican, Made

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• Durante una generación y más, el gobierno ha tratado de satisfacer nuestras necesidades multiplicando su burocracia. Washington ha cobrado demasiados impuestos a los ciudadanos y éstos han recibido muy poco a cambio. No es necesario centralizar el poder para resolver nuestros problemas.

  George McGovern

  Taken, Government, Order

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• Del secretismo y el engaño en las altas esferas, vuelve a casa, América. Del gasto militar tan despilfarrador que debilita a nuestra nación, vuelve a casa, América.

  George McGovern

  Military, Home, America

  George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  People, Shut Up, Social

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• One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.

  George McGovern

  Iraq, America, Vietnam

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• When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?

  George McGovern

  Adversity, Men, America

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• The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is a greater moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time humanity has the instruments at hand to defeat this cruel enemy at a very reasonable cost. We have the ability to provide food for all within the next three decades.

  George McGovern

  Hands, Years, Humanity

  George McGovern (2001). “The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time”, p.11, Rowman & Littlefield

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• El centro del establishment... nos ha llevado a la guerra más estúpida y cruel de toda la historia. Esa guerra es un desastre moral y político, un terrible cáncer que corroe el alma de nuestra nación.

  George McGovern

  War, Cancer, Political

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• 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

  Growing Up, War, Debt

  "George McGovern: Barack Obama, Democrats Need a Backbone". Interview with Kira Zalan, www.usnews.com. December 2, 2011.

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• Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood.

  George McGovern

  Blood, Responsible, Graves

  George Stanley McGovern (1977). “Grassroots: the autobiography of George McGovern”, Random House (NY)

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• Don't throw away your conscience.

  George McGovern

  Conciencia

  "George McGovern's rise in stature" by David S. Broder, The Telegraph, news.google.com. February 15, 1984.

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• Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

  George McGovern

  Biblical, Empathy, Neighbor

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• 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

  Mind, Spirit, Speak

  George Stanley McGovern (1974). “An American Journey: The Presidential Campaign Speeches of George McGovern”, New York : Random House

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• 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

  Thinking, Winning, Discredit You

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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

  Muerte, Mal, Morir

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• Apoyaría a un candidato presidencial que se comprometiera a tomar las siguientes medidas: ... Al final de la guerra del Golfo Pérsico, presionar para que se llegue a un acuerdo global en Oriente Medio y para que se establezca un "nuevo orden mundial" basado no en la Pax Americana, sino en la paz a través de la ley, con una ONU y un Tribunal Mundial más fuertes.

  George McGovern

  Guerra, orden, ley

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• Todo el mundo está expuesto a riesgos económicos de algún tipo.

  George McGovern

  Risk, Kind, Economic

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• I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

  George McGovern

  Justice, Fighter, Peace And Justice

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• The longer the title, the less important the job.

  George McGovern

  Jobs, Work, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Desde que era joven, quise presentarme a la presidencia de la peor manera posible, y lo hice.

  George McGovern

  Running, Men, Politics

  "George McGovern Dies at 90, a Liberal Trounced but Never Silenced" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.nytimes.com. October 21, 2012.

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• You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

  George McGovern

  Running, Nostalgia, Presidency

  "The Democrats On The Issues: Military Budgets And Women As Running Mates; Excerpts From Transcript Of Democratic Candidates' Debate". Democratic Candidates' Debate, www.nytimes.com. January 16, 1984.

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

  George McGovern

  Faith, Confidence, Political

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

  George McGovern

  War, Say Anything, Vietnam

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• Parece que estamos empeñados en salvar a los vietnamitas de Ho Chi Minh, aunque para ello tengamos que matarlos y demoler su país....No tengo intención de permanecer callado ante lo que considero una política de locura que, tarde o temprano, envolverá a mi hijo y a la juventud estadounidense por millones en los años venideros.

  George McGovern

  Country, Son, Years

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• 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

  Ganar, Pensar, Presidente

  George Stanley McGovern (1974). “An American Journey: The Presidential Campaign Speeches of George McGovern”, New York : Random House

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