Quotes by George McGovern

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 hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

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

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

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

My dad was a Methodist minister.