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.

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• George McGovern:

  I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.

• George McGovern:

  The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country de

• George McGovern:

  I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

• George McGovern:

  My dad was a Methodist minister.

• George McGovern:

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

• George McGovern:

  I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

• George McGovern:

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

• George McGovern:

  I move ahead, I live.

• George McGovern:

  I met my wife in South Dakota.

• George McGovern:

  I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep.