Quotes by George McGovern

• The longer the title, the less important the job.
• I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
• The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
• The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
• Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
• No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
• I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
• I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
• 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.
• 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.